May Joseph Cricket Sounding Darkness March 5, 2016 An abandoned house with red tiled roof in decay rises across the small hill. It appears so much smaller, innocuous, from how I remember it. It is my mother’s childhood home in Quilt, Kerala. Once a sprawling home with a lush courtyard and the sounds of a large family, the crumbling ruin is now desolate, silent. Its melancholic aura betrays deep neglect. My mother stands with me outside the padlocked gates and murmurs in sadness that it is now filled with snakes, this place of her childhood, that she so…
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Review by Carole Mertz – Diane Lockward, author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop, has had poems featured in Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is endorsed by Lee Upton, poet and professor of English at Lafayette College and by K.S. Byer, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, among others. In her fourth poetry collection, The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement, Lockward promises terror transformed into moments of beauty. I find that beauty rendered in various ways. First by the layout of the poems on the page. (“In My Bones” bears the shape of…
1. Take the first line of your Facebook news feed as the first line of your story. 2. Take a piece you’ve written and re-write it from a different point of view or perspective–perhaps a different character’s take on the same action, or just first person instead of third or present tense instead of past. 3. Try an acrostic! Write a phrase vertically on your paper (for example, Year of the Monkey). Use the letters of the phrase as the first letters for each line of your story. 4. Write a story about an animal, real or imaginary.
Janet Hamill – Synesthesia Surrealist poet and fiction writer Janet Hamill has adapted her poetry prompt for us. SYNAESTHESIA: THE SENSES AND THE ART OF IMAGERY Synesthesia – From the Greek, “perceive together.” The intermingling of sensations; sensing for example, of certain sounds through colors or ordors. Blending of sensations To write the poem/ prose poem/flash fiction, choose from the sheet a symbol/subject from section A, a verb from section B, and a sense from section C. In your poem you may use more than one item from each section. (Flash prompt is based on this poetry prompt–) Write…
Cynthia Kraman Cynthia Kraman, author of The Touch, Club 82 and others, suggested we try an “Exquisite Corpse,” or group story. The first line of the story is, “It’s 3 AM.” Add your line, then ask friends for subsequent lines. Or write your own story with that first line.
Tsaurah Litzky 1. Make an abstraction come to life by rendering it in specific details.i.e. for Old Age “Jenny was frightened that it was getting harder and harder for her to make it across the street before the light started flashing RED.You can use abstractions like poverty, joy, vanity, wealth, greed etc. etc. . 2. Take a line from a favorite poem and use it as an epigram or title before a flash fiction or a poem. I used this line, “There are hiding places in my room.” from a poem by Jack Michilene as a title for a poem.…
1. Since February is the month for love, write a story about a crush, requited or un-. Title your story with a word or phrase you’d find on a traffic sign. 2. Double soy grande caramel macchiato, cup of Joe, red red wine or good old H2O? Write a story in which a beverage is involved in the plot.
Jean Hanff Korelitz If you spend years writing a novel and every publisher in the world rejects it, put it away and write a better novel. Don’t self-publish. Despite the programs and apps and bells and whistles that appear to make self-publishing almost indistinguishable from traditional publishing, it’s not the same and it never will be. I’m not suggesting it’s easy to accept defeat, let alone to start over with a different (better) novel. Trust me, I know exactly how hard it is. But how glad am I that my first two failed and epically rejected novels…
Write a story that is based on a poem that you like. Do not use more than 5 words from the poem (other than common ones).