🌻 My Creative Writing Club 🌻

The summer season of my Creative Writing Club has come to its inevitable end. And it was one of the best seasons ever. The participants were awesome and the engagement was off the charts! Look:

Our Google Doc is 129 pages or 52,966 words long! We have 579 active comments (and counting) - and I mean just Google comments in the special boxes on the right. Plus, there are hundreds of reactions in the forms of hearts and stars.

I want to give you a sneak peak of - and an opportunity to participate in - our last session, in which we studied some fancy stylistic devices.

1️⃣ Polysyndeton = repetition of conjunctions in close succession

For example: "I'm so sorry for missing the deadline for the writing - so much was happening to me, it's ridiculous! My brother's birthday party turned into a disaster, and then my dog suddenly had a puppy, and my best friend moved to Belgrade, and the rain kept pouring down, and my head was exploding... Anyway, I truly am sorry." (By Lana Gagaeva)

2️⃣ Zeugma = the use of a word to modify two or more words in such a way that it applies to each in a different sense

For example: "When he emigrated, he left his job, his apartment and his heart in Saint-Petersburg. He took a flight to New-York early in the morning, never to return, carrying only a small backpack and a dead weight in his soul." (By Anna Skopina)

Your turn. Write a comment about your love for writing - or the lack thereof - using polysyndeton or zeugma or both.

And stay tuned for the next season of my Creative Writing Club. It is free and will remain free because I want to give everyone an opportunity for a creative outlet in the company of like-minded writers. 💜

Image by the wonderful Anna Skopina 🌻

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