Describe the worst meal you’ve ever had made from a recipe that seemed extremely promising.
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Tips from the Bar: The Porsha O Prompt (part I)
Imagine you are a genie freed by someone intent on using their wishes to cause harm. How do you negotiate with or guide the wisher? How do you use semantics to avoid giving the wisher what they desire?
Tips from the Bar: Simple But Also the Worst
Write a poem that turns around a pun (the worse, the better).
Tips from the Bar: Not Even the Mayor of Flavortown
Write a gourmet description of something that is definitely not gourmet.
Tips from the Bar: Let’s Not Go There
Describe a physical place or location that seems custom-designed to ruin your relationship with someone.
Tips from the Bar: The April Penn Prompt
Write a poem wherein you introduce an animal that would be especially bad at driving (or expand it to a skill or trade you have). Write a second part in which you find it difficult to perform the animal’s natural skills.
Tips from the Bar: Give No Answers
Look for answers that you do not find in the poem.
Tips from the Bar: Cantos, Cantos
Write, edit, or unearth a series of short poems on the same topic, but different storylines or perspectives. Arrange and rearrange to create, uncover, or hide a narrative that doesn’t exist in the individual poems.
Tips from the Bar: Put Your Hands on Your Hips
Describe a dance move to someone who’s never seen or heard of it.
Tips from the Bar: Get In, Loser
Find a fictional character in literature or entertainment that you don’t like– not necessarily a villain, just someone you don’t trust. Help them solve a problem they encounter on their journey.
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