Tag: Poetry

• Daily Prompt #6

  Sundays, we will dedicate to verse. Let’s awaken our inner poets! Some prompts will focus on one form of verse or another – rhymes and iambs and all that – while others it will be up to you. If there is a specific element of technique I want you to try, I’ll explain it and/or…

  nicwrites

  January 22, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Sunday Verse

  Creative writing, eulogy, ode, Poetry, ross gay, Sunday Verse, writing, writing prompt

• Thoughts About “I Minotaur”

  

  In Natalie Diaz’s essay “A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire” for LA Review of Books she writes, “Language is a physical energy, a force gifted by the creators so that we might pray to our gods, cry out for our dead, and beckon our beloveds home.” Her poem, “I, Minotaur”…

  nicwrites

  January 19, 2023

  Poetry, Thoughts About

  Creative writing, duality, i minotaur, natalie diaz, Poetry, postcolonial love poem, thoughts about poetry, writing

• Daily Prompt #1

  So it begins! As such, let’s begin with one of my favorite prompts for generating writing when stuck: “Try This 1.2” from Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing 4th edition (also known as my personal bible). Tuesdays, I am decreeing as you choose days. This prompt is non-genre specific. Write fiction! Write memoir! Write poetry! Write some…

  nicwrites

  January 17, 2023

  Daily Writing Prompts, Imaginative Writing, Tuesday Chooseday!

  creative non-fiction, Creative writing, Fiction, Imaginative Writing, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Tuesday Chooseday!, writing, writing prompt