A Writer's Notebook, Two-Thousand-Four-Hundred-And-Sixty-Three
I am in the beginning of working on some writing exercises for a poetry workshop that I want to do in January. It's going to be a generative workshop, with a focus on some fairly straightforward writing exercises that are designed to be simple and reusable. For me, a lot of the time I find that when I look into writing exercises, what I find are just prompts, which can help, but are often not very easy to repeat. I'm thinking about playful things that one can do without even needing to think about what you want to write, but instead focus on simply playing around with language itself in ways that have helped me to get going when I am stuck. I want it to be fun and accessible, while still providing something truly valuable. To me, play is often an essential ingredient in the process, even, maybe especially, when the work is most serious in its intent. That spark of playfulness is often what lets me, and I would expect other writers, explore and discove...