{"id":3391,"date":"2015-07-13T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T13:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2015-08-17T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:20:40","slug":"summer-writing-journal-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Summer Writing Journal: Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking Out the\u00a0Window:<\/strong>\u00a0Try an observation poem, based on what you see out your window. Adapt this as needed, writing down things you see out the window on a car trip or just on a drive around town. If you’d like,\u00a0substitute plane or bus or the window of your house or apartment or office. For those of you who like more rules: try to be detailed. Not just “corn” but “stalks of corn, stretching toward the Virginia sky.” Make your first words some variation on: “Looking out my car window, I see:”<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>: So in my first post I mentioned that when I want to access feelings, I can conjure them up when I play songs from certain times of my life. Write down three of your summer jams. Option: Write a short music review of your summer jams. Why do you like them? What do they remind you of?<\/p>\n

And while we’re talking music:<\/strong>\u00a0Write your own summer jam! It can be a story-telling song. It can be short. It can be long. You can just come up with a catchy chorus. If you don’t like open-ended ideas and want more direction: how about a mid-summer blues, to the tune of Muddy Waters’ Mannish Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Object game:<\/strong> Here’s one I used with my creative writing students at Boston University. Gather a few objects from around your house. You can include things like plants, a hairbrush, a hat, a bar of soap, etc. Then write down two lists for each object. List one is objective words that describe the object: things everyone can agree on. It’s green. It’s plastic. It has an odor.<\/em> List two is subjective words that come from inside you. It’s the color of spring. It smells like possibility. <\/em>Each type of description has its place in writing. Which type do you like best?<\/p>\n

Person, place AND\u00a0thing: <\/strong>Sometimes it’s hard to describe what things look like. So now let’s try a variation on the object game, above. Pick a person, place, AND thing and try to describe them, one at a time. You don’t need to use complete sentences if you don’t want to. Just get down thoughts and images and tangible details. If you’d like, you can draw a picture as well.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: And for those of you who are following up with\u00a0some story writing: Let’s look at some of the other characters in your story. Every character wants something. Write down what each character wants. Also, not that you need my permission for this: keep writing that story. Take it as far as you want to go!<\/p>\n

Week 1 prompts are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Week 2 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 3 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 4 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 5 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 7 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 8 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 9 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 10 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Week 11 prompts are here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking Out the\u00a0Window:\u00a0Try an observation poem, based on what you see out your window. Adapt this as needed, writing down things you see out the window on a car trip or just on a drive around town. If you’d like,\u00a0substitute … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,192,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer","category-summer-reading","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}