[stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Funny you should ask, Vejas. Another one of the prompts was to write a poem with the same meter and rhyme scheme as "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" and mine is called "Drive to Slumberland" in which the speaker has resorted to taking her triplets of a car ride to get them to sleep.

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> On Jan 22, 2015, at 16:18, Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> Subject: [stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco
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> 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
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