To my surprise, I’ll be working from a visual prompt: this lovely photograph by Rahul Pandit of a small house in nature. This project being about sharing the process from draft creation to polished piece, I thought I would share from the very beginning of my process, through brainstorming to idea before I get toContinue reading “#WriterinMotion Begins! the prompt”
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Writer In Motion: A five week writing and revising challenge
Summer is here. The weather is gorgeous, but sweaty-hot. Levi and I are adjusting though motivationally-challenged. He gets away with napping and bathing all day, but my stories won’t write themselves. So, I found a challenge to keep me working through August. For the next five weeks, starting August 1st, I will be participating inContinue reading “Writer In Motion: A five week writing and revising challenge”
#dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday: Blue
The Blemishes are only Another Color Blue Blue is the color spreading lake to sky on this sunny day at every other time they lay in shades of gray reflection, refraction, illusions of the light perceived and the clouds that lord over or come to play melt this mountain into blue. *The promptContinue reading “#dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday: Blue”
A Morning Reading Great Poetry: Why don’t we tweet poetry books like TV shows or movies?
This morning, I enjoyed reading a lot of great poetry. As I read, I needed to write down at least one line from every page with fervent excitement. I wanted to share my joy with everyone. I thought, “why don’t people tweet poetry books the way they tweet TV shows and films?” Start them atContinue reading “A Morning Reading Great Poetry: Why don’t we tweet poetry books like TV shows or movies?”
How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: A Scenario
If you haven’t read it yet, you’ll want to read through my last post about Setting and Characters, so this makes some sense. Okay, back to the action: Since Luchinda dressed for her character, the rest of us decided to dress up too. Woody wasn’t too excited when I handed him a cape and theContinue reading “How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: A Scenario”
How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: Setting & Characters
I’ve been talking a lot about poetry lately, but I’m also participating in The Writer’s Games. The challenge to write a short story to a prompt each weekend started two weeks ago. I’ll be getting a new prompt this evening. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I have found many fun plotting games and devicesContinue reading “How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: Setting & Characters”
What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.
Yesterday I started a new Coursera course: Songwriting:Writing the Lyrics with Pat Pattison through Berklee College of Music. One of the first lessons conceptualized a song as three boxes, stacked with the smallest on top. The top box fitting inside the middle box and both fitting in the bottom box. He used this imagery asContinue reading “What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.”
Monday Quadrille – Mr. Fix-it
Since I finished my short story draft for the Writer’s Games and need to let it sit a bit before the final edit, I thought I would wander over to the dVerse Poets Pub where it’s Monday Quadrille day. Today’s word to put into my 44 word poem is “fix.” Mr. Fix-it He has alwaysContinue reading “Monday Quadrille – Mr. Fix-it”
Excavating the Mind Round 2: Taming through Framing
Yesterday, I missed the live broadcast of Rattle Magazine’s weekly critique video, but I watched it after. It was very informative. I found it fascinating how little of the original draft may be the real poem, the gold nuggets that can then be mined. I’m going to watch more of the critique videos before IContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2: Taming through Framing”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 5: Observing with American Sentences
Neighborhood trees are in cages; I throw meat at them, but they don’t move. I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Today’s Enrichment and Time Engulfer This morning, I was excited to see that one of my library digitalContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 5: Observing with American Sentences”
Experience Writing 