This has been a poetry-infused week for me. I’m hoping to continue that momentum this weekend and plan on writing and revising until I have at least five solid final drafts of poems. So I thought I’d invite you to do the same.
Novel Novice will have a new creative writing prompt for you, starting with the one below, and continuing through Sunday. (Maybe even more than three prompts, if I’m feeling especially inspired!)
Let yourself go. Write away. Use your computer. Use pen and paper. Use crayon and construction paper. Use tracing paper and colored pencils. Mix up your mediums and your writing locations. Don’t think about what others may say about what you’re writing – write for yourself. Worry about your audience later.
Creative Writing Weekend – Prompt #1
Take an already written work and insert at random, or very deliberately, a paragraph or section from another text. It could be a health textbook, an Anthropologie catalog, the sports section of today’s newspaper, an email from your best friend (or worst enemy). After you’ve mingled the new language into your poem, study the possibilities for rewriting.
A little extra inspiration from Robert Frost himself:
I never write except with a writing board. I’ve never had a table in my life. And I use all sorts of things. Write on the sole of my shoe.
Have at it, you talented writers!
Novel Novice 