Week Two PROMPT:
Write
a life moment of yours (or someone else's) as if you are narrating a
dream. By this I mean, it does not have to be linear. Imagine Jackie
Kennedy after the assassination of her husband - it must have felt like a
dream, looking back at that moment for her. Clipped images or voices
sort of bumping into each other.
The moment you write of can be small or large (sometimes I choose the moment I was born, and write as if I remember it. Sometimes I challenge myself to write five stanzas about finding a pearl earring in the grass.) It’s up to you. (It always is!) Use images as verbs to convey tone. Use temperature and sound. Smell. Texture. Surprise the reader by describing a horror with an alarmingly ordinary thing, i.e. “The cold girls were found out back / daisying the field.” Below is a word pool, for a kickstart:
porcelain
The moment you write of can be small or large (sometimes I choose the moment I was born, and write as if I remember it. Sometimes I challenge myself to write five stanzas about finding a pearl earring in the grass.) It’s up to you. (It always is!) Use images as verbs to convey tone. Use temperature and sound. Smell. Texture. Surprise the reader by describing a horror with an alarmingly ordinary thing, i.e. “The cold girls were found out back / daisying the field.” Below is a word pool, for a kickstart:
porcelain
darkening
sermon
flooded
glitter
rabbits
amnesia
lipstick'd
devour
anchor
carpentry
sugar
polite
bones
magnified
fisted
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