The Notebooking Daily 2020 Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts take the impetus—that initial crystal of creation—out of your hands (for the most part) and changes your writing creation into creative problem solving. Instead of being preoccupied with the question "What do I write" you are instead pondering "How do I make this work?" And in the process you are producing new writing.
These exercises are not meant to be a standard writing session. They are meant to be productive and to keep your brain thinking about using language to solve simple or complex problems. The worst thing you can do is sit there inactive. It's like taking a 5 minute breather in the middle of a spin class—the point is to push, to produce something, however imperfect. If you don't overthink them, you will be able to complete all of the exercises in under 30 minutes.
#354
Ekphrastic Continuum 19
For today, we're going to write a poem or prose piece inspired by another piece of art, or an ekphrastic piece. The piece of art in question is this watercolor piece titled "The Great Cat Continuum" from the amazing 'secret' darker artwork of Dr. Seuss.
No handholding today. You have the image, the title if you want to use that to influence the piece, what is it that strikes you about? What are those rectangles? Windows, doorways, some metaphor? The right side is darker but calmer looking, does this represent something or is it more visual? You tell us, in the world of your piece, you're the one in charge. And you decide what about this world is interesting right now, whether you're focusing on something small or encapsulating the larger picture...
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