Writober 2025: Day One Breath>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Breath OctPoWriMo Take a BreathContinue reading “Staying With the Breath”
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It All Starts With the Breath
Writober 2025: Our Deepest Fears>Prompt Post 🔗Post contains Amazon associate links (shown with Aal in parentheses)🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to each of the challenges to navigate easily to the prompt of your interest: OctPoWriMo for poetry; Writober Flash Fiction for flash fiction; Halloween Photography Challenge for photography🐦⬛Example poems are copiedContinue reading “It All Starts With the Breath”
This Year’s Theme: Depth
Depth is both a concrete noun—something we can measure like the depth of the lake from the surface to the bottom—and an abstract noun—something we can’t measure like the quality of being profound. Depth takes time and distance. Depth isn’t forced or rushed. Depth is quiet and still, heavy with pressure and bio-electric. So I’mContinue reading “This Year’s Theme: Depth”
Writober Early Birds
Here we are. It’s already Writober Eve. This year I have lots of useful writing tools, and fun prompts to keep us inspired to write every day. You can take what inspires and leave the rest. You can come back to any post when you have more time. Or you can write whatever moves youContinue reading “Writober Early Birds”
Writober Is Coming
October is a very busy month here at Experience Writing. It’s October Poetry Writing Month (OctPoWriMo), Writober daily flash fiction challenge, the daily Halloween Photography Challenge, and it’s the month of preparing to write a novel during November’s NaNoWriMo. Though Writober was the name of the flash fiction challenge, I’m using it as the nameContinue reading “Writober Is Coming”
XLIV Pushcart Prize Collection
On the page across from the editor’s note in the May/June 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, there’s a full page ad for the 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV Best of the Small Presses edited by Bill Henderson. The X in this number is ten subtracted from the L after it, as the I is one subtracted from theContinue reading “XLIV Pushcart Prize Collection”
Poetry as a Wedge
In the Q&A with Cathy Park Hong called “Double Doors Open” by Dana Isokawa in the May/June 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, the word “wedge” is used three times in three different ways. Dana Isokawa writes, “I spot Hong’s three poetry titles on a top shelf, wedged between Homer’s Odyssey and Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road.” In answerContinue reading “Poetry as a Wedge”
The Violence of Poetry
In the Q&A with Natalie Diaz called “Energy” by Jacqueline Woodson in the March/April 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, Natalie Diaz said, “I have lived many lives. I have tried and failed at many things. I have won and lost much. I don’t know much, but I believe language lasts. In all its violence and tenderness, itContinue reading “The Violence of Poetry”
A Lucky Stream of Consciousness
This year’s Writer’s Games are over. I’m happy to say that one of my stories placed third in its event, so it will be published in the anthology. My first publication this year. Woohoo! This is the first Saturday I’m not working on a story, and am excited to have a Stream of Consciousness Saturday.Continue reading “A Lucky Stream of Consciousness”
#WriterInMotion ~ Final Thoughts
I entered the Writer-In-Motion Challenge hoping to get some big break-through information from a professional editor. I wanted that sword that would cut down rejection and get me to YES! Truth is, I got more than that. I got, “Wow, Maria, the voice in this is amazing!” Voice. That magical, unteachable thing. That how doContinue reading “#WriterInMotion ~ Final Thoughts”
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