OctPoWriMo

Read for inspiration and craft

While looking for a poem to share for today, I found this really interesting article from National Writing Project called Channeling Emotion: One Way to Make Poems Out of Feelings

Recommended poem: Any Morning by William Stafford
Light Betrays by Krysta Lee Frost

Online journal: Wildness Journal

Spotlight Poem from OctPoWriMo Day 17

Into the Wild by payal

Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt is Relax and Process Feelings

Forms Diatelle or previous form didn’t try (I went with the Channeling Emotion exercise I mentioned above)

A Glow in the Darkness

Curiosity is throwing a lantern
into midnight’s halitosis
an unsettling smell that tickles
like a crawling tick
she picks locks on dream diaries
though sometimes she doesn’t like what she finds
her twitchy fingers touch everything
collecting memories of textures and heat
like a campfire under a full moon
an antidote for darkness’s cover

Curiosity scoots her chair forward
aluminum legs scrape along the floor
she leans forward expectantly
bright eyes wide, eyebrow raised
she loves to dip a toe in the water
though she’ll more often dive right in
the questions burst with rapid fire
digging for desired answers until
the source of the well runs dry
like dismembering the eclipse of ignorance

Holding her torch high,
she plunges further into the void
the bad breath left by forbidden fruit
still stimulates her senses
the entries in stranger’s journals
may reveal the reviled
a risk she takes on her eternal quest
for all that’s new, she darts
through every cracked door,
ignoring boundaries, leaping fences
breaking through limits to find
a new shadow to light

Writober

For today’s visual prompt, I chose this image of giant flying man-o-war jellyfish.

micro-story : She knew they didn’t mean to kill. They were wild and new to flight. Their highly poisonous tentacles, swimming through the mist, were but sensing their environment, drawn to her as she was to them.

Read for inspiration and craft

Horror flash fiction story Bakhtak by Ross Jeffery

Horror online magazine Idle Ink

NaNo Prep

Yesterday, I got a good start on my list of sound collecting for my sci-fi soundtrack. I recorded some sounds outside, some piano, selected bass effects and played with some riffs. I practiced the drums, but decided to start with other percussion instruments. Music is definitely one way I relax and process my feelings, so I’ll keep playing with my ideas for music that hopefully will inspire my writing.

The other thing that helps me relax and process my feelings is reading, so I just stocked up on ebooks from my library. I borrowed titles on writing sci-fi and a whole lot of science fiction stories. I also picked up other books on writing, especially focused on plot because I want to have my outline ready for November first.

This week’s NaNo Prep 101 theme is Find, Schedule, and Manage Your Time. These days, time just flies by for me, even on strangely slow days. I have yet to accomplish my butt-in-seat goals, so I’ll keep trying. Like I’ve said, listing my goals and publishing them here tends to help me get things done, so this week, I will be in my office, typing, by 9:30 am each morning.