I've been meaning to mention if someone wants their piece to be critiqued--meaning have the others advise what could be better or different about it, etc., please say so when you post your link. I know everyone isn't comfortable being critiqued, but some do depend on it. Just wanted to make sure the workshop is useful for everyone....
Also, if you have a challenge idea, please let me know. JO
Words and Pictures!
Interpret one of the paintings below, your choice, with verse, story, or essay. Any length, form, or genre. Let your imagination go wild. To know more about the paintings, go here; although I would prefer you do not let the reality of the scene depicted come into your piece. Just see them as nameless people and go from there.
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Enjoy!
ESSAY CHALLENGE
This challenge is to reveal more about yourself. Your choice of two essay topics:
1. My Favorite Job
2. My Most-Admired Relative
I'm making this challenge something anybody can join in on. You don' t have to be poet or a short story writer. You just need a life! lol.
Describe the job or relative and explain why it is what it is. Let us know a little about yourself through these stories. It may be as long or short as you like, but help us understand why it is your favorite job or most-admired relative. Enjoy!
Okay, after our little foray into hemorrhoids, dental clinics, and sheep, it's time for a more intellectual challenge, a Jozzonet.
The Jozzonet is a Dutch form, developed by Joz Knoop. The Jozzonet has an odd number of lines. The middle line of the poem functions as mirror. It can be any length. Rhyme not necessary.
The Topic for this challenge: Summer Heat OR The Forgotten Road, your choice.
An example:
STORMY WEATHER
Whooshing cascades sweeping motion
in rhythm with thunderous commotion
as electric shocks the world
in a sky painted dismal gray
as electric shocks the world
in rhythm with thunderous commotion
whooshing cascades sweeping motion
Copyright 2006 JO Janoski
Drawing Words from Other Creative Outlets
Okay, now here is a challenge that should even make Bob take pause. Study the picture above, The Dining Room, by impressionistic painter, Paul Signac. Consider all the details while you search for inspiration.
Write whatever you like from this painting. It can be a poem, a story, an essay, whatever suits your fancy. Try more than one if your name is Bob. If you want to try one of the older challenges first, and try this later, that's okay. I'm a bit behind myself. There are a couple older ones I still want to do.
Good luck, everyone!
Sunday Challenge
(For whenever you can get to to it)
And it will be a challenge! Write a TV commercial script. Sell the viewer your line of either:
a. Your line of hemorrhoid relief pads, or
b. Your dental clinic, or
c. Your PBS station--make the viewer contribute. It's Pledge time.
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There that should keep Bob...errr, I mean us busy.
Don't forget to post the URL in comments!
Many thanks to Paisley for this suggestion: The Dodoitzu
The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin and is often about love or humor. It has 26 syllables made of of four lines of 7, 7, 7, 5 syllables respectively. It is unrhymed and non-metrical.
Example:
Doctor's Office
Hot, despite white-haired patients
Icicles of silver age
Inching, uncertain small steps
To see the doctor.
...Copyright 2005 JO Janoski
You can be funnier with your poem than my example. I just kind of pulled that out of my files this morning. I wrote it waiting in the doctor's office one day, and I didn't feel so jovial. As usual, post a link to your entry in the comments. Don't forget to leave the URL!
The other challenges are still open, so if you still want to do one, please do. I haven't finished with them myself yet.
A cinquain contains five lines and a total of 22 syllables.An example:
The poem is unrhymed.
This is how you form the cinquain:
Line 1: 2 syllables
Line 2: 4 syllables
Line 3: 6 syllables
Line 4: 8 syllables
Line 5: 2 syllables
Poem Copyright 2006 JO Janoski
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