It’s hard to believe we’re starting the second week of October already (and I went swimming in the lake yesterday). I felt like it took me some time to get warmed up this year. How about you? Hopefully this second week will find us in the flow. If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’mContinue reading “How the Bones Connected”
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Today is Jekyll and Hyde
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Fear is a Monster. Today really has been a monster, one of those days when nothing works and everything is a pain and takes way longer than it should. It was the hottest October seventh on record here. My neighbors said there was a boatContinue reading “Today is Jekyll and Hyde”
Writing in the Twilight
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to In the Twilight. For today’s images, I used a star-shaped filter in the mirrorworld and used a lot of patience with the panoramic function on my camera to create my own twilight. OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Watch Where You Step CracksCracks Cracksall those pavementContinue reading “Writing in the Twilight”
Sharing Writing is Such a Treat
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Every Word a Treat. For today’s images, I used two of my filters from last year with my mirror balls in the new pool noodles on the lake. It’s a gorgeous day today, so I treated myself to a walk while treating the grass toContinue reading “Sharing Writing is Such a Treat”
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”
RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns
Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN 14) To get back into my abstractions posts, and my reading novels like a novelist (RNLN) posts I thought I’d explore The Prophet as both. I finally read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, originally published in 1923. The short book had been on my radar for a while, butContinue reading “RNLN #14 The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran’s Exploration of Abstract Nouns”
Me, I Emu
dVerse Poets Pub For today’s Poetics prompt, Sarah invites us to verb animals and use those verbs or verb phrases—like “horsing around” or “pigging out” or our own inventions like “eagle over” or “ant the whole hill”—in our poem. This Animal Kingdom He is always sharking—dead-eyed stare, open mouthfull of sharpnessalways moving—prowlingfor the next morselContinue reading “Me, I Emu”
How Gravity Affects Composition
In my last abstractions post, I talked about The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and the ideas of centric and eccentric composition. Arnheim goes on to talk about how forces like gravity can effect composition which I found interesting. Arnheim says, “Walking downhill, dropping, orContinue reading “How Gravity Affects Composition”
Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity
While contemplating the next steps in my study of contradictory abstract nouns, I started reading The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts by Rudolf Arnheim, and realized that focusing on composition, both in my images and in my poetry is a logical next step. Arnheim proposes that there areContinue reading “Dialectic Composition: Centricity and Eccentricity”
Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion
This week I finished reading Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky. Though it’s a confusing read at times, he has many interesting ideas about how the elements of abstract art interact with the world to express and create emotion. Last week I gave his great example of the point as silence. Moving theContinue reading “Point, Line, and a Code of Emotion”
Experience Writing 