These days are flying by. There’s never enough time for everything I want to do. What a shame. Here are my responses to the Writober Day 3 prompts in Sounds of Words: Assonance and Consonance. OctPoWriMo For today’s poem, I looked at my entire wordlist so far looking for assonance and consonance and found theContinue reading “What a Shame”
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Embarrassment Happens
These are my responses to the Writober Day 2 prompts in Sounds of Words: Stress and Duration. OctPoWriMo I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t present metric feet as clearly as I could this morning. While putting my words in my Excel Spreadsheet, I realized that I told you to count syllables in a line andContinue reading “Embarrassment Happens”
Sounds of Words: Stress and Duration
Welcome back for the second day of Writober. How did it go yesterday? Feeling inspired? Don’t forget to put your links in the chat to share what you wrote and made. Today, all our prompts will continue to explore the universal fear of Ego death: the loss of subjective self-identity by looking at embarrassment. EmbarrassmentContinue reading “Sounds of Words: Stress and Duration”
Haunted by Ego Death
OctPoWriMo Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a poem about Harvest or Haunting, or a Haunted Harvest. Let’s see if I can fit that in with the prompt from the first day of Writober post Letters: Symbols of Sound. Four of the ten words in my word list started with “s,”Continue reading “Haunted by Ego Death”
Haunting Strings
OctPoWriMo Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub. Lisa challenges us to write a poem of exactly forty-four words that includes the word “string.” I’m also responding to the prompts in Writober Early Birds When the Lights Go Out The void slips through the cracksDisembodied strings vibratea haunting tuneNot unwelcoming and yet, I shiverContinue reading “Haunting Strings”
In a Spooky Mood
Happy first day of October! I hope you’re enjoying jumping in to all of this month’s fun blogging challenges. I woke up while it was still dark and went out with my camera to enjoy the spooky moonlight. I really enjoyed the results of using the “Night Scene” setting in my Sony alpha-58 to captureContinue reading “In a Spooky Mood”
#Writober Day 31: Happy Halloween!
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge As I did last year, I found this Halloween challenge inspiring. I made more detailed cuts for my filters this year inspired by PBS’s Monstrum, and came up with the idea to use tiny brads to add movable aspects to my filters. Thank you Tourmaline . Today’s prompt is Costume. IContinue reading “#Writober Day 31: Happy Halloween!”
#Writober Day 30: Simple Pumpkin Party
Contradictory Abstract Nouns So here we are near the end of October. This week I looked at Here’s the calendar I came up with for my continued study through November: Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is Party. OctPoWriMo Today’s theme is Simple Pleasures. Pleasures Never Simple Pain is a thiefstealing simple pleasures the fuzzy,Continue reading “#Writober Day 30: Simple Pumpkin Party”
#Writober Day 29: #SoCS Surprise Halloween Element
I’m so excited to share that I am now a published photographer!! One of my photographs is in the latest issue of Wrongdoing Magazine. You can view it online (pages 98-99). Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS) Today’s prompt for some stream of consciousness writing is “element.” Here’s an excerpt from this morning’s journal pages: TheseContinue reading “#Writober Day 29: #SoCS Surprise Halloween Element”
#Writober Day 28: Courageous Screaming
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is Scream. This morning I’m thinking of “The Scream” by Edvard Munch. How will I visualize a piercing, shrill sound? Is the scream the sound outside the body, or the gut-wrenching terror vibrating inside before it escapes through the vocal cords? And how would I visualize that? OctPoWriMo Today’sContinue reading “#Writober Day 28: Courageous Screaming”
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