Another Writing and Revising

I found myself dipping back into the macabre when writing another blurb in my 12 Day of Halloween Before Christmas series, which isn’t hard to do when dealing with the macabre. Especially in today’s world. I’ll share where I landed and how I arrived at it.

I start with a picture I’ve taken of some Halloween decorations and then use that as a jumping off point.

Final blurb: The glowing pumpkin child comes at every ugly cry. The glowing pumpkin child arrives any time someone gets something they didn’t ask for, like a pepsi instead of a coke. The glowing pumpkin child enters, often from stage right, to shine at every window that needs a warmer light.

This felt like it needed more and so there was more!

The glowing pumpkin child comes at every ugly cry. The glowing pumpkin child arrives any time someone gets something they didn’t ask for, like a pepsi instead of a coke. The glowing pumpkin child enters, often from stage right, to shine at every window that needs a warmer light, opening for the sweet, chilling wind of loss that couldn’t escape without a good thought in mind such as the glowing pumpkin child’s light warming brightly through the sleepless nights, the unbearable kindness of others as you drown politely, the wish to keep nothing of your bodily delights….