Here we are. It’s the first day of October. Thank you for joining me. I’ve provided prompts for poetry, fiction, and photography. I like to use all of these prompts to inform each other in a daily poem, flash fiction story, and photo shoot, but you are welcome to use them in any way thatContinue reading “Welcome to October Day 1: Prompts to Put Us in a Spooky Mood”
Category Archives: Photography
Join Me for Fun October Creative Challenges
October is almost here which means it’s time for OctPoWriMo, Writober, and a Halloween Photography Challenge. I love using these challenges to get me into a Halloween mood all month long. This year it looks like I’ll be providing the prompts for all three challenges, so I’ll schedule prompt posts to be up just afterContinue reading “Join Me for Fun October Creative Challenges”
Tiny Little Slivers
Today’s prompt for Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) Monday at dVerse Poets Pub is “sliver.” Tiny Little Slivers summer barefoot joyrunning on docks and decksoften leaves a tiny sliver the smallest almost invisible splinter deep under the skin creating a stabbing painto the touchsharp and lingeringlike the stabin the backslivering its wayto theContinue reading “Tiny Little Slivers”
Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study
Back on May 1st in my post Reviewing April and Contemplating May, I talked about my plan to collect all of the abstract nouns and place them in grids along the three axes of fear (fight to flight); control (inner to outer); and bias (positive to negative) in an attempt to find a new BigContinue reading “Continuing My Contradictory Abstract Noun Study”
Tuned In for a Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS
Today is supposed to be very hot with poor air quality due to smoke. It feels like a good day to stay inside with the blinds drawn and he fan on high for a stream of consciousness Saturday. And I’m in luck! Today’s prompt is “tune.” Tunes for Tuning Out While Tuning In Today isContinue reading “Tuned In for a Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS”
As the Bottle Spins
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “bottle.” The Bottle Spins The perfect summer sunlight filled the empty bottleonce stopped it held a warm vibrating lightthe bottle sat on a shelf like a secret to not tellwaiting for a winter darkness that was right once stopped; it held the warm vibrating lightwhen he reachedContinue reading “As the Bottle Spins”
Not a Pine
Today’s Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is “pine.” Ever Since I Was Little, I Can’t Help But Call Them Pine I complain about the pine needles insideand raking up the pine conesThey’re not pine, says he, correcting me, firmly, as I stare up at the giant evergreensWe don’tContinue reading “Not a Pine”
Rhetorical devices: Playing with words to be more convincing
Something amazing and surprising happened this summer. My nephew became interested in reading and wanted to read my Gator McBumpypants picture books with me. He then planned out the next ten years of my life with new characters I need to make and write about. I still have the pictures I took in New OrleansContinue reading “Rhetorical devices: Playing with words to be more convincing”
A Short Poem That Pops
Sorry I was away so long. This summer is turning out to be especially busy. But let’s dive back in with a Quadrille. Today’s prompt over at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a Quadrille (a poem of exactly forty-four words) that includes the word “pop” in some way. Anticipating the Balloon’s Pop Anticipation fillsContinue reading “A Short Poem That Pops”
Proverbial Honey
dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Meet the Bar prompt, Björn introduces us to the work of John Donne and invites us to follow his eighteen line heroic sonnet form. The line about honey in Donne’s poem made me think of a couple Proverbs about honey, so I thought I would rewrite them to fit intoContinue reading “Proverbial Honey”
Experience Writing 