Prompts & Writing Games

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Poems for Dogs 8 comments

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games on April 9, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on April 8, 2015)

In 1990 François Caradec invented “poems for dogs.” The poets hides a dog’s name phonetically in each verse: the dog responds to the name but, […]

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Poetry Prompt: Epigrams

This entry was posted in April Poetry Month Prompts & Writing Games and tagged Alexander Pope couplet epigram poetry satire on April 1, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on October 27, 2015)

Let’s launch Poetry Month with one of my all-time favourite poems, a famous epigram by Alexander Pope: Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog […]

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Cole Swensen on Getting Unstuck

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games Writing and tagged Cole Swensen getting unstuck translation on March 23, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 23, 2015)

Cole Swensen shares a great tip for getting unstuck using auto-translation. Whether you speak a second language or not, you can play with machine translators […]

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Idea Factory Writing Prompt #11 8 comments

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged hoax writing prompt on March 20, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 20, 2015)

This week’s Idea Factory writing prompt takes its inspiration from one of the great literary hoaxes of all time: the infamous 1969 novel Naked Came […]

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Idea Factory Writing Prompt #9 3 comments

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged Mark Walker on February 26, 2015 by Mark Walker

Today’s Idea Factory Writing Prompt is a guest post by Mark Walker about sequels, rewrites & reimaginationings. How many times have you sat through a […]

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The Idiograph Of The Story

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games Writing and tagged Julie Taymor visual writing writing exercise on February 25, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 26, 2015)

“The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the idiograph of the story. Which is; the […]

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Idea Factory Writing Prompt #8 1 comment

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on February 22, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 22, 2015)

This week’s Idea Factory Writing Prompt is inspired by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo: “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world […]

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What Color Is Your Sky? 3 comments

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on February 20, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on March 20, 2015)

When you look at the world around you, do you see what’s there, or do you see what you’ve been taught to see? Well, it […]

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Idea Factory Writing Prompt #8 6 comments

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on February 13, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 17, 2015)

Today’s Idea Factory Writing prompt taps into something we all have in abundance. In the opening of Violette, the biopic of writer Violette LeDuc written […]

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