A mountain of #writephoto prompts have gone through and I’m going to pick and choose for a while, just to get back in the swing of posting again. And stick to nice short haikus, then maybe some short fiction later.
Reflections on the #AtoZChallenge2021, Camp NaNoFinMo, #writephoto and #IWSG
Reflections on an extremely busy month of April! I decided to wrap all my thoughts into one blog post and make it my IWSG post, too. Insecure Writers Support Group Each month there is also an optional question as a
V is for Verse Forms #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Verse forms–of which haiku is one. I mentioned earlier this month that I’d found a whole list of Japanese verse forms: it’s not just haiku. First let me do today’s haiku, which sprang almost immediately into my brain as I
S is for Saurus #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Saurus is the Greek for lizard, which is why the dinosaurs were named after them. Tyrannosaurus=tyrant lizard, and the Rex is the king of them. Brontosaurus is Thunder lizard. The plural Sauria forms the sub-order of lizards under the reptile
H is for Haiku #writephoto #AtoZChallenge 2021
Haiku is a Japanese verse form. Apparently there are lots of different verse forms, and I came across a list of them somewhere recently, but I’ll have to search to find it again. Haiku in my books I’ve been doing
The Cheshire Bunny #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
The Cheshire Bunny is my take on this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. It’s also my second AtoZ post for C! Here’s the photo: If you saw last week’s you’ll know that I’m in a little run
Monday haiku | Neptune fishing #writephoto
My Neptune fishing haiku today is inspired by KL Caley’s picture for the #writephoto prompt – published last Thursday. I’m having trouble keeping up at present. I just uploaded the final Messenger Misadventures file to the Princelings of the North
Carrying The Fire | #writephoto continues
KL Caley at New 2 Writing is carrying the fire — taking on the #writephoto weekly photoprompt, devised and run by Sue Vincent for over 5 years. Of course we miss Sue’s input, but she said on her blog announcement:
Memory | Haiku #writephoto from 2020
Memory was the #writephoto prompt from 27 February 2020. Last week I hoped Sue’s eyes would improve to enable her to blog again. This week she wrote what she thought would be her Last Post, since the failing eye is
Returning | Haiku #writephoto from January
Returning was the returning writephoto challenge from Sue Vincent in January. I caught up with the second one. Now Sue is having eye trouble and has had to skip blogging for a while till that’s sorted. I know how close
Haiku | Deeper – for this week’s #writephoto
Deeper and deeper into the mire of work backlog… it’s WEP week, so I wasn’t ready to do a second flash fiction in response to Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt. Apart from the WEP flash fiction for Wednesday, which I’ve been
Ten Years of Jemima’s Drivel – A WEP+IWSG Grave Mistake
Grave mistake is today’s WEP prompt, but first… Haiku Ten years pass in flash— plus reviews, news and info… Jemima Pett blogs! Ten years of my drivel or wittering or, if you’re kind, stories The trouble with blog anniversaries is
Book blurbs in Haiku form – what do you think?
Book blurbs in haiku form is maybe not the most obvious way of summarising one’s output. The idea came from Librarything. I joined Librarything several years ago, and used to post my reviews there, until I came up against a
U is Updating my biography #atozchallenge
Updating my biography – probably the first time I’d done it since I started blogging in 2011. My theme for 2019, in keeping with the A to Z’s tenth anniversary, is flashbacks. I’m posting from the seven previous A to
A is for Again – the A to Z Blogging Challenge 2018
Again? I thought I Articulated I wasn’t Addressing the A to Z Challenge Again this year. Well, blogging through the Alphabet each April Appears to be Addictive. It’s April 1st, and so we Advance on our Assault of the Alphabet,