As part of the Writers’ Platform Building Crusade, we have weekly Crusader Challenges. This week’s a getting to know you exercise. Although we have 300 words to bloviate in, I had a couplet come to me last night, and just knew I had to write a limerick.

Running was not my best gambit.
I’d prefer a fuliguline habit*.
          I’m (mostly) kind to others,
          and have only brothers,
whom our parents replaced with a rabbit.

Yes, this is why I write prose. Poetry requires such an incisive editorial blade. I’m afraid I’ll just stab it. Erg… (You can see why that line got cut from the poem…)

(Actually, once upon a time, I was the poetry editor of a fairly big site. But I didn’t have to judge or write poetry, so no one was injured.)

Something I mentioned about myself isn’t what you might call . . . “true.” Can you guess what it is?

Monday (I hope) we’ll jump into how to infuse your writing with emotion!

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