Writober Is Coming

October is a very busy month here at Experience Writing. It’s October Poetry Writing Month (OctPoWriMo), Writober daily flash fiction challenge, the daily Halloween Photography Challenge, and it’s the month of preparing to write a novel during November’s NaNoWriMo. Though Writober was the name of the flash fiction challenge, I’m using it as the name for the month here at Experiencing Writing, and all of the challenges during October.

Last year, I took on creating the prompts for OctPoWriMo along with the image prompts for Writober, and the daily word prompts for the photography challenge since each of my favorite challenges appeared to be abandoned, and I wanted them to continue. We explored our fears through our art and writing. It was fun and definitely challenging, but not exactly organized on my part.

This year, I’ve organized the prompts for all three events to work together in an exploration of the five universal fears: ego death, separation, loss of autonomy, mutilation, and extinction. We’ll spend almost a week with each universal fear, exploring and facing different aspects of each while studying the tools of writing from letters, to syllables, to words, to phrases, to sentences, lines, and stanzas and forms while looking at many rhetorical devices along the way.

I have also added a couple of weekly challenges. For musicians, I’ve come up with Tunetober: weekly sound and music prompts. And for fabric artists, I’ve come up with Sewtober: weekly prompts for sewing projects.

Some inspiration for everyone. I’ll have an early-bird prompt tomorrow for those of us excited to get started.

We’re going to have so much fun!

Tell your friends!