Tag: writing
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Daily Prompt #27
Sunday Verse! Another writing prompt to exercise your poetry pen. For today’s prompt, we will draw inspiration from the weather. It’s been a bit of a strange winter here in Chicago. Can’t seem to decide if it wants to be cold or not. What’s Your Season? Think of your favorite season. Now your least favorite.…
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Daily Prompt #26
Welcome back to Saturday Workshop! Remember our Workshop Best Practices, and please participate and have fun! For this week, we’ll go back to poetry for our workshop. We will also turn again to the pages of Imaginative Writing. Try This 3.14 “An ode is a serious, meditative lyric poem that treats a noble subject in…
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Daily Prompt #25
Flash Friday! Today’s prompt is inspired by Bruce Holland Rogers’ story “Dinosaur.” Life In 750 words or less, move through the whole life of a character. This can be fiction, yourself, or someone you know. Think of it as a sort of highlights reel. What can you convey about this person and their life in…
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Thoughts About “Hologram”
In the poem “Hologram,” Lauren Westerfield makes use of a variety of different forms of repetition. Anaphora, in particular, is one form of repetition she utilizes consistently. Each section of this four section poem has its own anaphora, with the third section having two (though it can perhaps be argued that the second is not,…
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Daily Prompt #24
For our Thursday Thoughts today, let’s continue the trend from Saturday and consider parents and guardians. For Saturday Workshop, we all made lists about our parents and/or guardians, but only wrote about one. For today, write about the other one! (More) Parents On Saturday you wrote lists of unique traits of your parents and/or guardians,…
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Daily Prompt #23
For this Wacky Wednesday, the name of the game is horror! Horror can also be many other things, fantasy, sci-fi, fiction. I don’t care which one you pick today, as long as it’s scary! I’ve been re-reading Stephen King’s On Writing, so horror is on the brain. Human Monsters There is nothing scarier than a…
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Recommended Reading
One of my favorite things to do is recommend reading. Books, journals, authors, individual pieces. If a friend asks me for a recommendation, they will often receive a list. So here’s my list for you! I’ve separated my list into five sections, and limited myself to only a few of each, else I’d go on…
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Daily Prompt #21
Get your imagination on! It’s another fantastic Monday! Have I convinced you to like Mondays yet? For our fiction prompt this week, I want you to write a triptych. “A painted or carved triptych typically has three hinged panels, and the two outer panels can be folded in towards the central one. A literary or…
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Daily Prompt #20
It’s time again for some Sunday Verse! Are you feeling poetic? For today’s prompt, we’re going to do something called a Golden Shovel poem. This set of poetic rules was invented by the poet Terrence Hayes, and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks. The original golden shovel is The Golden Shovel, after We Real Cool. The Rules…
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