#2020 Weekly Poetry Challenges
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thank you kenna for asking i love you <3 please tell me any books you're interested in reading as well
1. What are 2-5 already published fiction books you think you want to read in 2023?
bestiary by k ming chang because i was supposed to read it before 2022 ended. i'll list some that intimidate me most: rebecca, wuthering heights, p&p, go tell it on the mountain. DO NOT speak to me about whale weekly i'm so annoyed by how behind i am i'm two seconds away from giving up
2. What are 2-5 already published nonfiction books you think you want to read in 2023?
underland by robert mcfarlane 2023 is your year. h is for hawk by helen mcdonald 2023 is your year. women race & class 2023 is your year. why be happy when you could be normal 2023 is your year. they can't kill us until they kill us 2023 is your year.
3. Any poetry on your TBR? yes all the poetry i couldn’t get to this year: tommy pico (feed), donika kelly (bestiary), louise gluck (1962-2020), anne carson (autobiography of red), ocean vuong (time is a mother). it would be cool to attempt homer?
5. What 2023 new releases are you most looking forward to?
ALECTO THE NINTH OCTOBER 10TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (edit: NOT confirmed date but goodreads has it like that!) a day of fallen night by samantha shannon, chlorine by jade song, HOPEFULLY my favorite thing is monsters pt 2 by emil ferris and death valley by melissa broder. jenny odell has a new book coming but i'm afraid </3
6. Do you have any conceptual reading goals? E.g., I plan to read books on food history.
mostly i want to read the books that i've been meaning to read for years and years. even though i know i'm not gonna stick to it 100% i've got a list of priority books and a lot of them i've been wanting to read for at least 5 years or even more. i really wanna give all of those books a chance... this is a cop-out answer to a good question. i feel like i'm missing out on a lot! i want to strengthen my foundations be it in fiction or theory. and foundations usually come from older texts so that’s where i’m kinda directing myself. like i have a book entirely about genetics on the list cause that’s the basis for everything right and that's what i want to do for all of my interests read like, texts that will build me foundations for the rest
8. Are there any reading challenges you want to try? have not found a challenge where i like all the prompts (and if i'm doing a challenge i would like to do all the prompts RIGHT) so i had sketched out one of my own where i mixed and matched mostly from the popsugar challenge and ended with like 35 prompts but i'm not sure if i'll stick to it!
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FLP is collaborating with Rosemary’s House again this year in stunning Greece. Make sure to use the affiliate code FLP XRH
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August 16th-24th: Mentor Krishan Trotman
Krishan Trotman is the Vice-President and publisher of Legacy Lit. She joined Hachette Books in 2016. In 2020 she launched Legacy Lit, an imprint dedicated to books that give voice to issues, authors, and communities that have been marginalized, underserved, and overlooked. This includes BIPOC authors, all women, and any group that they believe deserves a spotlight. She is the co-author of the Queens of the Resistance series and she has been featured in New York Times, Essence Magazine, New York Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Salon, Shondaland, Cheddar TV, MSN, CSPAN, and more.
September 6-13th: Mentor Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection Sour Heart and the poetry collection My Baby First Birthday. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and an O. Henry award. Her work appears in The New York Times, Poetry, Harpers, N+1, Best American Poetry, and other publications. She’s written television and film for A24, HBO, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Stanford University.
September 24-31: Mentor Adam Leipzig
Adam Leipzig is a filmmaker, producer, educator, and author. He has been a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios, the president of National Geographic Films, and has worked independently as a producer, distributor, or supervising executive on 38 films that have disrupted expectations, including March of the Penguins, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dead Poets Society, Titus, The Way Back and A Plastic Ocean. Adam's movies have won or been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 11 BAFTA Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Emmys, 2 Directors Guild Awards, 4 Sundance Awards, and 4 Independent Spirit Awards.
September 24-31: Mentor Ben Taub
Ben Taub is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He has written for the magazine about jihadism, crime, conflict, climate change, exploration, and human rights, on four continents and at sea. In 2020, he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his work on the lasting effects, on former detainees and guards, of American abuses in Guantánamo Bay. He has also received a National Magazine Award, two consecutive George Polk Awards, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and other honors, and his work has appeared in recent editions of “The Best American Magazine Writing” and “The Best American Travel Writing.” Taub also received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30, and was named one of Forbes's 30 Under 30 in Media.
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Sunday 5 March 2023
For Christmas I received a large and beautiful hardback book which contains a nature poem for every day of the year. I’ve got to admit that I’m not a poetry person and up to now at least, I’ve found the content extremely challenging, so the gift giver, Ms Nature Watch the elder, threw down the gauntlet and said, can you do better?
