Today I was inspired to try a shadow effect inspired by images I’ve seen on Pinterest. Pareidolia combined with tricks of light and shadow made for some interesting house guests. November PAD Chapbook Challenge The prompt is to write a party poem. At the Party It hidesbehind the fancy ribbonsthe glitter, the streamersit hides inContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 4: A Party Hidden in Plain Sight”
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#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 3: As Wild as a Baby Huckleberry in November
So far, so good. My prompts are inspiring me to hop out of bed, grab my camera and try new techniques. When I woke up, I made a quick list of things found in the wild that I forgot to put on my abandoned property description yesterday. This included: spiderwebs, spiders, huckleberries, salmon berries, ferns,Continue reading “#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 3: As Wild as a Baby Huckleberry in November”
#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 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 21: Playing with Firewater
For Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, “drink,” I bought yummy, colorful juices and repurposed my candy mold as an ice tray. The drink photos did not go well. I made a terrible mess and I’m going to have to deal with a drunk alligator and zombie later, but I like how the candy pumpkin shots turnedContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo Day 21: Playing with Firewater”
#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 12: An Ode to Tortured Love & Frogs
Today’s Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge, is “frog.” My nephew told me that my next bokeh filter should be a frog a while ago. I’m glad I finally made it. I like how it turned out. OctPoWriMo Today’s prompt is “ode.” The 2018 prompt was “Tortured.” I like the contrast of writing a tortured poem ofContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 12: An Ode to Tortured Love & Frogs”
The Novelinee is new to me
Today’s prompt from Laura at Dverse Poets Pub is to write a Novelinee, a nine line stanza with a rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. Let’s see what I can come up with. In novelty a sudden interest overpowers calmand everywhere I look a present fallslike plums too high to pluck now in my palmenthralling rubberContinue reading “The Novelinee is new to me”
Oral Poetry: Trying a new writing process
The Poetics challenge from Ingrid at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem without writing it down. This intrigued me and sounded like a great way to start exploring some ideas for this month’s Changing Focus project around the theme “reflections.” I thought I’d share this vocal warm-up I like to do before recordingContinue reading “Oral Poetry: Trying a new writing process”
Pathways: a video, music, and poetry project
Update 9/2/2021: After enjoying all the oral poetry for the Poetics prompt this week, I thought the poets of dVerse Poets Pub might enjoy this for Open Link Night. I hope you will check out today’s special guest post from Jacob M. Appel on revision as well. Here it is! My response to wRightingMyLife’s ChangingContinue reading “Pathways: a video, music, and poetry project”
Any Excuse for Nephelococcygia
In April of this year I learned about Sky Awareness Week. I was looking up an occasion to write about for a poetry prompt, so I went to the National Days site and found I was in the midst of Sky Awareness Week and after laughing, a lot, imagining people that needed to be madeContinue reading “Any Excuse for Nephelococcygia”
Experience Writing 