Five hundred and forty three days ago, my friend Kelly and I challenged each other to write a poem every day. 543 days!!! We promised each other we would spend at least seven minutes each day and have gone through two books of prompts.<\/p>\n
Now we’re creating our own prompts. We’ll be posting samples of our prompts each week. We hope you might try them and post them to either Kelly’s or my blog.<\/p>\n
The rules are simple:<\/p>\n
Don’t think about it too much; just do it. Write a poem, paragraph, or story. If the prompt moves you, follow it.\u00a0If it sparks something else, go with it!<\/strong>\u00a0Our 7-Minute Poetry Challenge<\/em><\/strong> is not about writing great poetry; or writing what is expected; it’s not even about writing anything good. It’s about one thing, writing<\/strong> IT<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n Challenge #1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ready for School!?<\/p>\n On the first day of school what things do you bring? A backpack? Pen? Paper? Maybe you\u2019ll wear a new pair of jeans or sneakers.<\/p>\n Think about it: Not only will it be your first day of school, it will be that \u201cthings\u201d first day of school, too.<\/p>\n How do you think those \u201cthings\u201d feel about going to school for the first time? Write a \u201cFirst Day of School\u201d poem from the point of view of one of those things.<\/p>\n Note: It can be the first day of anything. Just tell the story from the point of view of one of the things you bring with you that first day.<\/p>\n For inspiration read: School\u2019s First Day of School,<\/em> written by Adam Rex and illustrated by Christian Robinson (Roaring Brook Press, 2016), the story of the first day of school as told by Fredrick Douglass Elementary\u2014a brand new school building.<\/p>\n To see samples from this prompt (and a cute picture of my niece and nephew) visit Kelly’s blog: http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/2017\/9\/seven-minute-strrretch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five hundred and forty three days ago, my friend Kelly and I challenged each other to write a poem every day. 543 days!!! We promised each other we would spend at least seven minutes each day and have gone through two books of prompts. Now we’re creating our own prompts. We’ll be posting samples of … Continue reading “Seven Minute Poetry Challenge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}