Well, I won’t say better, but I can do different, a present-day take on the same title and so I chose to write one poem for the birthday of each person close to me. The first in the year is my late father’s birthday.
Forever associated with spring, daffodils are a welcome sign that warmer days are ahead. An inspiration to artists across the centuries and entangled in myth and symbolism, there’s much more to these bright and cheery trumpets than meets the eye. I found an article with some fascinating and unusual facts about one of our most popular springtime blooms. It was published by the seed and bulb sellers, Suttons, so thanks to them for the following.
What do daffodils symbolise?
Daffodils are among the first flowers to appear as spring approaches, so it’s no surprise that they’re the birth flower for March as well as a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings. But daffodils have also represented many other ideas over the years. The Victorians, for example, considered them the flower of respect and friendship.
Traditionally given on a tenth wedding anniversary (I never heard that before) florists often add daffodils to these celebratory bouquets as a symbol of faith, joy and happiness. However, in days gone by, presenting someone with a single daffodil was seen as bad luck, while observing a bloom as its head drooped used to be thought to herald death. I never heard of that either, but then I’ve never known of anyone give a single daffodil to anyone.
That apart, daffodils remain primarily associated with hope. At the start of 2020 they were the inspiration for David Hockney’s daffodil artwork. Drawn on an iPad during the first COVID-19 lockdown, the piece was titled: ‘Do Remember They Can’t Cancel The Spring’. You can also see it here at The Art Newspaper.
Daffodils as medicine
Originating in the Mediterranean, daffodils are said to have been brought to the UK by Roman soldiers who used them for pain relief and wound healing. We know now that this is unlikely to have helped, as all parts of the daffodil are toxic and should not be consumed. Prolonged exposure to the sap can cause dermatitis.
That said, daffodils do contain the compound galantamine, which has been found to slow the progression of dementia symptoms. In certain parts of the UK, like the Black Mountains in Wales, daffodils are grown specifically to produce a treatment for Alzheimer’s. How incredible.
It’s very fitting that the daffodil is the national flower of Wales and is proudly worn on 1st March to celebrate St David’s Day.
Daffodils in poetry
We’re all familiar with the poem ‘I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud’, William Wordsworth, having taken a walk in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy, describes his feelings upon seeing ‘a host of golden daffodils’ growing at the edge of a lake. A lesser-known fact is that the poem was also inspired by his sister’s journal entry, and that the middle two lines of the final stanza were written by Wordsworth’s wife, Mary Hutchinson.
The Cornish daffodil industry
Bunches of daffodils have been sold in the UK for hundreds of years, but commercial farming of the flowers really took off in the late 19th century, courtesy of Cornish potato farmer William Trevellick. The daffodils around his farm on the Isles of Scilly bloomed much earlier than on the mainland, so he made use of the weekly freighter and the (then relatively new) Penzance to London railway link to get freshly-cut blooms to London within 48 hours of picking.
Island landowner Thomas Dorrien-Smith built on Trevellick’s idea by encouraging his tenant farmers to make bulb-forcing houses and transport boxes for the flowers, and also brought in different varieties to extend the flowering season. This in turn inspired mainland farmers to start planting bulbs, and the world’s largest daffodil grower, Varfell Farm, is still in operation today in Penzance, Cornwall.
Establishing the difference between ‘daffodil’ and ‘narcissus’ seems to cause confusion (throw ‘jonquil’ into the mix if you want to increase the head-scratching). To clear this up, daffodils and jonquils are the common names of spring-flowering bulbs that are members of the genus ‘Narcissus’ (the botanical Latin name for this group of plants)
Daffodils in Greek mythology
The name ‘Narcissus’ comes from a Greek myth about a hunter who spurned all romantic advances and then fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to tear himself away, he died and a narcissus flower grew where his body had been. The way that daffodil heads tilt towards the ground is said to mimic Narcissus dropping his head to gaze at his reflection. This story is also the origin of the term ‘narcissism’, which describes someone who is selfish, overconfident, and obsessed with their personal appearance.
