October 28: Choices Along the Journey #OctPoWriMo #Writober

OctPoWriMo Read for inspiration and craft Today I received my copy of Emporium by Aditi Machado (amazon associate link) Winner of the 2019 James Laughlin Award, so I thought I would recommend reading some of her poems. Recommended poem: Four poems by Aditi Machado Online journal: Conjunctions Spotlight Poem from OctPoWriMo Day 27 Magic SpellsContinue reading “October 28: Choices Along the Journey #OctPoWriMo #Writober”

October 26: Tappswave Poetry Form #OctPoWriMo #Writober

OctPoWriMo Read for inspiration and craft Recommended poem: Five Poems by Carolyn Forché Online journal: World Literature Today Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt is What makes me different? Forms Yesterday, we were challenged to create our own form. I got a start on it, but needed more time to play around with my ideas. IContinue reading “October 26: Tappswave Poetry Form #OctPoWriMo #Writober”

October 24: Daring #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep

OctPoWriMo Read for inspiration and craft Recommended poem: In the Dark Times by Andres Rojas Online journal: Diode Poetry Spotlight Poem from OctPoWriMo Day 23 I Still Believe in Magic by Esther Jones Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt is doing something you’ve always wanted to do Forms Joseph’s Star or LaJemme Ever since I startedContinue reading “October 24: Daring #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”

October 19: Digging Deeper While Being Present #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep

OctPoWriMo While looking for exercises to help me “did deeper”, I stumbled upon “The 5 Whys” and thought I would try using the technique in today’s poem Read for inspiration and craft Recommended poem: Life is Beautiful by Dorianne Laux Online journal: Canary Spotlight Poem from OctPoWriMo Day 18 My World by Sunita had aContinue reading “October 19: Digging Deeper While Being Present #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”

October 18: Relax and Process #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep

OctPoWriMo Read for inspiration and craft While looking for a poem to share for today, I found this really interesting article from National Writing Project called Channeling Emotion: One Way to Make Poems Out of Feelings Recommended poem: Any Morning by William StaffordLight Betrays by Krysta Lee Frost Online journal: Wildness Journal Spotlight Poem fromContinue reading “October 18: Relax and Process #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep”

October 1: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep Here we go!

It’s a foggy, creepy morning. Perfect for photographing spiderwebs and getting into the October spirit. Happy first day of October and that means it’s time for some poetry and creepy, scary flash fiction! OctPoWriMo Poetry prompt Today’s OctPoWriMo prompt and the theme for this year is “Shine your light.” Forms Acrostic or Kyrielle Sonnet AnContinue reading “October 1: #OctPoWriMo #Writober and #NanoPrep Here we go!”

October Challenges: #Writober and #OctPoWriMo

October is right around the corner which means some fun daily challenges I participate in are coming up. I hope you’ll join me. Writober Writober is a daily flash story challenge with image prompts. I set up the daily prompts on a pinterest board, so you can see them all at once and jump aroundContinue reading “October Challenges: #Writober and #OctPoWriMo”