Literary Dynamite

Write about home.

Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.

A Ritual Poem takes a ritual (real or imagined) and brings a sense of meaning and reflection to the ritual it describes. Here are some steps to follow (a ritual poem ritual):

1. Pick an element of life that has or deserves a ritual
2. Decide the result you would want the ritual to produce
3. Think of the actions you would take to achieve the result
4. Turn the actions into steps or commands

source: http://www.poewar.com/poetry-prompts/

borborygmus – a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines

pernicious – destructive, wicked, toxic

sibilant – having, producing, or containing the “ssss” or “shhh” sound

Write about your mother, or someone equally as disconcerting.

What does the inside of your brain look like? Is it a well-organized building of bureaucracy, where the paper only occasionally gets stuck in the printer? Or is it more surreal? Are there wide expanses or is it constricted? Are there other people in there? Perhaps there is no one at all, just microorganisms scuttling along the ridges? Mine looks like a garbage dump, where good and bad ideas alike come to rot like banana peels, and only the super-preserved shit gets re-used (eg. Hamlet and TS Eliot lines). How about you?

Write about an alien, a foreigner, a stranger. Or perhaps all 3.

(I’m stealing this from Figment, but whatever)

Write down a bunch of angry words, then try to use them all in a scene in which you describe something you’re grateful for or proud of.

Write about your favorite book. How do you relate with the characters in it? Would you have done things differently in their situation? What did you learn? What did you feel? Why did you feel it? Have you changed because of this book? Do you like the person you’ve become?

Make up a new character! Have ze (is that the right pronoun? I forgot. well, close enough.) be based on an activist or politician. Those are always especially fun because they have a cause that they are very passionate about for a particular reason that their life has built up toward.