Day 2: A Tiny Writing Experiment
An April Challenge: Day 2
In April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, I will post 30 days of Tiny Writing Experiments. I invite you to come along for the ride!
The experiments may lead to poems, or they may not, but they will be short creativity bursts you can play and have fun with!
I love self-inflicted challenges. They get me writing. I have done multiple 30 day and 100 day challenges. I enjoy a 5 and 10 day challenge too!
After listening to several podcast episodes and reading the book TINY EXPERIMENTS by Anne-Laure Le Cunuff, I started thinking about tiny writing experiments. If I am writing them for myself, I might as well share them!
What tiny experiments are you conducting?
I invite you to join me! Let’s get started!
Day 2 Tiny Experiment:
Write a poem with lines from books or poems.
One way I inspire my words is to read other writers' words. Take a stack of books from your bookshelves, randomly open them to pages, and see where your eyes land.
Comb through your own words (finished pieces or not) and cobble together something new with random lines.
Look through your notes or compost pile and pick and choose words, phrases and sentences and put them together. Rearrange them. Read them aloud.
Collect some last lines and see how those add to the recipe of what you are writing.
It may result in a poem. It might result in a mess. But play and have fun!
What will you write today?