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Prompt–Sunday, January 1
Create a list of New Year’s Resolutions for one of your characters. I’ll do one for my April Novel’s protagonist Charlotte. Research about being a first time mother Prepare the baby’s room (crib, blankets, toys, clothing, etc.) Finish the painting for the baby’s room Find a job Do something fun
Using Prompts to Prompt You in the Writing Direction
At Winter Wheat (November 19) I gave a presentation on prompts. What is a writing prompt? It is an exercise used to move the writer beyond the fear of a blank page and get something on the page. But how does the writer come up with an idea to write about? This quote from Stephen …
Prompt–Sunday, December 18
For today’s prompt, pick something from the following poem to imitate. It could be the stanza structure, the theme, rhyme scheme, meter, take your pick. http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/roethke.papa.html I chose the theme of a parent and child interacting. Summer is a time to imagine castles of grass. The kingdom begins the size of our backyard, but as you …
Prompt–Sunday, December 4
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZsFJb_gQQ Then write a scene where one character says sorry to another character, or write a poem where you use anaphora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(rhetoric) with “I am sorry.” Here’s mine. I am sorry that I don’t play the violin anymore. It’s hard to pull out music you once enjoyed when we were together. I am …
Prompt–Sunday, November 27
Set a timer for five minutes. Start a scene that takes place in a diner between two old friends who are no longer friends. Go. Then read mine below. I never expected to see Jimmy again. We broke up back in high school and it hasn’t been long enough. At least his hair was still red …
My Winter Wheat Session on Prompts
I called my session: Using Prompts to Prompt You in the Writing Direction. My session was from 9-10:15 a.m. Saturday, November 18. I opened my presentation with a quote from Stephen King’s “On Writing:” “…two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.” (25) So for prompts, you can give one …
Winter Wheat
I had a great weekend at the Mid-American Review Winter Wheat Festival of Writing. Yesterday I gave my session on prompts, which I will share in a post later this week. There were a lot of great sessions! Also fodder to discuss. The readers Kyle Minor, Ann Townsend and Seth Fried were great. Prairie Margins …
Prompt–Sunday, November 20
Write an ode to a candy wrapper. If only your orange skin were enough to hold me back from throwing you away. Thank you for protecting sweet milk chocolate and peanut butter. It’s a gift I will never forget until your brother or sister comes bearing another.
Prompt–Monday, November 7
Write a lipogram. For more details on oulipo, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo. And lipograms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram. For this lipogram, choose a letter to not use. I will not use “e.” For this rain to fall without a hitch a hiccup or a sigh, I will not say how lilies can see its path.