Wild daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) are sometimes called Lent Lilies, as they commonly bloom and die back between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. There are over 50 species of narcissus in existence and thousands of hybrids and cultivars. They come in a wide variety of colours, shapes and scents and I’ve never met one I didn’t like. Our own are slow to bloom compared to other local areas. I’ve seen lots of vibrant patches along with the snowdrops and odd drifts of crocus. We’re officially in meteorological spring now, even if the weather doesn’t seem to agree with that. Roll on Spring proper please
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COLLEEN'S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 192, #THEMEPROMPT
COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 192, #THEMEPROMPT
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Kerfe Roig from last month’s challenge picked the theme…
This month’s theme is: Maps
On the Monday before the next challenge, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme.
For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the Poetry Challenge…
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#5lines#CinquainPoetry#Etheree#Haibun#Haiga#Haiku#micropoetry#Nonet#poetry#Prose#Senryu#Shadorma Gogyohka#Tanka#TankaProse#ThemePrompt#"Maps"#2020 Weekly Poetry Challenges#Tanka Tuesday
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Colleen's Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge 6/24/2020: The Soldier and Story Traci Kenworth
Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge 6/24/2020: The Soldier and Story Traci Kenworth
“…Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time…”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Soldier
a man
broken, battered
wins valor on the field
he gives all, defends all gladly
hero
Adam struggled to raise his head. He didn’t know how long it’d been since the bomb dropped. The other men beside him lay or toppled…
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Nosebleed Club returns!
Nosebleed Club: A creative collective aimed at inspiring, supporting, encouraging, and celebrating writers and artists of all backgrounds.
Original Run: From 2013 to 2019, Nosebleed Club was a Tumblr writing community created and curated by Stefan (@teamcaptains, then and now) which provided inspiration, prompts, and activities to writers and artists of all ages. Initially conceived as a collective of roughly 40 writers and artists, Nosebleed Club began posting prompts to its numerous followers in 2015, and became an open community in 2016.
Along with weekly “Discussions” (a set of five prompts) and various other prompt sets, Nosebleed Club regularly accepted prompt requests from its community. As well, the Nosebleed Club community worked together to produce two amazing collaborative community poetry books, set up a space to promote self-published chapbooks, and even created a novel-writing support group for National Novel Writing Month.
After briefly stepping away from the nosebleedclub username in December 2019 due to personal reasons, Stefan returned to it in November 2020. Now back in good hands, and working together with friends, Nosebleed Club looks forward to inspiring creative minds both familiar and new to the community.
Now: In this new decade, Nosebleed Club is back to inspire and support. As before, we are committed to nurturing a welcoming and safe space for writers and artists of all experiences. Along with Discussion prompts, prompt requests, and writing challenges/activities, we plan to further encourage community interaction and collaboration. Writing and creating art can be a lot more fun when you do it with friends!
We value sincere, original work above all and don’t adhere to any one aesthetic. We invite writers who write raw stuff, experimenters, and adherers to strict poetic forms. We look forward to reading about softness, violence, and the very weird. We welcome academics, dark and light. We love photographers, filmmakers, and illustrators. And much, much more.
More than ever, we are here to grow, share, and challenge our community members’ creative journeys. We’ve got plans to engage writers and artists in ways that we didn’t during Nosebleed Club’s first run---a secret for now. We’re excited about Nosebleed Club’s rebirth and hope you are too. Welcome, and please keep on creating!
Sincerely,
The Nosebleed Club Team
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This year has been a rough and challenging year to say the least, but amidst all the negativity there have been some glimmers of hope and positivity. This platform was created as a safe haven for all poets and writers to come, connect and of course to see that no one is truly alone during these trying times. As this year comes to a close, I want to take the time to thank and appreciate those who helped me see this vision all the way through. WUTI and it’s members have brought to life a weekly escape through what we call "Poetic Therapy".
Tonight we will leave behind 2020 and soon welcome in 2021. Stay tuned in because WUTI has a lot more to come in 2021......
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Anybody who would like to come and be part of our community of friends and poets/writers our doors are open to everyone
Contact @imperiallefty , @disruptivebychoice , @hellorheels , @quiet-storm132 for more details
I am sure that i am forgetting some people but just know that either i THANK YOU ALL!!!
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Hello Everyone!
A day like today 20 years ago the first novel of our beloved series was published in November 2000. This is an incredible anniversary and that’s why we’ll celebrate the whole month with events!
I hope you can join this special occasion and contribute a little bit by sharing your posts and art here in tumblr.
This is not the first event run by this blog, if you want to see what we did in previous years you can visit my tags MA Event, MA Event 2017 and MA Event 2018.
The dynamic of the events is to have some deliver themes and inspiration divided in different sections. This event will run weekly, except for the last week of the month when we’ll have daily content shared to inspire you even more.
