Let's try to get some prompts going here again.

Use this picture, and this word, and write any kind of piece that incorporates them; short story, poem, skit, whatever the spirit moves you to do.

STEREOSCOPE


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Two toast poems of mine are featured on the Montreal literary blog, Grasshopper Reads. Check them out here:
http://grasshopperreads.wordpress.com/poetry/Toast is the theme to a series of poems I am writing. Over the summer, I also shot a film in which a woman eats toast for ninety minutes. It will be released in 2010 and made available for download ( Read more... )

I wrote a zine and really, I just like to give it to people. It contains a drawing, some poems from the clouds series I did, and some material from Secret Vespers, my webcomic ( Read more... )

Poems! This is National Poetry Writing Month. Let's see a poem a day from each of you. Even a limerick. Even a haiku. Even a couplet. Even a found poem.

POEMS.

I am writing thirty poems this month about my hate for toast. You can write about anything or nothing. Just write them and post them.

Let's talk about found poetry!

A few days ago, I submitted a piece to Rattle editor Tim Green's (timiathan's) Found Poetry Project. Here are the relevant links:

• to the poem I found, formatted, and submitted
• to the rules of the project

I wrote more about Tim's Found Poetry Project at Secret Vespers, my webcomic, which I am none so subtly plugging. Found ( Read more... )

I hope you have been saving your rejection slips. There is a journal that specializes in great works that have been rejected five timesThere is something about that premise I kind of love. Everyone tells you that great work is often rejected, but the editors of the Rejected Quarterly are actually proving they believe it. Maybe this will make you ( Read more... )

Love sucks. Falling in love, being in love, falling out of love, all of it ( Read more... )

city washes the snow
gray into gutters; we descend
unzipping jackets

Hi, write_away. For our Saturday prompt, let's play with music interpretation!

Have you ever seen Fantasia? In it, Disney animates stories to go with wordless, classical music. The idea of music representing stories is not new, it became common practice in the nineteenth century, but baroque and earlier composers did it, too.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is an ( Read more... )

We writers often use our own experiences to build stories. Without getting into a pointless, formless speculation about the relationship between imagination and experience, let's just say there is some combination of the two at work in good, honest writing ( Read more... )