Today’s Prompt: Today is a free writing day. Write at least four-hundred words, and once you start typing, don’t stop. No self-editing, no trash-talking, and no second guessing: just go. Bonus points if you tackle an idea you’ve been playing with but think is too silly to post about. URGENT VERSUS IMPORTANT. Blogging is likeContinue reading “Writing 101, Day Nineteen: BLOGGING: LESSONS LEARNT.”
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Most Influential Blogger Award: ‘Like a Room Without a Roof’! But ‘Slow’
A Very Musical Award I am very honoured and surprised that such an influential blogger as Ronovan should nominate me for the Most Influential Blogger Award! Check out his blog! You’ll find reflections on life, short stories, poems, and much more to inspire you to think and write… Here are the guidelines for acceptance. ToContinue reading “Most Influential Blogger Award: ‘Like a Room Without a Roof’! But ‘Slow’”
Writing 101, Day Sixteen and Seventeen: Loss and Fear
Twist one: Reflect on the theme of ‘Lost and found’. Twist two: Address one of your worst fears. Write this post in a style that’s different from your own. I’m combining both assignments today, by writing about both loss and fear, partly in my own voice, and partly in another voice. Elephant Graveyard The mostContinue reading “Writing 101, Day Sixteen and Seventeen: Loss and Fear”
The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Between City Trees
CITY TREES The prompt: Between. This week, capture something between two things, reflect on the process of transition, or interpret this word in your own way. Most streets in the city where I live have trees lining the pavements. I’m sure it’s wonderful for the passers by. They are shady, and pretty, and they provideContinue reading “The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Between City Trees”
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Crooked and Squiggly Lines
As every week, I’ve been looking for inspiration for Cee’s picture prompts in things I see every day. In this case, crooked and squiggly things around me. I finally came up with a couple of things. Firstly my baby orange tree. The oranges are tiny at the moment, and they won’t be fully grown andContinue reading “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Crooked and Squiggly Lines”
Flash Friday Challenge (20th June, 2014)
Last Friday 20th June, was the anniversary of the first day of Queen Victoria’s reign, although she was actually crowned a year later. I wrote a post about The Birth of the Victorian Era for this occassion. When I saw that the subject of the Flash Friday Challenge on 20th June was a cartoon includingContinue reading “Flash Friday Challenge (20th June, 2014)”
A Poem for the Second Day of Summer. Rereading Christina Rossetti’s Summer
I have a very soft spot for Christina Rossetti’s poetry, especially her short, intense verses, full of symbolism and feeling. Summer was published in The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems, in 1866 Summer Winter is cold-hearted, Spring is yea and nay, Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way. Summer days for me When every leafContinue reading “A Poem for the Second Day of Summer. Rereading Christina Rossetti’s Summer”
A Sonnet for the First Day of Summer. Rereading Shakespeare
This is a wonderful sonnet to celebrate the first day of summer. Enjoy! Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s leaseContinue reading “A Sonnet for the First Day of Summer. Rereading Shakespeare”
Writing 101, Day Fifteen: Your Voice Will Find You
Today’s prompt: You’re told that an event that’s dear to your heart — an annual fair, festival, or conference — will be cancelled forever (or taken over by an evil organization). Write about it. Today’s twist: read your piece aloud, multiple times. Hone that voice of yours! Well, here goes part 5! Yes, I’m keepingContinue reading “Writing 101, Day Fifteen: Your Voice Will Find You”
20th June, 1837. The Birth of an Era: Victorian Britain
On Tuesday, 20th June 1837, at 6 o’clock in the morning, Princess Victoria was awoken by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, because the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chamberlain wished to see her. She greeted them in her dressing-gown and slippers, and they informed her that her Uncle, King William IV had diedContinue reading “20th June, 1837. The Birth of an Era: Victorian Britain”