Please save the date around the last weekend of November for our Live Chat! I’ll post more information about the exact date and time along the next weekly posts.
Update: Live Chat Sunday 29 at 1am Buenos Aires timezone GTM-3
You can check online comparing with your time zone here.
We’ll meet and chat, share opinions, and play some games or draw together!
20th Anniversary MA Event - First Week Activity
Share your MAlove, share your MArt!
From November 1 to November 8
This week we’ll draw fanarts, write fanfics or make any other kind of media to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series. We have list of 365 prompts in case you need a little bit of extra inspiration, please check under the cut and try to mix anything you pick with a festive mood to make it really special ;D
Remember to tag your posts with #MAnniversary 2020 and #MA Event
Links to the weekly event’s posts:
First Week (in this post)
Second Week
Third Week
Fourth Week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Prompts:
01. Introduction
02. Love
03. Light
04. Dark
05. Seeking Solace
06. Break Away
07. Heaven
08. Innocence
09. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold my Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Fanart
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can’t
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
101. Hello World
102. Fear
103. Anger
104. Regret
105. Happiness
106. Love
107. Family
108. Friendship
109. Home
110. Childhood
111. Adulthood
112. Birth
113. Death
114. Me
115. You
116. Thoughts
117. Emotion
118. Sun
119. Rain
120. Thunder
121. Noon
122. Midnight
123. Twilight
124. Rooms
125. Window to the Soul
126. Games
127. Halo
128. Serenity
129. Firefly
130. Phone
131. Movie
132. Television
133. Plants
134. Freedom
135. Forgetfulness
136. Remembrance
137. Memorial
138. War
139. Fight
140. Loss
141. Winning
142. Losing
143. Nature
144. Hurricane
145. Storms are brewing
146. Lightning
147. Colors
148. Bravo
149. Punishment
150. Picture
151. Another Wolfs
153. The Life You Dream Of
154. Dreams
155. Tears
157. Smiling
158. Laughing
159. Crying
160. Looking in the Mirror
161. Steam
162. Candy
163. Cats
164. Dogs
165. Glasses
166. Orbit
167. Satellite
168. Stars
169. Jade
170. Emerald
171. Gems
172. Dreaming Out Loud
173. Insomnia
174. Rabbits
175. Snake
176. Borders
177. The Year
178. This Time
179. Last Time
180. Forever and a Day
181. Sometimes
182. Always
183. Power
184. Weakness
185. Green
186. Purple
187. Blue
188. Sight
189. Blindness
190. Hurtful
191. Stages of grief
192. Arguments
193. Country
194. Frog
195. Forest
196. River
197. Flying
198. Mountains
199. Snow
200. Goodbye
201. Heart of Glass
202. My Life
203. Me In a Nutshell
204. Forever Yours
205. True Colors
206. My best friend’s girl
207. Impossible Love
208. Forgiveness
209. Fibers of Our Lives
210. Challenging Dream
211. Living My Dream
212. Forgetting Myself
213. Saving Grace
214. Lonely
215. Unbalanced
216. See-saw
217. Math
218. Match Making
219. Beyond Good and Evil
220. Second Sight
221. Double Take
223. Upon Review
224. Losing You
225. Baseball
226. Shouting
227. Farmland
228. Heartland
229. Brick Wall
230. Glass Houses
231. Eyes
231. Ring
233. Circle
234. Square
235. Boxes
236. Moving
237. Well Being
238. Insanity
239. Repetition
240. Learning
241. Class
242. Flowers
243. Special
244. Snowflakes
245. The Man They Call Jayne
246. Malicious
247. Pretty on the Outside
248. The Outside
249. Thankful
250. Neglect
251. Remorse
252. Embracement
253. Reflecting on My Life
254. Space
255. Constellation
256. Collection
257. Magic
258. Thrill
259. Attack
260. 20 Seconds to Mars
261. Unable
262. Foolish
263. Science
264. Sign of Life
265. Motto
266. Me
267. Balloon
268. Self Esteem
269. Narcissism
270. Ideology
271. Pageantry
272. Keeping Up With the Jones’s
273. Crack in Your Armor
274. Spilling Your Guts
275. Lean on Me
276. Crippling Emotion
277. Biggest Fear
278. Prejudices
279. Fresh
280. Corn
281. Sugar
282. Ice Cream
283. Accents
284. Speech
285. Writing
286. Doom
287. Shape
288. The Real You
289. My Name Is ____
290. Who are You on the Inside
291. Hidden Hatred
292. Hanging
293. Jacket
294. Jail
