Weekly Photo Challenge – Beginning
Posted: January 3, 2014 Filed under: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tags: Photography, postaday, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge 11 Comments
Beginning
Weekly Photo Challenge – Beginning
Part of a series of photographs from the same position at the same time, 7:30am, just before I start work for the day.
Been taking these for a while but now have the same format each time, Panasonic GX1 with the 20mm lens on a tripod, same ISO and aperture each time, but the exposure length differs. This regimentation of format has only recently started so the photos I’ve taken over the last couple of years were really just experiments.
Might share more as time goes by and I feel confident in linking with my real me.
Truth or Dare
Posted: January 3, 2014 Filed under: Poetry, Word of the Day, Writing Prompts | Tags: Poetry, postaday, Prompts, The Daily Post, Word of the Day, Writing 7 CommentsIs it possible to be too honest, or is honesty always the best policy?
Photographers, artists, poets: show us TRUTH.
His life was a lie
From the age of 22 to the day he died, his life was a lie
He lied about love, which he didn’t feel
He lied about hate, which wasn’t there
He lied so often he got depression from the believed lies
He lied casually, he lied seriously
He sometimes even enjoyed his knavery
He lied no matter what
His lies were small, his lies were large
His death was the only truth he had left
Exploring title, tag line and an about box
Posted: January 3, 2014 Filed under: Zero to Hero | Tags: Blogging, Daily Task, postaday, Thoughts, zerotohero 2 CommentsToday’s assignment: edit your title and tagline, and flesh them out more in a widget.
Looking at todays assignment I was very pleased as I had spent quite a lot of time thinking about the title of the blog as I had to ensure that I could get the matching domain name (www.wickedwords.co.uk) and I wanted it to be quite descriptive of my relationship with words.
The crafting of good writing feels as though it belongs to someone else for me, so the fact that I am writing and expressing myself, developing thoughts in prose seems very wicked to me.
Another factor is that one of my favourite genres of fiction is horror and I want to craft Wicked Words, tell a good ghost story, lead people down the garden path and send shivers up their spines.
As for the tagline I thought long and hard but really didn’t see the point of one as I was without a direction for my writing, but then it felt appropriate for it to be ‘one word at a time, one day at a time’ as that was the way the blog was progressing.
The about text was slightly easier as the last couple of days I’ve spent writing about me and what I was wanting to do with the blog.
Kick It
Posted: January 3, 2014 Filed under: Writing Prompts | Tags: 365, e-book, postaday, Prompts, The Daily Post, Writing 2 CommentsWhat’s the 11th item on your bucket list?
Until I saw this prompt on the e-book (see link above) I had never considered a bucket list whatsoever. I am reasonably comfortable with the fact that I’m going to die and like to live my life with that knowledge.
What this made me think about was, am I actually achieving everything I would like to do, am I savouring life to its full or am I comfortably going about life in a day-to-day routine, liking the comforts that I have and the people I’m around but never really pushing myself out of that comfort zone?
The answer is probably yes, I like my comforts and routine. So the next question was, do I want to push the boundaries, go places and do things that are outside that ever so comfortable and safe routine. The answer was a resounding Yes!
So the next thing to do was to set up a bucket list, this was harder than it sounds and I was in desperate need for some inspiration. I looked around and I found an app called iWish and started building a bucket list.
So far I’ve added:
- Plant a tree
- Put together a will
- Go to Ireland
- Go camping
- Win a photography contest
- Learn CPR
- Learn to meditate
- Take up yoga
- Achieve my ideal weight
- Find my life’s passion
- Write a book
- Go on an inner awakening retreat in India
- Spend a week at a silent retreat
- Start my own business
- Own a house by the lake
- Go on safari
- Learn Scuba diving
- Visit Australia
- Go to Paris
- Achieve my M.A. in Art History
- Visit all 7 continents
- Ride the Rocky Mountaineer train
- Visit Venice
- Visit Rome
- See all European capitals
- Learn to surf
- Dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Learn to sail
- Explore a martial art
- Sleep under the stars in Africa
- Explore rock climbing
- Canoe through the Amazon
- Dive Belize’s barrier reef
- Ride a Beach Cruiser bike on a beach
- Go Blokarting
- Learn Italian
- Learn Spanish
- Identify my strengths
- Do woodworking
- Learn to play the guitar
- Take dance lessons
- Learn to Salsa
- Learn Jewellery making
- Learn sewing
- Make an exhibition of my art
- Create a YouTube video
- Publish an article
- Write a travel book
- Write a biography
- Brew my own beer
- Learn Origami
- Watch the top 100 movies
- Be adventurous
- Meditate in a Buddhist temple
- Keep a journal
- Learn to knit
I know that is only 50plus items and traditionally it’s meant to be a 100, but I ran out of steam 🙂
So the 11th item on the list is “Write a book”, that is a beautiful one as it has always been one of those dreams that I’ve had in the back of my mind to do.
One of the main purposes of this blog is to improve my writing ability in lots of different areas and to find out what I’m most comfortable writing.
So the book could be a collection of reminiscences, poetry, short stories, or it could be a novel, travelogue, cook book. All these things I am interested in but not settled into a style or have a solid idea yet.
Part of developing the book will be to participate in this years NaNoWriMo which I’ve explored already this year and the whole year leading up to that month is to practice my writing, getting my word count up to the daily requirements of producing 1500 words a day to complete the 50000 word challenge. Another aspect of this year is to come up with ideas of what to write for the month, a few plot ideas would be great.
And hopefully I will complete it before I Kick It.
Wicked Words 