Daily Nourishment for April 7: Poetry, Play, and Creating New Endings
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
Is it time to play a bit and let another writer fuel your creativity?
Pause.
Prompt.
Jose Hernandez Diaz also writes poems that have a lot of surrealism.
Let’s use the poem above and Diaz’s use of surrealism in several of his other poems as inspiration.
Set a timer for eight minutes.Write about a recent phone call or text exchange with a family member or friend.
Then write a new ending. Experiment! Play! What else could’ve been said? What could’ve been left unsaid? Make stuff up. Make it weird.
Practice.
Add one sentence to three more conversations today. After each phone call, text, or email exchange is complete, create something new. Don’t overthink it. Let your imagination extend what seems to be finished. Then see what happens next.
Want More?
Read about Jose Hernandez Diaz’s typical writing day.
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