New Prompt 11/4  - The Write like Bob Challenge

I am an avid fan of our own Bob Church, and so today's challenge is to emulate his style. In order to understand his writing, here is an excellent article he wrote himself. Be sure to read the last two paragraphs. Then come back prepared to push the real world to its limits.

The assignment is to take a character and write a story, or if poetry is your forte, then a poem, and help the reader understand that character's dreams, or if you will, nightmares. Bring them to the fore of life, making us speak about the unspeakable and see the heretofore unseen...all this without writing a horror story...but by keeping it close to reality but dancing on the edge of eccentricity. If you've read Bob's writing, you know what I mean. Take your time; this isn't the kind of work you should grind out like meatballs.

Choose one of these three characters to write your story/poem on:

1. A librarian.

2. A grandfather on an outing with his grandson.

3. A politician giving a speech.

Good luck and good creativity!

For today's prompt, we have another Words and Picture challenge. A poem, story, or essay, your choice for the following picture:

For today's prompt, take the following painting and tell a story, incorporating the picture into a Halloween theme.

Time for a new prompt. For this one, write a poem or a story where the main subject is a scarecrow with a pumpkin head. You can make him fun, scary, whatever you please.  Have fun!

Be sure and check  back here and in the forum, too, to see where others have also responded.

Luncheon by Renoir

Looks like a raucous bunch, doesn't it? One of my favorite paintings. Today's prompt is a story. Choose one or more of the following characters from the painting and write a story about him/her within the context of the luncheon, fore, aft, and during.

1.  The man with a top hat in the back. 
and/or

I love couplets. Today's prompt: a Split Couplet

Definition and example from:
http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/couplet.html

Split Couplet- the first line in iambic pentameter, the second in iambic dimeter. From Richard Steere's "On a Sea-Storm Nigh the Coast"

The weighty seas are rowled from the deeps
In mighty heaps,
And from the rocks' foundations do arise
To kiss the skies.


Try several quatrains, related or unrelated, your choice. Topic your choice, as well.

Today's prompt:

Write a poem about a ghost.

P.S. I probably won't get to mine til tomorrow......

(new prompt idea from paisley):

yet another poetic inspiration from one of my prompted writing groups... it is called a
Pleiades,, and here  is the example i saw of it today:

http://poefiti.blogspot.com/2007/10/calligraphy.html

This form requires:
A one-word title.
Seven lines of six syllables.
The title and all seven lines must begin with the same letter.

I've decided to double-post the prompts for our Musecrafters Writing Workshop to give them more visibility. If you'd like to peruse all the entries or refer to our poetry forms library, you can  find them in the Forum.  On to the prompt:

Halloween is coming, so let's do some holiday prompts. For this one, make your a topic a vampire. (Sorry, I like vampires--Thank you, Anne Rice!)  It can be a poem, essay, or short story.

New Prompts in the Forum!  Try your hand participating in a chain story or tackle a Pi poem.

Go here.

While you're there, click to be notified of new posts.

Part of being a writer is to learn to observe and listen. This is an exercise in listening. Write about another person's voice. Listen in real life to another person speak and describe the sound in your best language. You may even write a poem or short fiction piece using the description. The best writing is that which is sparked with reality.

 

The truth of this concept hit home with me one time when a blind girl told me my voice was a low rumble with a hiss at the end. Wow!

Also, over at the forum, I put up two polls. I'd appreciate everybody answering the polls. They are questions about prompts. I'd like your input.

Do you have an idea for a challenge/prompt? I'll bet you do.  I've set up a special place to post and share your ideas. So do it and lets have some fun! Here's where to post your idea. Click here.  

New Writing Prompt

Paradise Island or Anything But...

 

Imagine you are stranded on an island in the Pacific. Who would you like to be stranded with? Write a poem, essay, or short story about it.