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2021 Writing Exercise Series #17: Between a Fact and an Exact Place 1

   

The 2021 Writing Series is a series of daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep their 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.

This is not a standard writing session. This is pure production—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 it, you will be able to complete all of the exercises in under 30 minutes. 

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Between a Fact and an Exact Place 1


For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following place (either as the setting, referenced or some aspect of it described) and the following fact in some way (its discovery, used as a metaphor, witnessed etc).


Fact: The longest recorded bird flight was 7500 miles (12,000 km). A bar-tailed godwit flew non-stop for 11-days from feeding in Alaska's mudflats to Auckland, New Zealand.

As an additional assignment, should you choose to incorporate it, is as follows: Also include the words "Elevator" "Gush" "Republic" "Pillow" and "Slack".

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