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We’ve wrapped up the Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge. In this post I check-in after week 4 and the whole challenge, plus I'm including a bonus challenge prompt!

This month’s Poetry Writing Lessons post dives into Denise Duhamel’s playful “Poem in Which I Press Fast Forward.” Learn how to use parallel phrasing, couplets, and compressed time to generate new work. Perfect inspiration for November’s writing life—or as a prompt for the Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge.

Discover poetry lessons in genre blending from Celeste Fenton’s mystery-romance novel Lost Heart in King Manor. Learn how creativity thrives at the intersections of genres.

Not sure what to write today? Check out this calendar of 30 poetry and prose prompts to get you writing!

Welcome the Year of the Snake with creative writing prompts! Explore creativity through these snake-inspired writing prompts!

Here in Silicon Valley, the incredible heat wave of last week has passed and the cooler breezes of autumn are here. I'm enchanted. As I...

When I lived on the East Coast, I looked forward to the abundance of fall leaves each year. My girls and I would gather them, creating...

As I’ve been sorting through my poems with an eye at submission and a possible collection/chapbook, I’ve noticed the frequency with which...

I draw heavily from nature both when writing and creating visual art. Often the images that come to me when I create, while based on...

Throughout our lives, we experience Extraordinary things, events, people, and places. Just as I think of creative masterpieces and...

When your work involves being creative, it's hard to come up with new ideas day after day, hour after hour. To maintain a creative life,...

Happy Father's Day! To help celebrate all the fathers in our lives, here's a little writing inspiration using a photograph of a man and...

Today I had the privilege of spending time in one of my favorite places with my favorite people: a community creativity workshop.  This...

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

Some people swear by the messages in the stars, some find them amusing and harmless, and others find them offensive. No matter your take...

There are many parallels between writing and exercise. With both, it can be challenging to get started. We’ll swear tomorrow’s the day we...

Check out the original post on my Cupertino Poet Laureate website! It’s April, and that means it is National Poetry Month! Even though I...