Make Something: Fruit or Veg
Walk into your kitchen and grab the first fruit or vegetable you see. What can you make? If I had been hungry, I probably would have doused these little tomatoes […]
Tag Archives: words
Make Something: Collected
Day 5 of Noah Scalin’s creative adventure challenged me to work with a collection found in my home. As I began to wander from room to room, I felt a […]
Make Something: For Another to Discover
For this fourth day of creativity, the challenge was to take a five-minute walk, then make something with whatever was at hand, wherever I wound up. The walk didn’t fit […]
Make Something: Paper
I wonder how often my little girls will be able to participate in this “Make Something” challenge over the next 365 days. They both had ideas for today’s prompt, but […]
Make Something: Animal Inspiration
The little girls didn’t produce work to save today. Between one’s Girl Scout hike in the rain and the other’s solo at a chorus concert, they were simply too busy. […]
Make Something: Small & “On Hand”
Yesterday marked the end of National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), which means my 30-day poetry jag is over. That’s not to say I’m done writing poems; no way. But now […]
Reflections on a year of daily practice
My year of poetry is complete. What next? I’m inviting family, friends, and “strangers” (is there any such thing, really?) into Just 99 Days of experimenting with daily practice. Will […]
Anatole France
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
Choice Words
Day 193 prompt: Amazing amazing phrase a tweet I found the words of which weren’t clean when I am cross I’ll say it loud this fine pro-fan- i-tee
Words Take Hold
Day 183 prompt: Athletic (With this poem, I am halfway through a year of writing one poem a day!) People have used many words to describe me Some objective Short Freckled […]
Eff It
Day 157 prompt: The Letter F if you eff it the air turns fair your act becomes fact the east gets to feast lower makes a flower the lame turns to […]
Rules of the Ode
Day 150 prompt: Rule of Thirds A well-composed photo Complies with the rule of thirds A well-composed poem Just needs the right words
Challenging Words
Day 98 prompt: Challenge/Challenging (a haiku) logophiles without dictionaries aggravate their Words with Friends foes
W
Day 74 prompt: the letter W wise, witty words will wash away my worries whether I wander another writer’s work or wrangle and whip my own
Beth Nyland 