OK, I skipped two Wednesdays in a row.  I have been super busy, but here is a new list on Monday!  Enjoy!

world country relief health down

service force mobilizing red human

work more stature friendly study

At the conference right now. A lot of good stuff here and, of course, it’s always cool to hang out with other writers. #alaskawritersconference

The words for this week are:

dance placed children alive frosty run hot village running paused streets waved hurry thump hills

Yay! Got another work published! Three Line Poetry accepted my poem, “Dark Clouds Descend Low.” Short, not quite haiku style, poem. See it in issue 33.

Another 15 words to inspire your next work.  Ready. Set. Go!

dependence curled seize conquest establishment

magazine fate behind lost race

error manager certify screw factory

Ha, the last two words are especially funny.  Good luck with that!

Right now I am working on a lot of fiction pieces.  I even have a couple nonfiction pieces in the works, too.  Not putting poetry on the back burner, but I have been inspired to use different forms of expression.  I even have a horror/Halloween inspired story I am working.  I have never written a purely genre work before.  I hope to post it when it is polished, complete, and, maybe even, published 🙂

Yea! My poem just got published this morning at Eunoia Review. Check out their Facebook page to see my work, “A Happy Poem.” Like them and get two works in your FB feed each day! FREE

This poem goes back to my SIU days. I believe it was even presented for workshop in Katherine/Katie Riegel‘s class (Yes, I found you!). I am pretty sure it was in the final portfolio at least. I have just recently started writing and submitting my old work after a very long break! This is the seventh poem I have had accepted in the last 4 months.

Now, get to work on more! Deadlines are looming. Enjoy!

15 new words to inspire the next project.  Join me if you wish!  Create the unexpected!

commodity barter identical turning squash fat boiler tigress fabric decay stamped tyranny mud silent whether

I both hate and love word list poems.  They are great for creativity.  How often do you reuse the same words and metaphors over and over again?  Check your last 5 works; you might be surprised.  I hate them because it can be difficult to incorporate most, if not all, words in the list into one poem.  Yet, I am up for the challenge.  Anyone else game?  🙂

To be fair, I am using a dictionary to pull these words.  OK, to be honest, it is a Russian-English dictionary.  Wait, don’t worry!  The words will be in English.  It is just way of making sure I pull enough random words as possible without bias.

Use as many of these as you can in a poem or story for next Wednesday.

12 words

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Good luck!

Jennifer