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The prompt this week was form poetry, specifically the Terza Rima. Here are the guidelines for writing one: Form poetry is difficult for me, it is difficult to work within specific rules but it is helpful also. I have to actively work to change my way of thinking. Challenges are good and it makes me
The prompt this week was to pull color swatches and write a story or poem using those colors and/or the names of the colors in the story. The colors that I pulled were named: Hunt Club (dark green), Turkish Coffee (rich brown), and Framboise (deep magenta). In other news, if you are curious as to
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
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
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
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