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“It’s a dinglehopper.”
Since everything I’ve posted lately in the coffeehouse has been about the writing class I’m taking, I figured I’d catch everybody up on what I’m learning. Bonus: it’s season appropriate!
Have you ever had a piece of writing explain something familiar to you in such a way that it seemed bizarre, like that scene in Disney’s The Little Mermaid when Ariel is showing Scuttle the things she found in a shipwreck. She pulls out a fork and Scuttle tells her humans use them to fix their hair, and we’re all like, yeah, forks do look a lot like combs, man. Or have you ever read a passage that explained a strange concept in a completely relatable way? Think of the description of any futuristic gadget in a sci-fi novel and you know what I mean.
The idea is that an author can introduce a lot of character backstory without the often clunky flashback passage clogging up the pacing of the story by making something strange to us readers familiar or vice versa. For an excellent example of an author simultaneously doing both, read Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine from her collection Interpreter of Maladies. No matter which side of the Pacific you’re from, you’ll never see a pumpkin the same way.
After you’ve tried making the strange familiar or the familiar strange, but before you’re ready to submit, make sure to check out the submission guidelines. A refresher course–or a peek at our guidelines if you’re new–will help you to click that submit button with confidence.
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Where did you take the wolverine?
The optional prompt above can serve as inspiration for your fiction or poetry. Use the question word for word in your story or poem, or just answer it. Have fun with this, but tread carefully: it’s pretty easy to wander off the path into a minefield called Comic Book Copyright infringement. Already have a different story thought up? No problem! Use the prompt only if you need it.
More inspiration
Need a bit more? For this month’s focus on fiction, we are brooding at our desks smoking a Noir brand cigarette. In the poetry corner, we’re conjuring up riddles.
Still drawing a blank? You can also find writing exercises in the coffeehouse to get things started. You’ll notice we moved it to a Facebook group: much easier access and interaction!
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Yeah write #236 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
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