[stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

In our creative writing lunch club we once were given a prompt of 
writing for 5 minutes nonstop, then sharing it with someone and 
deleting whole lines from x...  or you could do your own.  I just 
couldn't do it.  What I had written was a vent about someone I 
didn't like and I just couldn't imagine changing the meaning.
By the way Barbara, are you still as much of a fan of multiples 
as you used to be? I still am! I still incorporate them in my 
stories, but a bit more sparingly than I used to.  I know you 
said you really don't like writing stories much but the two that 
you submitted to the list, "Babies Galore" and "Zephyr's Story" 
have been very good.
Vejas


----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Hammel via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:38:13 -0600
Subject: [stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions 
fiasco

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
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