Lifted from Song Talk with Morry Campbell.
This writing assignment involves working with a chapter in the book Writing Down the Bones.
So here's the challenge. Based on the chapter First Thoughts from the book: Get a notepad of some kind, and write in it for a pre-determined amount of time every day for a week. If you already keep a journal, then you're set. If you don't, start one, at least for the next week. Write every day, and write for the same amount of time. If it's five minutes, let it be five minutes. If it's ten, make it ten. Twenty minutes, thirty--whatever is doable for you. Keep in mind the following rules:
Keep your hand moving
Don't cross out
Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar.
Lose control
Don't think. Don't get logical.
Go for the jugular
Ms. Goldberg goes into much more detail in the book, so read on for further advice on how to make that work for you.
Anyway, back to the assignment. After you've journaled in this way for seven days, on the eighth day, go back and read what you have written. Look for something, anything, that sparks your imagination, and write a song (or poem, or essay, or something) around it.
Soon we meet, yes?
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- Coming of Age With Elephants by Joyce Poole (Autobiography)
- Inventing English by Seth Lerer (Nonfiction, Historical, Etymological)
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My comment turned into a post. See it here.
So, let me get this straight. You put a post up on FRIDAY, and now it's SATURDAY, and you're upset you don't have any comments. Girl, you are so worse than me.
I'm sitting here with a sunburned nose from the outing at UMW for the Multicultural Fair, I have to pick out two rooms in the house to straighten up before I go to bed (everybody in the house gets two rooms--I'll probably end up with the two bathrooms--gag!), AND I'm stressing because I gave Editor Rob a promise that I'd write the article for the Front Porch by tomorrow NIGHT!!!! No pressure, though . . . .
Just remember all the laughs and hilarity from the other night; we should have stayed at Castiglia's and drank all night around that big round table! Some kind of crazy fun.
(Just so you feel read, I will post this note on your main page, too.)
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