Nov 01, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLII 〜 Dinogourd OS Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 1 — “Palimpsest of Self.” DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partially erased and rewritten over, leaving faint traces of the old—to describe the s...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria The No November Miracle: The First-Morning // The Audit of Beginnings 8.05AMThere’s a kind of hush that only the first morning of a new month understands. The sky hasn’t had its tea yet. The neighbourhood dogs are still negotiating with the sun. And I’m standing at m...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Opt-in devotion: keeping the providence, skipping the roster of reverence? I’ve been thinking a lot about where I stand with (which?) religion these days. I still believe there’s something: a supreme power, a force bigger than us. That hasn’t gone away. I tinker with the ...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? [Compilation] I came across this prompt on the internet: Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? What began as a small exercise unraveled into a month-long excavation of language, memory, ...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 31. The Last Halloween OctPoWriMo Day 31. Happy HalloweenHere we are, Halloween. Congratulations!! I hope you’ve felt inspired and had a lot of fun.Example Poem: “All Hallows Eve” by William Baer from Poems Dead and Unde...
Oct 30, 2025 from Chaotican Writer 7 New TTRPG Experiences from GameHole Con 2025 Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright Bard Games, Storytellers Forge, Need Games, and Critical Kit Ltd! The post 7 New...
Oct 30, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 30. monster over heart OctPoWriMo Day 30. Fear from Out of SpaceThis year, James Wyman of Burlington Writers Workshop is offering a poetry 101 course, for free. When he sent out the syllabus he recommended we read Perrin...
Oct 29, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 29. Who Does It Follow Next? OctPoWriMo Day 29. Other-worldly MonstersIf you read a lot of older poetry, you may notice that many poems didn’t have titles, only numbers, or were the same as the first or last line. These days, ...
Oct 29, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌱 the royal hotel - a movie review Note: this review contains spoilers.
Oct 28, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 28. The One with Iron Fingernails OctPoWriMo Day 28. The Monsters We MakeWe’re getting close to the end of this wonderful journey. We’ve explored sensory detail, gone deeper connecting sensory detail with personal thought and memor...
Oct 28, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 the mummy - a movie review Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.
Oct 27, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria OctPoWriMo Day 27. Two Questions Before the Clock Strikes OctPoWriMo Day 27. Too Big To FailOne thing I love about poetry is the way poems can manipulate time. A poem can represent the real time it takes to read it, or an entire lifetime. It can encapsula...
Oct 27, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 Sammy Keyes - a book review Sammy Keyes is a middle grade mystery series centering a young girl living illegally with her grandmother. This review does not contain spoilers. What Works the choice of characters feels realistic...
Oct 25, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLI 〜 Mahiru, Allen, and George Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 excavations - a book review Note: this review contains spoilers What I Loved Skillfully crafted three-dimensional characters which enables the book to be about more than the plot. complicated nature of motherhood, the trauma ...
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 it’s hard to savor the end when you don’t know it’s coming You gotta savor the ending of a good book. When you know it’s the last page or paragraph you can slow down and really feel what the characters are feeling. With audiobooks and ebooks, though, it’s ...
Oct 21, 2025 from Improve Something Today ‘Undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.
Oct 19, 2025 from BEEW Proofs of Wonder On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality splits in two. Awe, terror, love, relief, all of it flooding in at once. The ro...
Oct 13, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 poor things - a movie review Note that the following review contains spoilers.
