Today I set out to capture the insignificance in significance and the significance in insignificance. To make something significant is to give it importance, consequence, meaning. Giving part of an image significance is a matter of composition. An object can be significantly larger or smaller than the other elements. It can be the brightest, or sharpest element. To make elements insignificant, they would all be the same, dull, uninteresting.
I enjoyed playing with my jagged line filters in the mirrorworld yesterday, so I thought I would take them outside this morning. However, the significance of this morning’s rain made my plans insignificant. Instead I added the wired fairy lights to the mirrorworld.
2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4
Today’s prompt is to write a catching poem.
I Couldn’t Catch the Insignificance
of the overwhelming coincidence
forcing us all to timidness
with a whiff of strawberries
disturbed tantalizing exquisiteness
revealing the insipidness
of flavor memories
unaware strangers gorged with willingness
now electrical skittishness
with the guilt we carry
entangled in past-present incidence
avoided through keen diligence
like coal-mine canaries
we face forces of wild vindictiveness
recognizing coincidence
deep in our libraries
I couldn’t catch the insignificance
of the fates’ cruel impishness
among the strawberries
This morning I watched another lesson of R. L. Stine’s Masterclass. He said that to be really scary you need to write in first person POV. This got me thinking that after my opening scene, I could switch to my main character’s POV. It’s still early enough in the writing that I could try it and not have to change too much. That could be a good warm up exercise this morning to see if I want to tell this story with first person for my main character and third person for my B story.
Experience Writing 
I’m writing in the first person right now. I’ve found that it can build suspense.
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