I turned on the radio and water came out
Hatches, Matches & Dispatches
Thirteen ways to look at it
Because it dissolves
The electrician is out of contact
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
You were being silly
He disappeared in the dead of winter
I sit in a dive on 52nd St
Knowing each other too well to talk
Out of the blue I remember. My father playing football
The brooks were frozen, airports closed
An island five miles inland
DECAY
They are living off their reputation but it cannot last
Catch 18, and it's going to get worse
That's a lovely offer, but
You were right my dear, even when you were mad
Mayfly
The best of times, the shittiest of times
If I grow up, I'm going to be a boy
The room was suddenly rich with soft light
Whacky Posters
Go tell it on the fucking mountain
TIN
Building new homes at Buschenwald
TACK
Time was away and somewhere else
I have a desert but no camel
The waiter does not come
I asked my son when was he getting married. In the afternoon, he said.
The day needs a plaster, a bandage
I stand for old values. Give the black man a fair crack of the whip
I dream of being loved by a chorus-girl
My guru says
I am old and I have too may layers of paint
There was a camp here
8 comments:
hello Alex,
This is a great resource! Usually, I just give myself a page number of any old book and pin the tale to the prompt, as it were.
Thanks,
Jo
Glad to be of service, Jo.
What I find interesting is that one set of prompts fires off loads of writing neurons, another leaves me stone cold dead.
Alex
Do you think that could be due, in part, to what you may be sub- consciously 'looking for' when you put the sets together?
Jo
I'm not sure that would make sense.
If I got "what I was looking for" wouldn't that make it easier to write a story?
If I have books to hand (poetry is best) and I browse for interesting phrases, certain poets seem much easier to write off. Don't know why. Maybe we have affinity for certain voices?
But, as I browse and post, "things get triggered"
eg:
I turned on the radio and water came out
RANDOM
Hatches, Matches & Dispatches
My parents reading the paper moons ago
Thirteen ways to look at it
RANDOM
Because it dissolves
RANDOM
The electrician is out of contact
RANDOM
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
TITLE OF A BOOK
You were being silly
RANDOM, FROM A POEM, CHANGED
He disappeared in the dead of winter
POEM
I sit in a dive on 52nd St
PARTLY FROM A POEM
Knowing each other too well to talk
POEM
Out of the blue I remember. My father playing football
RANDOM
The brooks were frozen, airports closed
POEM
An island five miles inland
SOMETHING I HEARD ABOUT THIS WEEKEND
DECAY
RANDOM
They are living off their reputation but it cannot last
I WENT TO A RESTAURANT, AND...
Catch 18, and it's going to get worse
RANDOM
That's a lovely offer, but
RANDOM
You were right my dear, even when you were mad
RANDOM
Mayfly
PROMPTED BY A POEM
The best of times, the shittiest of times
OBVIOUS? RANDOM
If I grow up, I'm going to be a boy
RANDOM
The room was suddenly rich with soft light
RANDOM
Whacky Posters
RANDOM (I PUT SOME ON A WALL)
Go tell it on the fucking mountain
RANDOM
TIN
RANDOM (I OFTEN SPLIT LINES UP WITH ONE-WORDERS TO BREAK LINKS
Building new homes at Buschenwald
RANDOM
TACK
RANDOM
Time was away and somewhere else
POEM
I have a desert but no camel
RANDOM
The waiter does not come
PROMPTED BY A POEM
I asked my son when was he getting married. In the afternoon, he said.
FROM A REAL PHONE CALL
The day needs a plaster, a bandage
RANDOM
I stand for old values. Give the black man a fair crack of the whip
RANDOM
I dream of being loved by a chorus-girl
RANDOM
My guru says
RANDOM
I am old and I have too may layers of paint
RANDOM
There was a camp here
FROM A CONVERSATION
What I note here (today) is that I've very few poem-bits
That must be why today I cannot write
no, what I meant (my fault for not being clear) was that you CAN'T write from some sets because you have moved away from what you were looking for at the time of putting the sets together.
so nw we've agreed this is a great resource, how about kicking some ass with it and having a mini-blast between the two of us? six hours or something?
Jo, we are already "blasting" in the free-to-guests part of Boot Camp
http://bootcampkeegan.yuku.com/directory
ok, i'm in. take a prompt from here and post in 'flashes'?
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