#NaPoWriMo – DAY 28 – IN THE WOODS

DAY 28 – IN THE WOODS

Crunch crack sounds warning

Hidden creatures sigh relief

Snow is in the woods

 

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#AprilPrompts Blogging Challenge

Having just completed Terri Giuliano Long’s challenge #BlogFlash2013, Carlie M A Cullen and I have decided we want to do another one and have decided to organize it ourselves.

The posts will be published every weekday throughout April and publicised using the hashtag #AprilPrompts. There will be a daily prompt posted on both our blogs (see list below), and each post has a maximum count of 200 words.

We would love it if you’d care to join us! This is a great way of getting the creative juices flowing and can be used as a writing exercise to warm up the muscles in the brain. It’s a lot of fun and a fab way of meeting new people.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t post every day, just do what you can. Post the links to your blog on this or Carlie’s site for each prompt you write and we’ll publicize it.

If you’d like to take part, please reply to this post.

Carlie and I look forward to blogging with you.

~ Donna

Daily Prompt List:

1^st – ARROW

2^nd – MUSE

3^rd – BIRTHDAY

4^th – SIN

5^th – INTIMACY

8^th – GROWING

9^th – TRUTH

10^th – HEART

11^th – THRILLER

12^th – LOSS

15^th – GAME

16^th – INFINITY

17^th – THRONE

18^th – PROMISE

19^th – STOLEN

22^nd – HOSPITAL

23^rd – SEARCHING

24^th – BETRAYAL

25^th – GUILT

26^th – LOVE

#BlogFlash2013 – DAY 21 – SUCCESS (Haiku)

Hi Gang,

Well, this is it; today’s the last day of Terri Giuliano Long’s #BlogFlash2013- Part 1. I’m sorry for it to end, because BlogFlash is the one time that I force myself to write and publish something every day to my blog. It’s predominately haiku, which is a love of mine that I don’t concentrate on writing otherwise.

I thoroughly enjoyed popping over to everyone’s blogs to read and comment on posts. I feel a real sense of community and I’m going to miss it until Terri’s next #blogflash rolls around again. I will try to keep in touch with the new friends I’ve made. See y’all in August!

Since the warm weather has made me itch to go fish, here’s an encore piece on ‘Success’ from #BlogFlash2012:

SUCCESS = A GOOD DAY OF FISHING

Photo credit- Alison Sheeney

Sea bird spots target 

Throttled over sent lines down 

Dinner’s in the boat

My Challenge!

Choosing perfect words for a 17-syllable piece is challenging to say the least. Daily word prompts get my creative juices flowing, which pour into the rest of my day’s writing. I want to keep that creativity flowing, and I have a favor to ask y’all.

I’m asking my reader friends to leave one-word prompts in the comments section (leave more than one word if you wish). All I need is 22 different prompts to write weekday haiku/poems for the month of April. Go ahead…you know you want to!

Thank you in advance for helping me with my self-challenge. Terri, thanks again for a fun month’s romp! :0)

 

#BlogFlash2013 – Day 19- City

Photo credit-theepochtimes.com

CITY

It’s 4:44, I mustn’t sleep any more
Gotta rise early before I head out the door
Play catch up online, dress and eat
Hurry, hurry hustle to hit the street

Hop the train in the pouring rain
Commuting to the city is a royal pain
Crammed on the subway to get to my block
Still, I run late as I spot a clock

Push through the crowds, past towers of stone
Umbrella breaks, I’m chilled to the bone
Ride the elevator stories up
Run to the break room to fill up my cup

Dash to my desk to begin my work
As assistant to the assistant accounting clerk
I gaze out sealed windows as the hours drag by
Invisible in this city, I stifle a cry

I’m betting something better waits for me
As I type my resignation with a smidgen of glee
This cold, hard city I will not take anymore
I marched out the door at 4:44

Photo credit-geofffox.com

#BlogFlash2013- Day 16- Community

DAY 16 – COMMUNITY

Sophie recently joined her first critique group. She was leery, afraid she’d come across like an idiot, but began commenting and offering suggestions to improve the manuscripts. She also bit her lip and submitted her stories for critique.

Sophie saw that her suggestions, for the most part, were being used in the revisions of other group members. She also received suggestions for her own story that she might have missed if it were not for ‘fresh eyes.’

She felt exhilarated and inspired knowing she had joined a like-minded community. Sophie was no longer writing alone and was forging new friendships too boot.

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