Another week into the nerdlution and I’m falling behind in one of my promises to myself. Exercise! Ugh! It’s always a challenge for me to fit. it. in. And the cold weather hasn’t helped. But this week has been better; I made it to Curves Monday and Wednesday mornings, Yoga class on Tuesday, and Zydeco dance lessons on Wednesday night. I’m even feeling a little sore. Learning to do the alligator walk does a job on your calves.
My attention to my OLW Open is working out pretty well. I try to attend the Acadiana Wordlab each week. On Saturday, the workshop leaders were two young actresses from an Improvisation Group, Silverbacks Improv Theatre. These girls were amazing actresses! We played the craziest games. In one of the games, we each added a line to a story; In another, we could only add one word. I participated even though I felt absolutely ridiculous and totally out of my comfort zone. As always in Wordlab, the writing was unique to the writer and wonderful.
And that leads me to my third nerdlution: writing every day. This has been easy with Laura Shovan’s daily color prompts. At her site, Author Amok, she is posting different color swatches from Pantone colors to prompt poetry. If we send her our poems, she posts them the next day. I have been feeling so famous all week as she daily posts one of my poems and tags me on Twitter and Facebook. Some other blog-friends are playing along, too. (Linda Baie and Diane Mayr) Please take a look at her post for today as it features one of my poems from my book Illuminate.
Let the nerdlution continue. Thanks to Michelle Haseltine for hosting the nerdlution round up every Thursday. Click here to read more.
I think it’s so hard to get out there and exercise when the weather is bad. It’s so much cozier to stay inside where it’s nice and warm. đŸ™‚ I’m going to check out Author Amok now. I’m having some fun exploring new writing opportunities. Have a good week!
I hope you will try out writing to a color. I love seeing the variety of responses.
Congratulations on having your poems published! It is a great feeling. Thank you also for sharing resources with us that we can use as writing prompts! I also find that excising gives me more energy; plus observing other people can give all kinds of ideas for more writing.
Thank you for sharing! I, too, am going to check out Authors Amok. My favorite line is ” I have been feeling so famous all week as she daily posts one of my poems and tags me on Twitter and Facebook.” I totally get that! I can feel your joy in these words!