Part 1: Write about your blind date with God.
Part 2: Write about sharing an apartment with God.
Part 3: Write about your break-up with God.
January 3, 2011
Part 1: Write about your blind date with God.
Part 2: Write about sharing an apartment with God.
Part 3: Write about your break-up with God.
January 3, 2011
Write a eulogy for a poet who is still, currently, breathing. It can be a true piece of admiration, a fictional skewering (or, for that matter, a true skewering), or something entirely satirical.
We did this at The Cantab five or six years ago, and Eric Darby wrote a rather heady piece concerning Prabakar …
January 3, 2011
Find a poem that you feel strongly about, either positively or negatively. Double space the poem, and write line
that connect the end of one line to the beginning of the next. (For example: “So much depends/upon/a red wheelbarrow,” becomes “So much depends/on the length of rope coiled/upon/the pile of manure in/a red wheelbarrow”), …
January 3, 2011
Write the same sentiment thirteen different ways: “It was cold this morning,” “I woke up to a snowman leaning over my bed,” “This morning my thermostat registered Republican,” etc.
January 3, 2011
Think of the person who means the most to you in the entire world: not necessarily romantically, but someone you love with all your heart. Now, dress them for their funeral.
January 3, 2011
Write a family history for your future spawn, but make it historically inaccurate and filled with hyperbole.
January 3, 2011
Poetically turn down an invitation from someone.
January 3, 2011
Write a love letter to a fictional figure from literature (Tom Sawyer, Hester Prynne, The Grinch, etc.).
January 3, 2011
Write a love letter from a character from a movie, book, TV show, comic, etc. to a character from another media source. You may not write a love note back and forth between two media with the same foundation (i.e. Frodo from the Fellowship of The Ring movie to Sam from The Fellowship Of The …
January 3, 2011
Write about the first letter, word, sentence, or story ever written down.
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