Freebie Mondays: Charity Stream Sonnets! Freebie Mondays: Charity Stream Sonnets! By Megan Cutler | March 11, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment Back in August of 2023, amidst a hot, dry and largely rainless summer, a forest fire jumped the lake near where we live and ignited frightfully close to our house. I’ve detailed our experience with the fire in a pair of previous posts. Though thankfully, the flames never reached our neighborhood, and we were never … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: Charity Stream Haikus and Limericks! Freebie Mondays: Charity Stream Haikus and Limericks! By Megan Cutler | February 26, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment Back in August of 2023, amidst a hot, dry and largely rainless summer, a forest fire jumped the lake near where we live and ignited frightfully close to our house. I’ve detailed our experience with the fire in a pair of previous posts. Though thankfully, the flames never reached our neighborhood, and we were never … Read More Read More
Top 7 Prompts of the Fifth Year Top 7 Prompts of the Fifth Year By Megan Cutler | December 11, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment On July 31st 2015, I posted my first writing prompt. It kicked off a weekly tradition of writing for fun and practice. My schedule no longer accommodates weekly prompts, so it takes awhile to hit the ‘year’ mark (when I’ve written 52 new prompts). The
Freebie Mondays: Poetry Hour Part 2 Freebie Mondays: Poetry Hour Part 2 By Megan Cutler | September 25, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment Last week, I mentioned a poetry challenge I set my friend Joe (aka Jchillyy on twitch). He created a wheel of mayhem for one of his streams, and I suggested several silly writing related tasks to be part of it. My challenges were: *Write a romantic haiku *Write a humorous limerick *Write a sonnet dedicated … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: Poetry Hour Freebie Mondays: Poetry Hour By Megan Cutler | September 4, 2023 | Comments 1 comment My good friend Joe, who goes by Jchillyy on twitch recently created a wheel of mayhem for one of his streams. He asked the community to contribute fun ideas for random, crazy antics he could get up to should the wheel land on them. Since he is a fellow writer, I thought it might be … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: Poems for Friends Freebie Mondays: Poems for Friends By Megan Cutler | June 21, 2021 | Comments 0 Comment During the summer of 2020, after the pandemic sent us all into deep lockdown, I finally convinced one of my best friends to start streaming on Twitch. She needed a way to interact with other people, and she’s always been fond of the stage. Twitch gave her a place where she could be herself, try … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: Selected Poems Round 2 Freebie Mondays: Selected Poems Round 2 By Megan Cutler | November 18, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment When I decided to go back through my poetry folder, I learned a lot of things about myself. First, I had forgotten how moody I was as a teenager. Maybe all teenagers are moody. Maybe that’s normal. But there are a lot of things I wrote back then that still make me cringe. The second … Read More Read More
Freebie Fridays: Selected Poems from the Past Freebie Fridays: Selected Poems from the Past By Megan Cutler | August 19, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment A few weeks ago, I posted Distant Whispers – a song I wrote for a novel when my characters decided it was going to be important. I will admit, I hoped writing that song would rekindle an old love of poetry. I used to doodle a few lines of poetry almost every day, just whenever … Read More Read More
Freebie Fridays: Distant Whispers Freebie Fridays: Distant Whispers By Megan Cutler | June 14, 2019 | Comments 1 comment While I was working on the final trilogy in the Celestial Serenade (Soul of the Sun), my characters pulled a fast one on me. They attended a heavy metal opera – because that should be a real thing, you guys. And afterward, they talked with the actors about the show. One song became particularly important … Read More Read More