Sherlock Holmes: 60 for 60

And here we go again with Round 5! For this round we’re going in a rough chronological order.


This Sunday, 3rd April, we'll be posting our 60 word ficlets for A Study in Scarlet, Pt 1, Chaps. 1-7.

An army doctor is back in London: alone, wounded, recuperating from illness, and looking for accommodation more suited to his limited funds.

And so, Dr. John H. Watson is introduced to Mr. Sherlock Holmes...

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

Each Sunday we will also have our weekly discussion post, where we discuss a topic inspired by the canon story. And there’s Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page too - any poems written about this week’s story can be left as a comment on her post. A new contributor to the page will be suggesting poems for us to read too and hopefully they will give us added inspiration. Also, Mrs. Hudson informs me that the poetry form being revisited this week is the cinquain.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments.) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday. But don’t worry if you can’t join us then - we stay open for posting and commenting all week!

Greetings to you all, and welcome to my very first poetry page!

I hope that every week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.


This week my featured form is the sedoka.


Shadow Poetry gives the following definition:


The sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A sedoka, a pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.


As an example, here is my humble attempt:




As I say, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

acrostic poetry, clerihew, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by A Study in Scarlet in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

OK - here we go again, with Round 4 of 60 for 60! And this time we’re going in the order the stories were first published.

This Sunday, 18th January, we'll be kicking off by posting our 60 word ficlets for A Study in Scarlet.

An army doctor is back in London: alone, wounded, recuperating from illness, and looking for accommodation more suited to his limited funds.

And so, Dr. John H. Watson is introduced to Mr. Sherlock Holmes...

If you haven't tried 60 for 60 before, full information - including our schedule - can be found on our profile. But in essence: you read ACD's story and then you write a 60 word story inspired by it! You don't have to post a story every week - just join in whenever you feel like it.

On Sunday we will also be having our customary weekly discussion post, and Mrs. Hudson is making her debut with her poetry page. Simply leave any poems inspired by this week’s story as a comment on her post.

You can choose one activity, or have a go at everything. Or just come along and read the 60s! (And have a chat in the comments ^^) All options are absolutely fine.

Hope to see you on Sunday ^^

Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G




Poor G. Lestrade:
His psyche is scarred.
“Rat-faced” and “ferret-like” do the ego-prickin’.
Lestrade ripostes that at least he’s “no chicken”.