Guy Savage on his blog His Futile Preoccupations has given Writing is Easy a wonderful review. You can read it here
http://swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/writing-is-easy-by-gert-loveday/
Some other reviews are at
https://www.librarything.com/work/14521205/reviews/104198531
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Just spent a weekend at a writers’ conference, not quite like the “Writing Is Easy” workshop, and kept a sharp eye out for familiar faces. I didn’t spot either Marcus or Lillian, so they must have been otherwise engaged. Sadly, William did not give our cooks any chef-ly advice, but the setting, the instructors and the company made up for it.
Marcus and Lilian have definitely given up the workshop gigs. I hope the advice was just as helpful and that you can bring yourself to cut some of the dames out of your work.
“Kill your darlings, ” they say. But Raymond had problems with that.
dames created to
admire my godlikenesses –
I should do them in?
A haiku with dames in it- that’s a first.
Suggests numerous possibilities for your next serial. There do seem to be some very racy haiku/senryu out there, to build or inspire, if needed.
Leave it with us
Is that the same as “leave it to us?”
Here is a link to a haiku noir contest. Not sure what response they would get as haiku (or senryu) but they are all 5-7-5 and very noir. https://pankhearst.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/haiku-noir-contest-winners/.
Otherwise, a search for haiku with dames very quickly leads down funky trails.
Linguistic niceties…no, on reflection it is not quite the same as “leave it to us”, which suggest we’ll actually do something about it as opposed to mulling it over.
Will definitely pursue these noir haiku