Hey everyone! Here is the discussion topic for the Random Writing Challenge this week. Questions, comments, brainstorming, discussion, and other randomalia about the random topic go here ( Read more... )

What do you think of this week's Poetry-Random mash-up ( Read more... )

What do you think of this week's poetry exercise? Do you have any particular homophone sets that you're itching to use as the inspiration for a poem?

If you're in need of some input in that direction, here are some lists of homophones:
- 441 homophones
- A very long homophone list
- Another very long homophone list (this one excludes words that ( Read more... )

The fun thing about holidays is that they can be really, really weird. You can be celebrating a failed attempt to blow up the government or other nationally significant event, something seasonal, religious, or just plain silly. And the traditions that go into a holiday are often really bizarre and can seem unrelated without considering the holiday ( Read more... )

What do you think of this week's poetry challenge?

Here are a few more resources on the tanka form of poetry:

• Wikipedia on tanka
  
• A quick start guide to writing tanka
  
• The American Tanka Journal - there are lots of back issues available online, so many fine examples of poems to read!
  
• An article on tanka, which includes a comparison between tanka ( Read more... )

What do you think of this week's random writing challenge prompt? Do you have any ideas for specific people seeking advice? I'm looking forward to this one - I haven't decided yet if I'm going to inflict bizarre things on some poor, normal advice columnist, or just write a straight-up weird advice column, but of course it will be odd. I hope ( Read more... )

Here's your discussion thread for jem0000000''s Writing Challenge, Ninja Reindeer and Pirate Snowmen ( Read more... )