#NovPAD Day 11

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#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 11: Obscured Memories

#NaNoWriMo & #NovPAD Day 11: Obscured Memories #poetry #photography #amwriting

I See Through You by Maria L. Berg 2021 For today’s images I thought it would be interesting to obscure my world with an object. I thought of those two yellow wiffle balls I found during my lost photos. When I went to grab one, I found a third. 🤨 Rain on the Concrete by Maria L. Berg 2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge Today’s prompt is to write a memory poem. Innocent Alteration She’ll…

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Day 11 NaNoWriMo & NovPAD

Day 11 NaNoWriMo & NovPAD #PacNWpoet #poetry #poet #poetryprompt #writingprompt #amwriting #poem #NaNoWriMo #NovPAD #NaNoWriMo2018 #NovPAD2018 #PADChallenge

Day 11 of 30 in our 2018 NaNoWriMo & November Poem-A-Day (NovPAD) challenges – moving forward! (more…)

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Day 21 3 weeks of NovPAD & NaNoWriMo

Spent this morning looking for my glasses; never did find them. I suspect the brownies took them & hid them. Today is also a day when physical law refuse to work for me. Those two challenges leave today being a “catch me if you can” day.

I need to spend today in my role as CC Willow, working on my online art offerings & setting up a holiday sale. So, on for today …

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Day 19 Sunday, Fun day for NovPAD and NaNoWriMo

And, yes, there will be a poem shared!

So yesterday I let procrastination limit how much I could write y’day. When I did get to Everybody Likes Pie, I was able to lose myself completely in it … for about 30 mins at a time. But then my inner domestic kept reminding me of chores I needed to do, which led to more chores needing to be done. Writers’ life, sheesh.

But today is Scavenger Hunt Write-In…

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Day 18 of NovPAD and NaNoWriMo

I thought I already posted this… Well, here it goes.

I have set today aside for poeming & noveling. So now I have the dishes done , two loads of laundry folded and one washing, floors swept, and a lil’ Thanksgiving prep handled. Okay  – break is over.

Time to get serious. Gotta hit this weeks’ word count .

Here’s the prompts …

NovPAD

Brewer has set Saturday’s NovPAD prompt as “good for nothing”.

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Day 18 of NovPAD and NaNoWriMo

I thought I already posted this… Well, here it goes.

I have set today aside for poeming & noveling. So now I have the dishes done , two loads of laundry folded and one washing, floors swept, and a lil’ Thanksgiving prep handled. Okay  – break is over.

Time to get serious. Gotta hit this weeks’ word count .

Here’s the prompts …

NovPAD

Brewer has set Saturday’s NovPAD prompt as “good for nothing”.

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Day 14 - 2 weeks of November Challenges

Day 14 – 2 weeks of November Challenges

Still trying to catch up from last week’s detour – but today makes the Two Week Mark for my four November challeges: Writer’s NovPAD, Poetry Potion’s Poem-A-Day, National Novel Writing Month, and my personal Zentangle-A-Day. I think any one participating in a November challenge should get real-time points for just sticking with it! Tomorrow makes our half-way point …

My hardest challenge, so far,…

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I really admire how Robert Lee Brewer creates a poem to share with each of his PAD prompts.

I want to do that – really, really want to do that on my Poem-A-Day challenges.  I also want to have my post ready to publish at 12:01 instead of 12:01 pm.

However, due to my current health issues, inconsistancy is my M.O lately.  Standing and walking is a big goal these days (one I mostly make in part to yoga!) and , as stated before, I am trying hard to let go of my perfectionism. For a while, in fits and starts, my health hadn’t even let me write poetry. And – for me – living without poetry, or even being unable to read was pure hell. And for those who didn’t know, the past year I have struggled with significant short-term memory issues. Many times during the day, I am just relearning over & over again (What does that button do? How did I tie shoes again? Where’s the damn light switch?). Or looking for that thing I just had in hand. (Which is why being in a play right now is a major acheivement right now for me; I’m really studying and working harder on these lines than any other play I have done.)

So back to baby steps. Get up. Make bed. Get dressed. Yoga. Show up at appointments. Blog, poem, write somewhere in between.  Maybe market my art some. For now, a daily poem is again an eventual goal. Like my NaNoWriMo word count – I’m getting there. 

NovPAD

Writer’s Digest Nov Pad for this sunday is to write a transformative poem.

Poetry Potion’s PAD prompt is “the giant inside”.

Mia Botha’s prompt for today is “It evaded me”.

NaNoWriMo

NaNo’s prompt for Sunday is “Have someone find a partially illegible note.”

I admit – I’m behind on my NaNoWriMo writing. I haven’t had a chance to do any writing since Wednesday; Thursday’s migraine knocked me out until mid-friday & with the food prep for the SteamPunk Masquerade Ball, I was in the kitchen from noon-ish until about 9 pm on Saturday. My sacrifice was worth it though; we expected about 170 attendees and probably twice that number showed up.  It took quite a bit of creativity from Janet & I to get the food to stretch; and once I emerged from the kitchen  (9ish) to join the party, everyone expressed their gratitude for the yummy food. (Note: the food was purchased by other members on the committee. I just prepped, heated & served.)

Zentangle

“TLC – Zentangle using claire, tipple, vache, ornaments & bubble love.

I didn’t have a chance to Zentangle either.  Again, I channeled my creativity into food yesterday. So I guess that means 2 tangles are needed today …

Here’s one I’m not sure I had shared yet though. I was thinking of my fellow poet & friend, TL Cooper, when I created this one. – I’m thinking last Sunday? Monday? One of those days, as I was anticipating our Tuesday afternoon. I’m not sure what number this one will be -yet (they go in order of creation) however, given that her logo, agline and intials – I think the working title of this will be “TLC”

Lastly – a look at last night’s shananagins … the Salem Art Walk’s first Steampunk Masquerade Ball!

SteamPunk Masquerade Ball Nov 11, 2017 at the Reed Opera House Ballroom.

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The funniest part of the evening was when my Art Walk friend, Janet, made a blooper and I heard her mutter “Dammit, Janet” in the best Rocky Horror Picture Show style!

  Day 12 – Almost Week 2 and the struggle is real … I really admire how Robert Lee Brewer creates a poem to share with each of his PAD prompts.

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Day 9 Write If It's November

Day 9 Write If It’s November

RLB’s prompt Nov PAD prompt is “(blank) if (blank).

And with that my poem for the day will start :

write if it’s november

bleed black ink onto a naive page

fall like a leaf shed from a wind-rattled leaf

have words melt like raindrops into a river …

November’s Poem-A-Day Challenges

NovPAD prompt : take the phrase “(blank) If (blank),”replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase…

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Day 8 NovPAD 1 week down

Day 8 NovPAD 1 week down

So the first week of the challengees is now offocially in the bag. How you holding up?

As for me, the housework is slipping as the writing steps up. My projects are revving up; the poeming, the novel-writing, the art … and the demanding weather-proofing that November’s weather demands.  (more…)

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Day 5 NovPAD & NaNoWriMo Party Day ...

Day 5 NovPAD & NaNoWriMo Party Day …

So Nov 5th … or Day 5 as I call it. 🙂

I’m starting to get in the groove of writing – and as I’ve done in the past – the more I producive I am at writing, the more productive I am at the non-writing chores.   Of course, some is the natural procrastination we writers have: Choice A: Wash out the garbage bins that now has it’s own culture thriving in their depths or Choice B Write your character out…