295. Stepping Up to the Plate
296. Star Player
297. My Hero
298. Castle
299. Losing Yourself
300. Finding Hope
301. Pirates
302. Fallen Angel
303. Drowning Lessons
304. Ghosts in the snow
305. Rawr.
306. Pidgeons… Birdy
307. Broken Hearts Parade
308. Paranoid
309. Vampires
310. Betrayal
311. Emmi&Rumura
312. The three friends
313. Horror
314. Mirror
315. Candlelight
316. Spider moneky
317. Devil
318. Flowers
319. Teddy Bear
320. Mist
321. Kingdom Hearts
322. Ferret
323. Vanilla
324. Thunder
325. Pinto Pony
326. M&Ms
327. Killer
328. Grass
329. Peace
330. Chibi
331. Mr. Klaw, polite Lion
332. Eternal
333. Star girl
334. Hats
335. Calvin & Hobbes
336. Misery (A cup full of something… unknown )
337. Hot chocolate
338. My Chemical Romance
339. Light in the darkness
340. Laughter
341. Nightmares
342. Necklace
343. Fire
344. Clorotaint and Treegirl
345. Swirls
346. Pokemon
347. Friends
348. Double Trouble
349. Do not cross
350. Unknowing
351. Chocolate
352. Time
353. A phone
354. Little kids on a playground
355. Darkness
356. A purple lady
357. Writer’s block
358. The dark corner in my room that I go to cry at (and a unicorn)
359. Sunglasses
360. The sun relaxing by an air conditioner
361. A girl fleeing from her nightmares
362. A girl staring at a blank canvas
363. A visual representation of poetry
364. Trolls
365. A hat
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Choices November Challenge 2020
Since no one seemed to be interested in hosting, I present the November challenge. However, it ends a bit early, stopping when the Sibling Appreciation Month(ish) begins.
⟢ 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬:
Every form of work can be submitted: fanfiction, drabbles, moodboards, edits, drawings, poems, songs, sketches, and more—all are welcomed.
Every book and story from the Choices (and Pixelberry) universe are welcome (new and old alike)!
You do not need to participate daily or even weekly.
List what prompt/day you’re submitting.
If your work is NS*W please label it as such and use appropriate warnings. I would also appreciate it if the adult content was hidden under the page break.
You can get creative with the prompts. It can be a variation of the word and/or concept. It doesn’t have to be exact or literal. If the word inspires a train of thought that led you to something different, put that in the notes and send it in! Have fun with it! Make them work for you! The ultimate goal is just to find joy in creating!
If you want to participate in a day that has already past, that is fine, just note that in your post and I will still reblog it and then edit the masterlist for that day to include our post.
Please tag @choicesmonthlychallenge and if you’d like to add me you can do so as well~ @lovealexhunt (feel free to DM me your work too since Tumblr tags are fickle)
⟢ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬:
Day 01: Harvest
Day 02: Reading
Day 03: Leaves
Day 04: Open
Day 05: Healing
Day 06: Maze
Day 07: Farmer’s Market
Day 08: Poetry
Day 09: S’mores
Day 10: Winning
Day 11: Quiet Evening
Day 12: Hayride
Day 13: Chill
Day 14: Acorn
Day 15: Motivate
Day 16: Chrysanthemums
Day 17: At the movies
Day 18: Waiting
Day 19: Shadow
Day 20: Detective/Crime
Day 21: Always
Day 22: Wonderful
Day 23: Reflection
Day 24: Baking
Day 25: Winter’s Coming
*Starts Sibling Appreciation Month(ish)*
Day 26: Baz and Zaid Mirani (Open Heart)
Day 27: Zoey Day & Luz Mendez (Mother of the Year)
Day 28: Chris & AJ Powell (The Freshman Series)
Day 29: Noah & Jane Marshall (It Lives)
Day 30: MC, Harry Foredale, and/or Edmund Marlcaster (Desire & Decorum)
#choices#playchoices#the royal romance#bloodbound#it lives#open heart#open heart 2#the nanny affair#queen b#bolas#mother of the year#the royal heir#ms. match#rising tides#mtfl#the unexpected heiress#distant shores#With Every Heartbeat#perfect match#the elementalists#choicesnovemberchallenge#choices november challenge#november2020
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Image description: An image listing the themes for Puzzle-June 2019. A full list of themes for those with screen-readers can be found here.
Heads up, guys! Puzzle-June kicks off this Monday!
