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”
Join Me for Fun October Creative Challenges
October is almost here which means it’s time for OctPoWriMo, Writober, and a Halloween Photography Challenge. I love using these challenges to get me into a Halloween mood all month long. This year it looks like I’ll be providing the prompts for all three challenges, so I’ll schedule prompt posts to be up just afterContinue reading “Join Me for Fun October Creative Challenges”
#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”
#Writober Day 27: Carving Pretty Things Into Weak Flesh
Contradictory Abstract Nouns Today, I start looking at the last of my chosen Halloween themed abstract nouns: finding the weakness in strength and the strength in weakness. This morning’s thoughts took me full circle to watching Hellraiser to start the Halloween season. Those movies are all about carving and weakness of the flesh. I’ve alwaysContinue reading “#Writober Day 27: Carving Pretty Things Into Weak Flesh”
#Writober Day 26: Containing the Autumn Moon
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is Moon. For today’s images I thought about making a transformer filter for the phases of the moon which led me to the idea of using a small brad and turning the moon. For this filter, I used a tiny, black brad (shaped like a button) to hold aContinue reading “#Writober Day 26: Containing the Autumn Moon”
#Writober Day 25: Creatures to Represent Our Fears
Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is “Creature.” For today’s images I attempted to create a creature to represent the sudden fear I felt while letting the cat out in the middle of the night. That split second horror of what if someone or something is there, waiting on the other side of the glass.Continue reading “#Writober Day 25: Creatures to Represent Our Fears”
Experience Writing 