Make Something: Disguise
This day’s “make something” assignment was to create a disguise. I’ve already created a mask of words, and I’ve played with camouflage twice (and this is just 29 days into […]
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Make Something: Ten-Word Love Story
At last! Three weeks into the year of making things, I encountered a storytelling assignment. “Write a ten-word love story,” prompts Noah Scalin in 365: A Daily Creativity Journal. I […]
Make Something: Microscopic
The instruction for the fourteenth day of making something is to go small. As small as possible. Microscopic even. I thought I had this one nailed. Driving home from a […]
Editing
you give it all you’ve got until you gave it all you had you put in all the words until there’s nothing left to add then you work with the […]
Musicians Love Play
As my grade-school-aged daughters came home from school today, the older one announced that today is Shakespeare’s birthday. She suggested I use that information with my business writing students during […]
Pardoned Poet
Yesterday I missed my date With a page of written words The kids were home The streets were flooding The whole day was a blur Poetry forgave me, though It’s […]
Everything through Play
(I didn’t have much time for composing poetry today. But while teaching a business writing class at StoryStudio Chicago, I stole a few moments to play with a magnetic poetry […]
Song Writer
(a haiku) clack smack thwack ching gurch daughter’s typing concerto music to my ears
My Book
I think I’ll write a book someday. I think I’ll write a book. I have ideas and things to say. I think I’ll write a book. I’m going to read […]
Crud Pressure
these words do not flow or tumble or rush they barely trickle from some constricted source oozing through cerebral arteries squeezed by crud pressure clots of obligation spasms of distraction […]
Just give us pause
English class taught me yes College prof told me no One boss adds it in Another says it must go Chicago Manual insists Before “and” is its place AP Style […]
A poet’s confession
Forgive me, Muse, for I have slumbered. It has been nine days since my last poem. After writing 366 poems in 366 days, I took a breather. I wondered if […]
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 […]
Join Me for 99 Days of Practice in 2013
Would you like to change a habit, start a hobby, or build a discipline? I’m gearing up for a new challenge in 2013, and I invite you to take part. […]
Enough Fluff
Day 331 prompt: Fluffy Do English teachers still demand a certain word count for students’ compositions? I’m sure thorough understanding and thoughtful arguments are their well-intended missions. But honestly, instructors must admit that all those […]
Beth Nyland 