Thursday, January 12, 2012

WRITER'S PROMPT: The Time Is Now, Week 2 VIA @poetswritersinc

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 The Time Is Now          January 12, 2012  

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Welcome to week two of The Time Is Now, our e-newsletter of prompts and exercises to keep you writing all year long.

We've upgraded our Best Books for Writers feature online, with links to the most popular book-sharing sites. And be sure to visit Writers Recommend, where we ask authors to share books, art, music, writing prompts, films--anything and everything--that has inspired them in their writing. 

POETRY PROMPT

Attend a poetry reading, or listen to a poem from the Academy of American Poets' audio archive or from the Poetry Foundation's audio files. Write a response to the poem you've heard without looking at the poem on the page. 

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION PROMPT

This week's creative nonfiction prompt comes from Vijay Seshadri, director of the nonfiction program at Sarah Lawrence College and author, most recently, of The Disappearances (Harper Collins, 2007). 

Take an episode from a piece you've already written--the more personal the better--and rewrite it as a third-person news story, faithfully following the inverted-pyramid and who-what-when-where-why structure of normative journalism.

 

FICTION PROMPT

Choose a story that you've finished or a story by another author and use the last line of it to begin a new story, using the same characters and/or introducing new ones.  

 

THE BEST BOOKS FOR WRITERS

Each week we recommend a book--a newly published title or an invaluable classic--that will help you on your writing journey. This week's pick:
 

 
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Scribner, 2010) by Stephen King
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