January 3
Check back on Thursday, January 6, for our first fiction writing prompt. We'll post a new fiction prompt or exercise every Thursday to keep you writing all year long!
January 3
Choose a favorite poem written by somebody else, type a copy of it, delete every other line from the poem, and write your own lines to replace those you’ve deleted. Next, delete the remaining lines from the old poem so that only your lines remain. Read what you have, and revise it, adding new lines to fill in the gaps.
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Happy New Year Poem
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New Tree-Free Submission Services
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I Have Been Thinking About Snow
Ander Monson's video interpretation of one of the essays in his 2007 collection, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf Press). "Best watched in the dark, lights off, January in Michigan, real cold," Monson writes on his YouTube channel.
A Musing Trailer
This short film, written and directed by David Spies and produced by Phil Seneker, is about a writer who is pressured by his literary agent to find his muse.
"The God of Our Farm Had Blades"
This poem by Todd Boss, read by the author, animated by Tom Jacobsen, with music by Jesse Marks, was produced by Motionpoems.
A Christmas Carol in New York City, Short List for International Prize in Arabic Fiction, and More
Six finalists are announced for the fifty-thousand-dollar International Prize for Arabic Fiction; Publishers Weekly launches a quarterly listing of self-published books; Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" turns 150 years old; authors recite Dickens's A Christmas Carol in New York City; and other news.
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