OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears For today’s poem, pick a piece of prose: a piece of horror flash fiction, or short story, and pick through its bones to create a piece of found poetry. You don’t have to present it as an erasure poem, but that can be fun. Here’s an example of an erasureContinue reading “Oct. 8 Prompts: Connecting the Bones”
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Oct. 7 Prompts: Fear is a Monster
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of Monsters: Use a traditional Halloween monster in a metaphor. For example, “The world is a vampire,” the great opening line of The Smashing Pumpkins song “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” Open your poem with your metaphor and develop it throughout your poem. Anyone up to the challenge of tryingContinue reading “Oct. 7 Prompts: Fear is a Monster”
Oct. 6 Prompts: In the Twilight
I’ve noticed a bit of a drop-off already. I hope it’s not because you’re not enjoying the prompts. Please let me know if there’s something you would like me to change. Be brutally honest; I can take it. I’m doing this because I love these challenges and don’t want them to end. I find fallContinue reading “Oct. 6 Prompts: In the Twilight”
Oct. 5 Prompts: Every Word a Treat
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of natural disasters: For today’s poem think of the extreme weather that scares you the most (You don’t have to have experienced it). Why is it the most frightening? Imagine experiencing this weather event. Write about all of your sensory experiences. Is this weather event a metaphor for somethingContinue reading “Oct. 5 Prompts: Every Word a Treat”
Oct. 4 Prompts: The Trick to Facing Fear
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Today’s prompt was adapted from a prompt in The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer called “Help Yourself.” It says that the trick to reaching goals is to give advice to others. So with the goal of facing our fears write a poem that gives advice aboutContinue reading “Oct. 4 Prompts: The Trick to Facing Fear”
Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Cara Hartley, a.k.a. Ornery Owl, who joins us from Dark Hearts Love Too on blogspot made the lovely banner above and offered it for use with our posts. Today’s prompt explores how fear affects memory. Think about something scary that happened. Now, list everything you don’t remember about it. WriteContinue reading “Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic”
Oct. 2 Prompts: What are Your Creative Rituals?
Yesterday was such a fun start. I really enjoyed the poems and images you linked up. If you didn’t get a chance to join in yesterday, it’s never too late to join in. I’m glad you’re here. OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Do you have rituals to get you in a writing frame of mind?Continue reading “Oct. 2 Prompts: What are Your Creative Rituals?”
Welcome to October Day 1: Prompts to Put Us in a Spooky Mood
Here we are. It’s the first day of October. Thank you for joining me. I’ve provided prompts for poetry, fiction, and photography. I like to use all of these prompts to inform each other in a daily poem, flash fiction story, and photo shoot, but you are welcome to use them in any way thatContinue reading “Welcome to October Day 1: Prompts to Put Us in a Spooky Mood”
Thinking About #Writober
I got in the Halloween spirit a little early this year. Yesterday, I was tweeting about Readers Imbibing Peril. It starts the first of September, but I always forget until October. So in one way I’m early by only starting a couple weeks late. This year’s group book is The Sundial by Shirley Jackson. IContinue reading “Thinking About #Writober”
Experience Writing 