If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from Deep in the Forest. Today was a the first frost of the season. I took a nice walk hunting for small leaves and fronds to use as filters on clear plastic to create forests in the mirrorworld. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our FearsContinue reading “Lost in the Forest”
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Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Forest for the Trees: It’s easy to get caught up in details and lose the big picture, or be so focused on the big picture that the details get lost. Think about the opening of a film: the camera flying over a big city, then zooming into a location then toContinue reading “Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest”
Facing What Haunts Me
If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I am responding to the prompts from Haunted. For today’s images I wanted to create that feeling when you’re alone at night and you think you see someone out of the corner of your eye, or you hear doors creak and cupboards bang. Today’s photo shoot was aContinue reading “Facing What Haunts Me”
Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Not Being Good Enough: Is one of your poems from earlier this month haunting you? Choose one of your poems from the beginning of the month and revise it. Choose the best line and start a new poem with it, or start with the last line and write fromContinue reading “Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted”
Strange Superstitions
For today’s images I cut some new filters to play with superstitions in the mirrorworld. I thought it would be fun to see if I could “break” the mirrors with my filters to avoid the bad luck. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears I think this is the first time I’ve tried the Mirror Sestet. I likeContinue reading “Strange Superstitions”
Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the World: Describe what you see out the window. Now, go outside and describe what you see looking in through that window. Write a poem about the similarities and differences. What did you notice first? What most surprised you? The Mirror Sestet might work well with this prompt. WritoberContinue reading “Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions”
A Bloody Tuesday
For today’s images I had fun with paint and markers. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Don’t Say Anything At All Mama said, if I can’t say anything nicedon’t say anything at allso my not nice thoughtsthey have been building upand I’ve bit my tongue to bleeding Mama said, never talk to strangersI think she’s afraid ofContinue reading “A Bloody Tuesday”
Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Danger: Think of a warning you received from your parents as a child. Start your poem with “My mother says/said” or “My father says/said” and in the poem try to capture their fears behind the warnings. For this poem you may want to try a Cascade. Here’s a cascadeContinue reading “Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface”
The Night Sky
For today’s images, I made pin point filters of constellations: Orion and the Big Dipper, then I pretended the mirrorworld was the night sky. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears The Music of My Night after Muriel Rukeyser When I who can never sleep without a video on my laptop,waking often to keep the nightmares away, canContinue reading “The Night Sky”
Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night
I am so glad you are still on these challenges with me. This last week, I started writing full flashes, and cutting more surprising cuts for my photographs. And I finished my pocket quilt in its first rendition. So much creative energy heading toward Halloween. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears A few weeks ago I readContinue reading “Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night”
Experience Writing 