NaPoWriMo Day 22: Our (optional) prompt for the day asks to engage with different languages and cultures through the lens of proverbs and idiomatic phrases. Many different cultures have proverbs or phrases that have largely the same meaning, but...
NaPoWriMo Day 19: Today, our optional prompt challenges you to write a poem based on a “walking archive.” What’s that? Well, it’s when you go on a walk and gather up interesting thing – a flower, a strange piece...
NaPoWriMo Day 18: Our optional prompt for the day is to write an ode to life’s small pleasures. Perhaps it’s the first sip of your morning coffee. Or finding some money in the pockets of an old jacket. Discovering...
NaPoWriMo Day 13: Today, I challenge you to write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen. Maybe it’s something as small as your sister’s hairbrush (or maybe it was your sister’s boyfriend!) So, I want to confess to a...
NaPoWriMo Day11: Our optional prompt for the day is based on the concept of the language of flowers. Have you ever heard, for example, that yellow roses stand for friendship, white roses for innocence, and red roses for love? Well,...
NaPoWriMo Day 10: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku...
NaPoWriMo Day 3: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can generate this list however you’d like – pull a book off...
NaPoWriMo is finally here! Some light amidst darkness , I must say. So, we are sharpening our pencils, cleaning our notepads and of course oiling our minds 🙂 Here’s the prompt for Day 1 and we were also provided...
The only secret ingredient of the recipe of a wonderful day is a good attitude 🙂 I might end my day with Fatigued body, Worn-out spirits, Exhausted mind, Petulance and Shattered hopes But I always begin it with...
I don't like those … Who cannot look past one’s flaws, Seem judgmental about everyone Who blame others for their own state, Hold all relations at ransom Who live in a materialistic world, Without caring for others’ emotions Who...