Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
So this prompt was a suggestion by a club member and it got a lot of love. It was also a fun bit of first person point of view writing. The prompt was to write from the point of view of the demon or ghost doing the haunting or possession. Here were some of the
I will admit, when I first took over the Writing Group, I wasn’t sure how the poetry forms were going to go over but the group members really seemed to like them. This poem form has lots of specifics. From Poets.org: The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by
This was a fun prompt, yes, it was to make a spoof of a recipe blog posts but instead of telling about a fantastic recipe, we wrote about how it went wrong. This could be a real story, a magic, fantastical fiction. Whatever made us happy. Mine as magic. Also, if you are curious for
The prompt this week was to write a fable. The basics of a fable are that they have a moral and the characters are typically animals. This was surprisingly difficult. I’m not sure mine is a good fable but it follows the basic rules. Have you read a fable since you were a kid? Have
This last week’s prompt was a great way to start National Poetry month: the Ode. A poem of praise. There are a variety of different types of odes but being that we didn’t have a lot of time, I chose the contemporary or irregular ode. Do you have a favorite type of ode? What would
Hello all, the prompt for this week was pick a song and write about the emotions that it evokes. Some of the resulting pieces were sweet, some were relaxing, and there was a bit of trauma. Art is not always bright and happy, sometimes it’s dark and painful, sometimes it is not beautiful but it
This last prompt was to write a ballad. Ballads are a bit of folk poetry that possibly came from oral story telling traditions. On that note, one of our club members wrote a short ballad, memorized it, deleted it, and then recited it allowed. It was impressive. At its most basic a ballad is a
The prompt for this week was birds in any context. Maybe something about a specific bird, maybe birds aren’t real, maybe about bird Pokemon. Keltin wrote about blue jays, one group member wrote about swans and how they are represented in myth and media. Another group member wrote a short little horror piece about crows.
This was the prompt for my first official week as club leader. It was supposed to be the week of the Haikus but the weather made us cancel. This prompt was to write a story from the point of view of an NPC from a book, movie, or game; pretty much any piece of media.
The first week that I was supposed to lead Writing Club the Texas weather decided to ensured that it wasn’t safe to drive. So to still get those creative juices flowing we all sent each other Haiku poems while staying safe at home. Haiku: unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5,
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