[stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Awhile back I actually found some web-sites that have (until recently)
all the sets of conjoined twins, quadruplets, quintuplets and
sextuplets, with their names and everything. So in my stories folder,
in addition to my actual writing, I started copying the format for the
real multiples on the site and made up all of my own sets. I vary the
names: sometimes they are more traditional, sometimes they rhyme or
all start with the same letter and sometimes their names willl leave a
person wondering "OMG how can he/she live with this one?" LOL
To get the names I have used baby name books, names I've heard, I've
looked at names from other countries and sometimes I just create a
name in my head!
Yes I know it won't get published or anything but it is still a ton of
fun to make them.
Funny thing is I once created a set of sextuplets with the last name
Foibles, because I thought it sounded silly and fun, only to learn
months later that that word means "weaknesses." Tough! There are much
worse last names to live with!
Vejas

On 1/22/15, Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 22, 2015, at 16:18, Vejas Vasiliauskas
>> <alpineimagination at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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