Puzzle-June is an entire month dedicated to puzzleshipping, the Yu-Gi-Oh! pairing featuring Pharaoh Atem & Yugi Mutou. This year our prompts come a bit late, but we hope that many of you will still join in on the fun, and that this can be a helpful distraction from the chaos happening around us.
This is just a reminder about some of the “rules” of this ship month:
1. Each day has a themed prompt, but they are completely open to interpretation.
These prompts serve as inspiration, not as a hard guideline. Interpret them in any way you please, whether straightforward or obscure. Alternate universe content and crossovers are just as welcome as canon content.
2. Posting on the day of the prompt is encouraged, but not required.
This month is a celebration of puzzleshipping, not a challenge. If you cannot finish a prompt on time, take the time you need. Don’t stress yourself out. And do feel free to work ahead! There’s no need to make your creation on the day - just try to post it then, if you have it finished!
3. You do not have to fulfill every prompt. In fact, if you like, you can just do the weekly prompts instead!
There is no minimum or maximum requirement. You can make as many or as few fanworks as you would like! Interpret the prompts according to how you see them, and create something that you are proud of.
4. There is no set form of media for interpretation.
Interpret the prompts in any form of media that you would like! You can choose painting, fanfic, poetry, paper cutting, songs, shadow boxes, or any other media form you can think of!
5. And finally, make sure to post your works in the challenge tag so everyone can see and appreciate your work!
Post your art, fanfic, playlists, etc. on Tumblr, Instagram, and Twitter with the hashtag “#puzzlejune” so people can find your work! For each individual theme tag, add the theme name together with puzzle in order to create the tag! For example, the first prompt for the month is “doors”, so the tag would be “#puzzledoors”.
An additional note: this is our second year straight doing puzzlejune, so we will also be using the tag “#puzzlejune2020.” Feel free to tag your posts with this as well!
If you plan on participating or just want to help boost this to others, please reblog this post and share it wherever you can! With just a few days left before June, we want to get word to as many fans of our favorite pairing as possible.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a message! Our mods are happy to help however we can, and others may have the same question you do.
And finally, if you’re on twitter or instagram, feel free to follow us there! Once the month kicks off, we plan to retweet, favorite, and signal boost as many works tagged with #puzzlejune as we can!
P.S. If you’re a fic writer, our 2020 AO3 collection is here! Feel free to add your fic to the collection so everyone’s can be collected in one place!
#puzzlejune#puzzlejune2020#puzzleshipping#yugi mutou#atem#pharaoh atem#blindshipping#yugioh#ygo#mod prince
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The 2020 Jinnobi Challenge is less than a month away!
here is a (somewhat) quick reminder about the 4th annual Jinnobi Challenge (previous master lists of submissions : 2017, 2018, 2019) happening in October!
When is it?: October 1 – October 28, 2019. Any Jinnobi work you submit must be complete and it must be submitted sometime during October 1 – October 28. You have from now until October to work on submissions. PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR SUBMISSION BEFORE THE CHALLENGE STARTS.
Who can enter: The challenge is open to writers, artists, and everyone in between. Art, poetry, photo manips, videos, gifsets, fanfiction, it’s all welcome. There’s no theme except it has to be Obi-Wan Kenobi/Qui-Gon Jinn.
How to enter: it helps me if you send me a message on here, or at this email: [email protected], letting me know you intend to participate, but you don’t have to give me a heads up. What you do have to do is message me with a link(s) to your work(s) once you’ve published it in October so I know to put you on the Master List.
You may use whatever social network or fanfiction site you are comfortable using. Please tag your work (if you can tag) with the tag Jinnobi Challenge 2020 or The Jinnobi Challenge 2020 whether it’s a fic, art, or a post and do not forget to send me the link so I can put it on the Master List.
Besides email, I can also be reached on A03, livejournal, dreamwidth, and DeviantArt, but I tend to check tumblr at least weekly so if you want a fast response, I recommend contacting me via that.
Rules:
1. No underage slash. (underage = below 18 years of age)
2. If you post anything triggering, please tag it with the appropriate warnings
3. Your fic must have a rating on it (the challenge is open to all ratings)
4. If you’re posting a long WIP, the first chapter must be posted on or after October 1, and the last chapter has to be posted before October 28, so I don’t recommend it unless you know you can get it done in that time.
Need Beta?: If you need a beta, let me know and I will pass the information on. I have a few people who are willing to beta submissions for this challenge so don’t hesitate to ask if you need or want one.
What if it’s a fic in a series?: if it’s a standalone story in a series than yes, it qualifies, just please no WIP.
