Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week 1 - 5th

Throughout October I'll be posting a ghost-themed post every day

Week 1 is Writing prompt week and runs until the 7th October

For today's writing prompt choose one item from each category below to incorporate into a piece of writing:

A location:
A bus stop A derelict inn
Beside a fire
A hospital
A local park

A Colour:
Blue
Yellow Brown
Ivory
Pink


An Item:
False teeth
A scarf
A leather glove
A cracked mirror
A withered bouquet of flowers

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Today's ghostly word of the day is E for Ectoplasm. A viscous substance that supposedly exudes from the body of a medium during a trance and forms the material for the manifestation of spirits.

Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week 1 - 4th

Throughout October I'll be posting a ghost-themed post every day

Week 1 is Writing prompt week and runs until the 7th October

For today's writing prompt you are sitting alone in your favourite spot when something cold touches the back of your neck. What happens next?

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Today's ghostly word of the day is D for Disembodied. Separated from or existing without the body.

ROW80 - Round 4 - Goals get set go

Ok, round 4 of row80 has just kicked off. I'm setting my goals here and raising the stakes for myself, I think I'm crazy but a lot of stuff needing to be done spawned by the end of round 3 and there is no point writing if it doesn't get beyond my hard drive and my blog. This round is all about learning to juggle multiple projects and facets of writing.

1) Keep up with my 6x week yoga routine
2) Continue with studies
3) Complete spreadsheet data for novel in progress
4) Keep up with my daily ghost themed blog postings throughout October
5) Get up to date with backlog of poetry rewrites
6) Start submitting poems to the markets by the end of the year
7) Overhaul my website by the end of the year. I might save this for the christmas break seeing as I'll be off work for two weeks.
8) Write at least one new poem a week (may start this once October's out of the way and my blog schedule isn't so intensive)
9) Read and critique at least one poem a week
10) Get back in the reading habit.

Best of luck everyone and I can't wait to see how you're all doing.

Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week 1 - 3rd

Throughout October I'll be posting a ghost-themed post every day

Week 1 is Writing Prompt Week and runs until the 7th October

For todays writing prompt choose one of the images below to develop into a poem (or more if you wish):
Mist on a window pane
An overturned glass
A chain dangling from a tree branch
A child's doll lying in a road
An abandoned cart

Today's ghostly word is C for cargo cult. (in the Melanesian islands) A system of beliefs based around the expected arrival of benevolent spirits in aircraft or ships bringing cargoes of food and other goods.

Website Updates and blog updates

The following pages of the website have been updated:

Dark Metre Issue 9 has been uploaded to the current issue page.

Writing prompts have been updated.

Blog updates:
Recent posts you may have missed:

Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing prompt - Week 1 - 2nd
Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week 1 - 1st
A quick post on things to come.

A round up of September's posts:
Blogger Zombie Walk 2011 - My contribution to this zombie themed event included my poem Cold Hearted and a dream from my dream journal.
Book Review - Gorelets Unpleasant Poems by Michael A Arnzen
Book Review - One Buck Horror Vol 1
Book Review - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Book Review - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Book Review - The Ritual by Adam Nevill

Enjoy the halloween season

Halloween - Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week 1 - 2nd

Throughout October I'll be posting a ghost-themed post every day

Week 1 is Writing prompt week and runs until the 7th October

Use the following scenario below to inspire a ghostly themed poem or story:

A ghost is chasing you along an unlit lane. Why? For example did you steal something of theirs? Are they an old rival back from the dead? What other connections can the ghost have to you?

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Today's ghostly word is B for Banshee. A female spirit whose wailing warns of a death in a house.

October is Ghost Month - Writing Prompt Week - 1st

Throughout October I'll be bringing you a ghostly themed blog post every day of October to celebrate Halloween.

Why ghosts? my long fiction leans more towards the supernatural, I love ghosts and ghost stories. Out of all the horror tropes they are my number one. There's something more plausible about a ghost than a monster with sharp teeth for example. There's something creepy about being touched by a being that you can't touch back and what could be worse than going through life to become a ghost wandering aimlessly, trapped in neither one place nor another.

Week 1 - From the 1st October to the 7th October. I'll be setting Ghost themed writing prompts every day. All posts will also include a ghostly word of the day.

For today's prompt choose one item from each category below to incorporate into a ghost themed poem or story or any other form of writing you feel comfortable with:

A location:
Beach
House
Forest
Roadside
Attic

A Colour:
Red
Black
Green
Purple
White

An Item:
A locket
A body part
Photo
A wallet
A broken vase

Ok, get writing and have fun.

Ghostly word of the day. A is for atmosphere. A pervading tone or mood.

A quick post on things to come

I had great fun on the blogger zombie walk 2011, I still have some blogs to get round but I always find it amazing how different imaginations can interpret a common theme. Thanks to those of you who dropped by, commented and followed. You can view my zombie-themed post here

Throughout October I'm planning a ghostly blog post for every day of the halloween season. This has been a bit of a last minute decision so it will be interesting to see how well I do.

Week 1 will be dedicated to to ghostly writing prompts to get your creative juices flowing. The first of these will be up later today.

Week 2 will be dedicated to ghostly sightings and locations around England

Weeks 3 and 4 are still to be decided on perhaps a poetry week and a fiction themed week or  something akin to myths and legends.

Also if you are a writer and looking for a supportive community to keep you on track with your writing endeavours please consider A Round of Words in 80 Days run by Kait Nolan. Round 4 begins on Monday 3rd October. I'll also be participating again this round.

A new issue of Dark Metre goes out tomorrow. Read the current issue here before it disappears.

Enjoy the weekend.