This third week of NaNo Prep 101 is titled Construct a Detailed Plot or Outline. The exercise provided is a fun quiz to figure out what kind of plotter you are. I was not surprised to find that I am now equally 9-Step Plot Dot and Plot Rollercoaster. How I’m Plotting this year Last monthContinue reading “#NaNoPrep 101 Week Three – Construct a Detailed Plot”
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#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters
This second week of NaNo Prep 101 is titled Create Complex, Believable Characters . The exercise provided includes character questionnaires that you may find useful, but the final three questions are the most important: Want Need Internal/External obstacles Where I begin my characters Weeks ago when I began the Writer In Motion Challenge, I talkedContinue reading “#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters”
#WriterinMotion – the brainstorm
After my first thoughts, I printed out the image on a nice piece of matte photo paper. The colors printed even more vibrantly and got me thinking about color meaning and how I will use the colors in my story. I recently talked about specifics of color naming and thought I would start there. TheContinue reading “#WriterinMotion – the brainstorm”
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.”
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”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 4: Music’s Influence
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 Evaporator Nature Photography This morning I found some great nature photography posts to enjoy: CAS Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition Underwater Photographer of the year 2020 andContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 4: Music’s Influence”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 3: Framing my observations with word association
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 Eraser This morning I got an email from Rattle magazine telling me about the videos they are creating on youtube. I enjoyed listening to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer whoContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 3: Framing my observations with word association”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 2: Odd Juxtapositions Come to Light
I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Day 2 notes and observations The last time I took pictures in the house, I made a quick note about juxtaposition. I wrote, “I find how objects end up together in spaceContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 2: Odd Juxtapositions Come to Light”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 1: Cat’s Eye View
I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Day 1 notes and observations Today, I thought it would be fun to let Levi be the leader in our morning game of follow the leader. I attempted to let him leadContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 1: Cat’s Eye View”
Exploring Klecksography is Free and Fun!
You don’t have to have paint and brushes to create ink blots. You can use coffee, tea, even ketchup or mustard. Ran out of printer paper? Any old scrap paper will do. To further my klecksography innovation, I started with the eye-dropper and let that layer dry. Then I tried different size brushes. Flat vs.Continue reading “Exploring Klecksography is Free and Fun!”
Experience Writing 