[stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco

[Barbara Hammel]

LOL!  If you want to try the prompt that tells you to take someone else’s poem and delete every other line then fill in your own then delete the rest of the original poem and write and edit to get it to be your own poem, make sure it’s NOT a poem you like real well.  I tried it with Kipling’s “IF” and after a week of trying, I finally give up.  That poem was best said the way it was written and it’s on a favorite topic of mine to write about so, yeah, next time – if there is a next time for that – I’m going to try something less loved.
Barbara

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost