About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #928389 added February 4, 2018 at 7:54pm Restrictions: None
Writing Olympics
Prompt: If there were an Olympics for writing, what are some of the events you'd participate in? Be as creative as you'd like...remember, this is a made-up thing, so feel free to make up any events you'd like.
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Nothing all that clever here, but I’d participate in two events that would focus on free-flow.
Event no:1 Carrying the Olympics Torch- Round Robin
7 people
The event starts with three random words from dictionary
The clock is set to five minutes. Everyone writes something with those three words during the five minutes.
Then the first person comes up with three words, and during the given five minutes, everyone has to use those words in whatever they are writing, but the trick is their work has to be the continuation of what they started with the first three words.
Then, the second person has his turn and everyone else takes turns. After the seventh person’s words are given and written for, everyone reads what they came up with to the group.
Event no: 2 Solo performance
Any number of people
An idea is given to the group, for example, the word road or a sentence from a book
Everyone is given five minutes to brainstorm and make a list of what they’ll write. There is no talking or sharing the ideas.
Then the group is given a short amount of time, say half an hour or fifteen minutes. Using their brainstorming lists, they write something that includes every item on their lists.
When the time is up, every piece is given a prize because all writers have to be given a prize.
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