October 10: Letting Go #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep

Capturing Rainbow Butterflies (2020) bokeh photograph by Maria L. Berg
Capturing Rainbow Butterflies (2020) bokeh photograph by Maria L. Berg

OctPoWriMo

Read for inspiration and craft

Recommended poem: Pandemonium by Geoff Anderson

Online journal: The Collagist

Spotlight Poem from OctPoWriMo Day

Mind and Heart by MK Vecchitto. Beautiful poem. I enjoyed her W’s and emotive visuals.

Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt is Letting Go

Forms Tyburn or CinqTroisDecaLa

Searching the void

heightened
lightened
brightened
frightened
reaching for a heightened, lightened sight
exploration brightened, frightened flight

Writober

For today’s visual prompt, I chose Milk by Steve Stålenhag.

micro-story : They thought it was funny that the new virtual reality headsets looked like horse heads. Once they were plugged in they stayed in their new world, forgetting all else. They collapsed in the streets, unaware that they were dehydrated and starving.

Read for inspiration and craft

Horror fiction story My Boy Builds Coffins by Gary McMahon

Horror online magazine Nightmare

NaNo Prep

Yesterday’s write-in’s prompts were about my character’s happy places. Where they go to relax and what would happen if those places were taken away or didn’t exist anymore. I’m going to continue exploring these ideas, writing more detailed descriptions of these settings and what they mean to different characters.

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