What if it’s Obi/Qui/others? Or there’s Obi/other, Qui/other, but still Qui/Obi?: The main pairing should still be Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon, even if it’s poly, or if there are other partners or past/present relationships.
THERE IS ALSO A PRIZE YOU CAN WIN, CHECK OUT THAT INFO HERE
By the first week of November, I’ll put up a master post with links to all the amazing stuff everyone has created!!!
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Introduction
I wrote a poem nearly every week of 2020 for the journal of the tiny Episcopal church I attend. Most of them were sonnets, a form I chose for its brevity. The poems were intended to be an update on the community garden, a little 100x100ft plot in the middle of south San José that I help run with my friend Arike. It’s a haven for a few dozen mostly Mandarin-speaking elders from the local low-income senior housing complex. They use their recycled fence-board garden beds to grow green onions for soup, taro for starch, crescent beans for protein, and purple-flowering peas for beauty.
The garden has existed in one form or other for two decades, nearly as long as the oldest members of the church have been attending. At one time or another it was: a vacant lot; a Girl Scout troop’s project; a Marine’s weekend challenge for his new recruits to prove they could dig holes and pour concrete; a volunteer-site for students at Calero High School’s special education program.
One couple from the church collected coast live oak acorns decades ago and tossed them around the campus; now, dozens of oak trees grow, harboring blue jays and hummingbirds, towhees and robins, shoulder-high great blue herons and California native bees.
In January of 2020, when I was elected to the vestry, I decided to give weekly updates in the journal a parishioner’s grandson puts out for us every Friday. I like to write, 1000 words on the page or 2000 edited every day, but I wanted to respect my fellow parishioners’ time. I figured a sonnet, 14 lines, 3 quatrains and a couplet, would ensure I kept my updates to the point. They got even shorter as time went on, shifting from 5 iambs to 5 syllables a line, when I realized how the journal’s formatting was creating unintended enjambments.
I was aware, by Valentines Day, that this was a year I might want to take notes on. Anne Lamott refers to all writing as taking notes, so in a very basic way, each week when I wrote my poem — awake from nightmares at 6:30am, tapping on my phone; sitting in the quiet of the garden with the sun flaring warm through the oak leaves; cuddling my fat cats on the couch; working in my own garden — I tried to think of one small, gem-like image from the week that I would want to remember. Then I wrote that into a poem.
Like most of us, on Valentines Day, I had thought and hoped that COVID-19 would be like the flu. Because I spent 10 hours a week most weeks helping and working alongside Mandarin-speaking elders, the danger and racism of the president calling it the “China virus” struck me much more quickly than the very real danger the virus posed to all of us.
The poems in this book chart the life of the garden through a year of pandemic. The names of my fellow gardeners appear in these pages, and as do the names of the many, many people who donated time, talent, and treasure to help keep the garden going. These poems were also the only way most of our community saw the garden, since we have not held an in-church service since March.
Our corps of volunteers grew throughout the year to about a dozen, coming to work in socially distanced shifts, planting seedlings, cutting back brush, building beds, moving dirt from pile to bed, and always, always, always weeding. We continued through the pandemic, through fires that turned the sky to crusty amber, through a terrifying presidential election, and through a busy schedule of attending and supporting protests for racial justice. Kneeling at protests and planting seeds in the garden often feel the same to me, as I wrote on June 5. They provide me a ground truth about what the world is, not what it seems to be in the news.
On July 17, 2020 I wrote:
what, then, is the point
of writing garden
poetry during a
global pandemic
what, then, is the point
of reading it? the
sky will be blue,
the plants we water
will grow green, those we
do not will dry brown,
or sleep and dream of
rain. why not ask the
purple lupins why
they grow from wildfire?
Those words feel romantic and dramatic, but that is what I love about the garden. The sweeping branches of the oaks are romantic, even when they dug bruises into my thighs as I climbed them to prune off their deadwood. The flowering of 8’ tall, crayon yellow Evening Primroses that I raised from seed is dramatic. In a year characterized by fear, confusion, danger, tedium, pain, loss, and small snatches of joy, the garden was, as I hope it will always be, a sanctuary.
