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NaPoWriMo Day 22 - "Two Men, One Fire" Happy Wednesday, and welcome back to Day 22 of Na/GloPoWriMo 🔥🥃 Today’s prompt leans into something both playful and deceptively deep—writing a poe

Happy Wednesday, and welcome back to Day 22 of Na/GloPoWriMo 🔥🥃


Today’s prompt leans into something both playful and deceptively deep—writing a poem where the speaker is in conversation with themselves.
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THE BLACK FILE Exploring covert operations, fractured identities, and the stories governments bury An internal dispatch for thriller writers CLASSIFICATION: Restricted

Exploring covert operations, fractured identities, and the stories governments bury
An internal dispatch for thriller writers


CLASSIFICATION: Restricted
DISTRIBUTION: Cleared storytellers, narrative architects, and those willing to look beneath the
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THE BLACK FILE Exploring covert operations, fractured identities, and the stories governments bury An internal dispatch for thriller writers CLASSIFICATION: Restricted DISTRIBUTION: Cleared storytellers, narrative architects, and those willing to look beneath the...

THE BLACK FILE

Exploring covert operations, fractured identities, and the stories governments bury An internal dispatch for thriller writers CLASSIFICATION: Restricted DISTRIBUTION: Cleared storytellers, narrative architects, and those willing...

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NaPoWriMo Day 21 - What's in a name Three weeks into NaPoWriMo and today’s prompt hit close to home. I wrote about my name—Richard—and all the versions of me that came with it: Ricky, Rick, Rich, Ritchie… even one born from a broken photocopy. Each one carries a memory, a voice, a different kind of closeness.

Three weeks into NaPoWriMo, and something interesting starts to happen—the prompts stop feeling like assignments and start feeling like mirrors.
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Happy Sunday, and welcome to Day 19 of National/Global Poetry Writing Month.


Today’s challenge draws inspiration from Florilegium, where flowers are more than decorative—they are linguistic experim
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Day 10 of NaPoWriMo: What the Wind Leaves Behind explores grief through structure, repetition, and restraint—
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#AutumnVibes, #GriefWriting, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2026, #PoetryCommunity, #PoetryLovers, #WhiskeyThoughts, #WritingCommunity, #PoetsLife

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NaPoWriMo Day 7: Pebble, Pocket, Skip 🎵
A playful step back into childhood rhymes, skipping cracks and chasing light. Let laughter and rhythm guide you.
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#CreativeWriting #NaPoWriMo #PoemADay #PoeticVoice #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky, #Poetry

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There was a time when a spy story moved like a bullet—fast, loud, and certain of its aim. In films like Goldfinger, the world was simple: villains were obvious, heroes unshaken, and truth arrived neatly before the credits rolled.
That wo
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The Shape of Modern Espionage The Shape of Modern Espionage Today’s espionage thrillers no longer deal in absolutes. They trade in doubt.

The Shape of Modern Espionage

The Shape of Modern Espionage Today’s espionage thrillers no longer deal in absolutes. They trade in...

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Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
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Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White
Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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The Author
Written By
Clara PenningtonPublicist, Whispers in the Dark Press
Photo Credit
Rosalynne White

Richard White is an espionage and suspense thriller author, poet, and storyteller whose work moves between the quiet devastation of the human heart
https://authorrichardwhite.com/the-author/

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Shadow Protocol: Espionage fiction, psychological warfare, and the cost of living off the record. Explore espionage fiction, psychological warfare, and identity in thrillers. A deep dive into tradecraft, storytelling, and the cost of living off the record.

Espionage fiction isn’t about action—it’s about identity, control, and psychological warfare.

New blog: Shadow Protocol

Dive into the cost of living off the record.

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Clinical. Controlled. Dangerous.
Espionage fiction has never really been about spies.
Not in the way most people think.
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NaPoWriMo Day 4 When the Storm Turns

NaPoWriMo Day 4
When the Storm Turns
The air hangs low, the sky pulled tight,
A restless hush before the rain,
The clouds roll in, a gathering night,
And something stirs beneath the plain.

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#NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2026, #WritingCommunity, #AuthorSky #SeasonalChange, #PoetrySky, #Poetry

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Poetry or fiction? Poetry my writing follows the same themes for fiction I am an espionage/thriller author.

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Where the Wind Keeps What We Lose poetry.authorrichardwhite.com/where-the-wi...

#NaPoWriMo, #PoetLife, #PoetryCommunity, #WhiskeyAndTheAutumnWind, #WhiskeyAndWords, #nationalpoetrywritingmonth, #PoetrySky, #nationalpoetrywritingmonth2026, #poetry, #GloPoWriMo, #WritingCommunity, #NaPoWriMo2026

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NaPoWriMo Day 3 – What the Fire Really Is

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Watch out for three new poems (I wrote them today and yesterday) appearing on #thewombwellrainbow #Ekphrastic challenge for #NaPoWriMo and spring! Thanks to Paul Brooks at @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for making this happen!
Hopefully I will finish the month with a poem for every day of April :)

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Woke 5.1
My quake shook me awake
As soon as the bed stopped moving
and my app stopped blaring
I checked in on here
where we gathered
to calm our nerves

Before Twitter, I never knew
if it was an earthquake
or a nightmare
In shaky times like these
it's good to know
you're not alone.

#NaPoWriMo

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flow goes pose prose poems
kite runner and baker
eating menses with Persephone
lovers in the bramble
we paid freight
coins in fountains assuring return
we were never shadows unfed
merely bled as if a raw trembling pen
when Spring arrived
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#amwriting
#Ostara
#napowrimo
#glopowrimo

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Welcome to Whiskey and Words: The Book Tour
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All month, I’ll be sharing pieces from Whiskey and the Autumn Wind and Whiskey and the Winter Wind

#NaPoWriMo #Poetry #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #poetrycommunity #PoetrySky #poetryisnotdead #poetrylovers

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#NaPoWriMo prompt Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own tanka – or multi-tanka poem.

April 1 — Tanka

Winter loosens grip
whiskey breath fades into thaw
roads remember sun
but in the glass, shadows stay—
spring can’t melt everything

#NationalPoetryMonth, #PoetryCommunity, #PoetrySky

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This took all afternoon to write it perfectly. #Share, it's worth the fun read.

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That’s a wrap, folks 🎬✨

But wait… before we close the curtain, let me spin it back one time…

Listen... Yeahh.... That's it, give me a beat....
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March of the Writers Day 31 - Thank you, Come again. That’s a wrap, folks 🎬✨ But wait… before we close the curtain, let me spin it back one time… Listen... Yeahh.... That's it, give me a beat.... Yo— Started day...

March of the Writers Day 31 - Thank you, Come again.

That’s a wrap, folks 🎬✨ But wait… before we close the curtain, let me spin it back one time… Listen... Yeahh.... That's it, give me a beat.... Yo— Started...

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