For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, scream, I made a new filter to visually symbolize the horrible screams my skeleton candles made all night. I’m afraid they were traumatized by yesterday’s photoshoot. But then I went out to get the mail, and nature really made me scream. This is a real warning, I will be sharingContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 29: Warning! Nature’s Gory Horror Made Me Scream!”
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#OctPoWriMo Day 28: Carving Into the Gooey Bits
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, carve, I went to grab a carving knife from the knife block, but it was missing. Mr. Skeleton had gotten to it first and had gone on a skeleton candle murder spree. Unlike yesterday, I had a lot of fun this morning, and everything worked the way I wanted itContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 28: Carving Into the Gooey Bits”
#OctPoWriMo Day 27: So Many Moon Songs
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, moon, I returned to the full moon created in my hearth scene the other day and played with some color gels and bokeh creatures I didn’t get to yesterday. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt, “Expecting,” ties in well with this morning’s efforts: nothing went as expected, reminding me that expectations lead toContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 27: So Many Moon Songs”
#OctPoWriMo Day 26: Playing with the Upside-down
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, creature, I experimented with an effect I noticed when I started to play with bokeh in the mirror: it’s possible to take a photo of a filter both right side up and upside down. These are my first experiments with the effect, but I got some fun results. OctPoWriMo Today’sContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 26: Playing with the Upside-down”
#OctPoWriMo Day 25: Fueling the Spirits
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, haunted, I took my single ghost filter to see what’s haunted in my world. OctPoWriMo Here we are starting our last week. I’ve decided to continue my daily poem practice through November by participating in Writer’s Digest’s November PAD Chapbook Challenge. After I finished my poem revision series last spring,Continue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 25: Fueling the Spirits”
#OctPoWriMo Day 18:Once Upon a Bloodsucker
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, “vampire,” I created a fang filter and found the monsters in my world. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt is an empty pot. The suggested form is Double Exposure. I like this type of poem-within-a-poem form. It provides the opportunity for more than one speaker, or combining two different related images (like vampiresContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 18:Once Upon a Bloodsucker”
Flowers Along the Path
If you read my Stream of Consciousness Saturday, you’ll know that I found a couple of new, fun projects. Today, I was determined to continue my flower-a-day idea (guess I take Sundays off). I started my drawing, attempting to only use the colored pencils, not the regular pencil outline, but that did not work forContinue reading “Flowers Along the Path”
Excavating the Mind Day 6: The Dramatic Interplay of Light and Shadow
I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Day 6 notes and observations Levi was not excited about our adventure this morning, so I left the door open and set out. Today, the light was beautiful. The glittering dew onContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Day 6: The Dramatic Interplay of Light and Shadow”
The Mentor of #NaNoWriMo Day 7
I woke up this morning and went straight to my manuscript. I had a bad dream, but it made me think of a scene for my story and I didn’t want to miss it. It has been foggy and cold the last few days, so I decided to have a fire in the fireplace. TheContinue reading “The Mentor of #NaNoWriMo Day 7”
#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 3: Playing with my prompts
Day 3 2017 is the call to adventure. Set-up, catalyst, debate. My main character has to decide if he’s going to run and hide, or head back to his childhood home. #vss365: grate Kirk saw something sparkle under the grate. He got down on his knees and pulled aside the rusted metal. He recognized theContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 3: Playing with my prompts”
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