7 Days Remain

A continuation of my #last100days2023 project

Welcome to my #last100dayproject!

What will you do with the remaining 7 days of 2023?

You have one week left of this year. What do you need to wrap up before the calendar changes?

Today’s prompt:

What image or memory comes to mind when you think of “poem”?

Do you have a favorite poem?

One you read as a tradition?

I read at least one poem a day. I receive the Paris Review poem of the day in my inbox every day. I read a lot of other poems as well. I started this practice years ago when I learned about Ray Breadbury’s Trio. His alternative to an MFA to read a poem, essay, and short story every day for 1000 nights.

If this sounds appealing to you I am curating lists of readings and assembling a group to dine at the reading table! We gather round and talk about reading and then write about it! Reply to this message for details and answers to your questions!

I invite you to search your notebooks and drives for the prompt word and see what drafts you have that you can resurrect and revise.

What will you write today?

• A list

• A metaphor

• A memory

• One sentence

• A conversation imagined between you and a stranger

Whatever you choose - have fun!

Happy writing!

I invite you to leave a comment!

You belong simply because you are here.

If you like this prompt join my offering starting in January!

The Bradbury Trio [reading a poem, an essay, and a story every day] fuels my writing.

This trio structure works for me because I am inspired to write after I read.

In this 12-week course, I will share my strategies of how I use my reading to influence my writing.

Reading is vital to the writing life! It also reduces stress. Come see what can emerge from your writing when you are fueled with reading, community, and a guide!

A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.