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”
Depth of Mess from a New Perspective
Today, I am celebrating making a deep dent in the depths of papers stacked around my office, and hiding in the desk drawers. 🥳🎆🎉 At the start of this month, I gave myself the tiny goal of throwing away ten pieces of paper a day. That could be anything: receipts, ticket stubs, old mail, anything.Continue reading “Depth of Mess from a New Perspective”
Liminal Imagery
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to choose an image from @SpaceLiminalBot to inspire a poem. PAD Challenge: Write an active poem Self-fulfilling All of the shelves are emptythe end is near nothing left to read herethe end is near the light blotches in the blue carpetlead the eye to the liner left in the trash canContinue reading “Liminal Imagery”
Shuffling my deck
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt includes some arts and crafts. We are challenged to create a “Personal Universal Deck” of words, then use some in a poem. I also listened to an audio recording of Michael McClure giving a lecture explaining the deck. Sadly, it ends right before he’s going to discuss things that can be doneContinue reading “Shuffling my deck”
The Pessimistic Moustache Game: Avoiding cliche description
The idea and tools I recently read The Hollow by Agatha Christie and one simple but unique description jumped out at me. “He came in accompanied by Inspector Grange, who was a large, heavy built man with a down-drooping, pessimistic moustache.” I love the idea of pessimistic facial hair and it really got meContinue reading “The Pessimistic Moustache Game: Avoiding cliche description”
Great News for Writers and Anyone Who Wants to Write!
Sometimes things just go right. And when that happens, I get excited and want to share. I got struck by the spring cleaning bug and in my sorting and tossing, I found a copy of Writer’s Digest that was part of the swag from an author meet I went to last year. Inside was anContinue reading “Great News for Writers and Anyone Who Wants to Write!”
The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode Three
When we last joined Moxie, she thought she had witnessed a jewel heist, but when the dust settled nothing appeared to be missing . . . During the rest of the parade Moxie felt accosted by stench. Every few feet brought a wave of yet another foreign smell. A hint of honey or beeswax loftedContinue reading “The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode Three”
The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode One
Episode One She Only Hears What She Wants to Hear Moxie Sharpe felt increasingly uncomfortable as a young costumer pushed and prodded her breasts into the highest possible cleavage while tightening laces through each layer of metal holes. Pearl had messed up before, but this time was the worst. “Take a deep breath.” TheContinue reading “The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode One”
Gator McBumpypants in Dee Dee Makes Three First Draft Thanks To A Thousand Words A Day
Though I did not write another 1,000 words since I reported yesterday, I did write 570 words to finish up the first draft of my third picture book in the Gator McBumpypants and friends series: Gator McBumpypants in Dee Dee Makes Three. That brings the weekend total to 2,014! By my math, I made itContinue reading “Gator McBumpypants in Dee Dee Makes Three First Draft Thanks To A Thousand Words A Day”
Experience Writing 