tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39177292011-04-22T01:15:01.082-04:00Creative writing prompts for poets and writers.Celianoreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917729.post-1115689893286678822005-05-09T21:51:00.000-04:002005-05-09T21:53:43.250-04:00

The Goddess SaysWhat is a/The Goddess, to you?What is the Goddess trying to tell you?"I stabbed myself with a fork today. It was the Goddess's way of telling me to sit the fuck down with a gin and tonic."--Kethrai

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Random Prompts Where is the poetry in your day? In the past hour? In your life? What must you have wished for in your last life to get this one? What do you truly want? If my name was a verb... Fear I say yes to.... It's easy to forget about poetry. Truth Home Mix Tapes Love What's Your Story? What are you loyal to? This is the season of... Manifesto This is Your Life What's on

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I Used to BelieveWrite down all the weird beliefs you had as a kid.

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A Sound Write a piece which utilizes a sound. (For the purposes of this exercise, choose just one. You can branch out later.) Ideas: a bell, a clap, a laugh. Use the sound as punctuation, or as a marker between the poem's sections, or as a refrain. Perform this piece in an echoey place (a church, a grain elevator, a bathtub). Perform it in a close place (under covers, in a car). Perform it

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This week I discovered a site called Travel Blog. (http://www.travelblog.org/) I've been travelling recently, and while it was fun to check other people's impressions of places I'd been, it was also just as much fun to read about places I'd been to longer ago, like Petra. And to read about the places I'd like to go. Write one of your own, of a memory. Consider making a travel journal on an

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City Stories Check out City Stories. Write a piece in which your city (or a city you know intimately) is a character, a presence, a part of the plot, the meaning.

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Gorelets: computer-based "fridge magnet" style compsing at your mouseclick, with gothic vocabulary. Here's my newest one: memory always writing inside naked heart Make your own!

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Independence Day Write about independence. Or fireworks. Or a memory of this holiday.

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Sign up for a daily haiku, delivered to your email or phone. Submit some of your own haiku to same.

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INSTIGATION: TWISTED PROMPTS FOR SICKO WRITERS + Write the final scene in a book about Armageddon. + In painstakingly close detail, appealing to all five senses, describe a rotting human head. When you reach the end, reveal the context for its appearance -- one which sends the reader right back to the beginning. + What is the filthiest place you avoid in your day-to-day life? A nasty corner of

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+ Begin a piece by describing an object that a character refuses to throw away. + You've been dead for ten years. If you somehow were able to return, what would you immediately do upon resurrection? Begin with personal exploration in first person -- be honest and earnest. Once you run out of juice, start fictionalizing. You can change names to protect the innocent afterward. + Write about

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I miss me, too. Read Stuart Dischell's poem, "Days of Me," and write your own version. Are you generous to waitstaff, do you sip rain from roses, are you home before the streetlights go on? Tell me.

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Adjective & Noun Meet in the Middle of Town Take a piece of paper, fold it lengthwise, and on the left side write a list of adjectives. On the right, without thinking too much about it (trade papers if you are doing writing practice with others), write a list of nouns. Wake up to weird language.

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Everybody, go to www.poetsagainstthewar.org and submit a poem.

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Sonnet Forms The sonnet was originally an Italian form, its name deriving from the Italian sonnetto, meaning “little song.” A sonnet consists of 14 lines, and has a rhyme scheme. There are three different rhyme schemes for three different types of sonnets: Petrarchan: The fourteen lines are divided into an octet (eight-line stanza) and sestet (six-line stanza) rhymed a-b-ba-a-b-b-a

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Secret Think of a secret you have. Now, don't tell the secret. Tell me what's around the secret: the age you are, where are you, what are you wearing, what season is it, what does it taste like, smell like, how does it feel? What are metaphors for the secret?

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Haiku Write a haiku. Here are the guidelines: 1. Syllable counts should be adhered to if possible: first line - 5 syllables second line - 7 syllables third line - 5 syllables. 2. Observations on nature are most common. 3. Time is also important: time of day, time of year, season, time of life. More on haiku: Aha Poetry Haiku How-to Masters and examples from Toyomasu More on

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Self-Portrait Describe yourself, in third person. Do this in three stages: 1. Describe yousrelf in ten words or less. 2. Describe yourself in 45 words or less. 3. Describe yourself at length, and go as long as you want. Then try to keep going. Then keep doing it. Update it.

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