— Jessica Dickinson Goodman
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FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Cantos, Incandescent by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
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Cantos, Incandescent is a testimonial that runs the gamut through a multitude of realities of war, illness, heartbreak, and more. Various territories and stark observations are painted in cultural textures and landscapes that are sometimes pastoral and at other times, unforgiving. The different voices in each piece dare the reader to witness their collective, unvarnished truths. There is something for everyone within these pages. The messages and concepts imparted in this book will remain long after the last words echo in the reader’s soul. #poetry
Rod Carlos Rodriguez has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is a poet, fiction, and non-fiction writer who has been writing for over 40 years. He has 3 books of poetry published: the award-winning Exploits of a Sun Poet (Pecan Grove Press, 2003), Lucid Affairs (Sun Arts Press, 2012), and Native Instincts (Human Error Publishing, 2016). He also has his upcoming 4th book of poetry, Cantos, Incandescent, that has been accepted for publication from Finishing Line Press. He is founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society, South Texas’s longest running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012, April 2014, April 2016, and April 2018. He was poetry editor for Ocotillo Review, a literary journal/periodical and he was the editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press).
PRAISE FOR Cantos, Incandescent by Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Cantos, Incandescent is a testament to family, rites of passage, bloodlines, and the preservation of culture and language. Rod Carlos Rodriguez honors and opens the wounds within his words of those that society overlooks and overshadows—those forgotten souls weaving together the intricate fabric of our collective histories while maintaining a backbone of beauty. Rodriguez never shies away or sugarcoats the truth, and readers, should you find yourselves flinching, I challenge you to sit within the deep hurt and love bleeding on each page—a heart split open for us to devour.
–Hillary Leftwich, author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock and Aura, a memoir.
Rod Carlos’ pages in Cantos, Incandescent are filled with poetic pioneers traveling through unsettling truths in certain territories. From the captured cries of the borderlands, his tonal passages reassure us that we are not alone in our moments of migrating through vulnerable terrains. Each poem is a nomadic glimpse into a scenic cache of nostalgia or the coursing fresh cuts of our inmost pain.
–Andrea ” VOCAB” Sanderson, San Antonio Poet Laureate 2020-2023
In this heartfelt collection of poems, Rod Carlos Rodriguez presents scenes gathered from landscapes that are both harsh and beautiful. The speaker’s voice holds the collective pain caused by heartbreak, illness, and war, “Tried to leave/ the desert where/ it was. It came with me”. These poems are songs in transit, that straddle the borders of land and of beliefs. Songs in the wind searching for meaning and a nurturing embrace, wishing “for one last lullaby”.
–Sarah Joy Thompson, Poet, author of The Everyday, the Mundane, and the Brave (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Driving into Black Mountains(FlowerSong Press, 2020).
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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge
Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition. Let it spark your imagination. Any character, any fandom, any original world. Reblogs welcome!
Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge! The link will appear in our feed and the site index, and your blog will be listed on the Participating Blogs page.
This week’s SFWC prompt:
Week of July 3, 2020:
Bingeing: A character can binge on nearly anything: shows; music; information; books, stories, or poetry; or yes, even food. A first cousin to obsession, to binge implies something more primal. Whatever your character is bingeing on, it's likely something they enjoy and are almost powerless to stop without outside interference--say, running out of episodes. Write about a time when your character or someone they know binged on something.
Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt. A masterpiece missed the deadline? Don’t let it gather electronic dust. Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.
This week’s prompt not for you? Look for something more to your taste in the Prompt Archive. Consider all the prompts active and waiting to inspire you.
This week’s featured previous prompts are:
Writer’s Revenge! “Do not annoy the writer. They may put you in a book and kill you.” When looking for inspiration for a minor or background character, or even an important adversary, why not borrow the aggravating habits of someone familiar to you? The chatterbox co-worker who can’t stop telling stories--but none of them are interesting. The neighbor whose garage band meets daily--and loudly--at six in the morning. This week, take the best revenge on someone who irritates you: make them a character in a story. Death, of course, is optional. Have fun!
Kissing Frogs: Fandom often revolves around romantic pairs, especially finding "the one": your character's soulmate. Surely they don't find their soulmate on the first try. They must have had other relationships. Ones that didn't work out or didn't last. What happened? This week, write a story about one of the frogs your character kissed on the way to finding their prince/princess.
Got an idea for a prompt? Submit it here.
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COLLEEN'S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 189, #POET'SCHOICE
COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 189, #POET’SCHOICE
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
A note to all my poets and readers: I’m switching back to the premium plan from the business plan and working with WordPress. The renewal for the business plan at $300 a year is much too steep for a struggling poet, like me… so, beware of glitches. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly. ~Colleen~
It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets,…
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Hourglass: A Haiku
The sands have drifted too far down
Drip-Drop
and the days they have marked cannot return.
https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/10/12/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-327-drip-drop/.
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