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Break it down
I am a big believer in breaks. I used to work myself into the ground when working on a writing project, and it inevitably showed in the quality of the finished product. After a quick scan of that day’s pages, I’d have to scrap whatever it was I had been working on while running on fumes. For years I followed this pattern–I know, I’m stubborn, and it takes me a while to catch on when change needs to happen.
When I started taking my writing more seriously, I finally allowed myself to take breaks. Now, it’s just part of my process. I walk away from my pages, eat a sandwich, go for a walk, do some laundry. Anything to gain some distance from my work and rest for my swollen brain. See, after gaining distance, you gain perspective, and perspective allows you to see what you’ve written much more clearly.
Speaking of perspective, before you press the “Post” button, be sure to check out the submission guidelines. If you’ve found some other yeah write writers you dig, why not ask them to be your writing partner? Everyone needs another set of eyes to point out the typos, content errors, and awkward phrasings in our posts.
When will the icicle melt?
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. It doesn’t have to melt until Phil sees his shadow, if you like. In case that’s not enough to get you going:
New inspiration for you
Introducing Prompt Up!
Prompt up is our new optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kick-off. It’s your job to use that prompt as the first sentence in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it somewhere else, change it, or yank it out completely.
This week’s winning nonfiction essay is I’ll Take You There by Meg. In it she tells of the Very Important Person who taught her how music can add to one’s daily life, so this week’s Prompt Up stood out to me: The music throws me back a bit harder than I expect.
January poetry slam: aubade
It’s the dawn of a new year, and so this month’s poetry slam is particularly fitting. An aubade is a love poem or song – in any form – welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. It’s the poem that you write for your lover after you slip out the window at sunrise, or the song, full of joy or sorrow, that you sing for the arrival of the dawn. Need more to get started? Rowan has all the details for you.
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Yeah write #247 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
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