American Sentences

The first writing  exercise in Ordinary Genius is entitled "American Sentences".  American sentence is a poetic form created by a man named Allen Ginsberg who, basically, believed in the mantra "condense, condense, condense", but felt that the haiku format did not work as well in English as it did in Japanese.  And thus the American sentence was born: one sentence, seventeen syllables.
Here are a few I came up with:

• We looked down on skyscrapers and suddenly the world seemed minuscule.
• She lusted to travel to new exotic cities she had read about.
• His staccato kisses filled her with wicked desire, always.
• The lights of twinkling galaxies shined below in celestial glory.
• Trickling lines of nostalgic melody transport to a gilded past.

Welcome!

Hallo!  This is my new blog.  If you were looking for updates on my life, click here.  I decided to switch urls on these blogs to make that one more personal and indicate that this is my brand spanking new writing blog.
Why a writing blog you ask?  Well, last spring I took a Creative Writing class and I had four textbooks: poetry, play writing, fiction, and creative nonfiction.  Two of these books were used a little and the other two not at all, but they were cheap ($16 a piece is cheap compared to the ridiculous prices of most textbooks) so I decided to keep them and work on my own rather than selling them back to the bookstore.
And now here we are, a month and a half shy of it being an entire year since I decided that and well, I haven't really done anything with them.  But this will soon be remedied.  I'm going to start by reading Kim Addonizio's Ordinary Genius; a book about writing poetry.  Throughout the book there are several exercises, and once I've finished them, I'll type them out here. (What?  I prefer writing things out with pencil and paper still, so what?)
I've been in a funk lately; nothing has been inspiring me to write.  I've misplaced my Creative Mojo and I hope in doing this, and keeping myself accountable by writing here, I can find it again.  And hopefully you'll enjoy reading it along the way.