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This week’s prompt: re-write actions or views of a person from the bible, torah, koran… Pick a figure from your guiding book and write a poem about that ‘person’, casting the person’s character or actions or opinions in a different light. A great example is Ansel Elkins’ Autobiography of Eve. Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt: Forbidden Fruit What is the forbidden fruit in your life? Where has someone else told you ‘you can’t have that’, but you want to, maybe desperately. Is it something life changing or something rather small? You could write an ode to your forbidden fruit. Or you could address the person who is … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Wanderlust! Write for 15 minutes anything and everything that comes to your mind when you hear the word Wanderlust. It could just be words or it could be entire stories and memories. It could be wishes to travel, locations you have picked. It could be imaginary travel through reading books and making … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write about eating out alone. Which restaurant are you at, Ruth’s Chris, Applebee’s, Joey’s BBQ hole in the wall place…? How do you feel? How do you behave – do you look around, maybe engage in a conversation with the table next to you, or do you read a book or your … Continue reading
This week’s prompt is a visual prompt: Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt: Write a 10-word poem on an encounter you had this past week with another person. If you feel like it, write multiple poems on different people you met which could then form a mosaic poem of encounters. Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt is an exercise: write a new poem or rewrite an existing poem for three different audiences, i.e. with one specific type of person in mind 1) an IT professional or accountant, 2) an English professor/teacher and 3) a construction worker. If you would like a prompt, then write a poem about an exchange … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: ‘Far & Near’ Perform a literary zoom on a scene, first describing the scene from some distance and then zooming in and describing details you can only detect when you are close up (or visa versa: first close up and then zoom out). This could be a nature scene (the other side of … Continue reading
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