The first of these prompts, "The Smell of Music," is simple. Listen to a song you don't know from a genre you do not (or rarely) listen to, and then write a response to it--prose, poem, or otherwise. I listened to a French "pop" song that I found on YouTube. I chose to write my … Continue reading Writing Prompts: “The Smell of Music” & “Five Easy Pieces”
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To Me, Who Thought Poetry Was Hard: It Is
The following two poems came from prompts in my creative writing class. The first prompt is extremely simple: begin or end your poem with a specific number of "things"--what those things are is up to you. The second prompt is a little more complicated (but I"m going to simplify it here): tour someone around a town; … Continue reading To Me, Who Thought Poetry Was Hard: It Is
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