Today I was inspired to continue my ribbon and shadow experiment. I thought about how a “little white lie” can turn into a big lie. I also thought about how each time Pinocchio lied his nose grew.

November PAD Chapbook Challenge

The prompt is to write a special poem.

For today’s poem I revisited the mesostic method I first tried on Tuesday. I thought it would be a fun way to explore what I find special. I typed my journal pages from this morning into the Mesostic Poem Generator using SPECIAL as the spine word. I had it come up with seven mesostics hoping seven would be lucky, then selected and arranged the lines into my poem.

Today's Special


           the iSsues that will
          come uP with
               pEn to page working through gore
      i started Cold
          and whIle up there tried 
               hAven't had what   
    spine my toiLet

at random momentS common
          day caPturing
              thE have in my head 
     and pain i Could do
    when source Is my own word 
          there Are seven seasons it brings
  the garden my Lunch from the joy

NaNoWriMo

Today I’m starting a new chapter. I’m going to play with a zoom in, like the beginning of a film when the view starts really wide and flies toward a city, then into the city, then zooms in on the main character in action. I’m going to play around with doing that with words: starting with an omniscient POV, then zoom closer and closer until the reader sees what my character sees, experiences his perceptions, and then gets inside his head. It should be fun.

Happy Reading and Writing!