#Writober Day 5: Treating Myself to a New Mirrorworld for Fall

Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is Treat. I treated myself by taking down the make-shift mirrorworld in the bathroom, and building a new one in the closet. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt is “be yourself.” The recommended form is Palindrome Poetry. I Am Enough Connecting thoughts, busy mindnever bored, never stagnant:not stale or foul from standingIContinue reading “#Writober Day 5: Treating Myself to a New Mirrorworld for Fall”

#Writober Day 4: Trying New Tricks

Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is Trick. So what new trick do I want to try today? Yesterday’s ideas of wisdom being connections of ideas inspired me to try sewing, typing with an old typewriter, and writing on transparencies. Then I thought about all the fun I had with inkblots, and tried making inkblotsContinue reading “#Writober Day 4: Trying New Tricks”

#Writober Day 3: Naive Skeletal Wisdom

Contradictory Abstract Nouns This week I am exploring the naivete in wisdom and the wisdom in naivete. Yesterday, while reading The Senses: Design Beyond Vision edited by Ellen Lipton and Andrea Lipps, I read, “Sensory design activates touch, sound, smell, taste, and the wisdom of the body.” That really opened up this week’s study forContinue reading “#Writober Day 3: Naive Skeletal Wisdom”

#Writober Day 2: Feelin’ a little batty

R. I. P. XVII Readers Imbibing Peril Peril of the listen! This morning I finished listening to Dante’s Inferno. I think Clive Barker was heavily influenced by this work while making Hellraiser. Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is “Bats.” I used the same fabric as I did last year, but I turned it intoContinue reading “#Writober Day 2: Feelin’ a little batty”

#Writober Day 1 and #SoCS: Monster Me

Hello! And welcome to Experience Writing’s Writober kick-off celebration. We’re somehow still having summer here in the Seattle area, and I’m about to go dive in the lake to cool off, but that doesn’t mean I can’t get in the Halloween spirit. I had a ton of fun this morning with Tourmaline .’s prompt “Monster”Continue reading “#Writober Day 1 and #SoCS: Monster Me”

#Writober Begins Tomorrow: bring on the spooky thrills and chills

In my mid-September post How to Capture the Love in Apathy and the Apathy in Love, I spent a little time looking forward to fun events in October. Now it’s almost here, and I hope you’ll join me for all the reading, writing, and photography fun. R. I. P. XVII Readers Imbibing Peril Peril ofContinue reading “#Writober Begins Tomorrow: bring on the spooky thrills and chills”

Spring Has Sprung

April is coming very soon. It’s a busy month here at Experience Writing because it’s National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and the A-Z blogging challenge. This year, since I photo-illustrate my posts anyway, and was so inspired by one word daily prompts last fall, I thought I would add a photo-challenge to the mix. HowContinue reading “Spring Has Sprung”

#SoCS: Celebrating 100 Days

If you’re curious and want to look back over what I created every day for 100 days, you can click on October 2021 in the column on the right under Archives, and hit “older posts” at the bottom of each page until you get to October 1st when this posting streak started. Stream of ConsciousnessContinue reading “#SoCS: Celebrating 100 Days”

Blackout Poetry Art Day

This is it, the penultimate post of my daily photos and poetry. It’s fun that I will reach day 100 on a Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Yesterday, I got a rainbow of both chisel tip and thin Sharpies for putting words on the world, so I thought I would continue my found poetry project withContinue reading “Blackout Poetry Art Day”

A Fun Found Poetry Project

New Poetry Today is Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub. Head on over to read a diverse selection of poetry and share a poem of your own. Yesterday, while looking at New Pages and planning submissions, I happened upon a call for found poetry from Heron Tree. The call is to create found poetryContinue reading “A Fun Found Poetry Project”