12/26/23

Notebooking Daily University: Poetic Explorations 'Memory' 6-Class Course

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 Welcome to Notebooking Daily's first ever self-paced poetry writing class, Poetic Explorations. This is a 'six-week class' done on your own time, at your own pace, and it will be much more open-ended than a standard...

8/16/23

Daily Prompt 10: Three Things #3

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 Daily Prompt 10: Three Things #3For today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which includes the following 3 things: The Mississippi River, A Falcon and A Shovel.You can use these things in any way that you'd like, but try to make them at least kinda important to the piece and not just used...

8/15/23

Daily Prompt 9: Memory Object #1

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 Daily Prompt 9: Memory Object #1For today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which is very much centered on one object  which is presented in your speaker's past/memory. That object which the character has a memory of is... A Rubber Duck bath toyYou might have a character see the object...

8/14/23

Daily Prompt 8: Title Mania #1

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 Daily Prompt 8: Title Mania #1For today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which uses one of the following four possible titles:1) The Unmovable Rock2) Along the Dirt Trail3) Can of Worms4) Froth isn't the Right Word, But it's CloseThat's it. Make the title make sense for the piece, use it...

8/13/23

Daily Prompt 7: Three Things #2

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 Daily Prompt 7: Three Things #2For today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which includes the following 3 things: Sunday, A Hammer and A Pecan Pie.You can use these things in any way that you'd like, but try to make them at least kinda important to the piece and not just used in a throwaway...

7/30/23

Daily Prompt 6: Three Things #1

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Daily Prompt 6: Three Things #1For today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which includes the following 3 things: An Elephant, A Cardboard Box and A Scarf.You can use these things in any way that you'd like, but try to make them at least kinda important to the piece and not just used in a throwaway...

7/29/23

Daily Prompt 5: Fallen from a Tree

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Daily Prompt 5: Fallen from a TreeFor today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which revolves around something falling out of a tree. This could be the narrator/a character, it could be a branch or 'widow maker' limb, fruit (ala Isaac Newton's apple maybe?) a poorly constructed treehouse, a crashed...

7/28/23

Daily Prompt 4: Late for work

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Daily Prompt 4: Late for workFor today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which uses the narrative of the speaker/main character being late for work. Be sure to give the lateness some gravitas (are they worried they'll be fired, lose a promotion, are they opening a restaurant/store by themselves?...

6/8/23

Daily Prompt 3: Flat Bike Tire

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 Daily Prompt 3: Flat Bike TireFor today's piece, write a poem or piece of prose which centers on a flat bike tire. It could happen mid-journey, it could be a metaphor for lost opportunities or it could be whatever you want. But grab onto the idea of a what a flat bike tire could stop, cause, represent...

6/7/23

Daily Prompt 2: Three Things 1

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 New Series, new set of numbers. I have tons of Three Things Prompts on the blog, and the concept is simple, take the following 3 things, and write a piece which makes them integral to the narrative or meaning of the poem. My best tip: Find a solid connection or way you can connect two of...

6/6/23

5/30/23

Signs of life

 
School life is rough. It's exhausting. I can see a pathway to it being less exhausting, but that means investing less time into teach, less effort, less of a f*ck. But it's really hard for me to stop. This means my means and my modes will shift. But I can't stop myself from giving as much of my time...