Week 4 Tammy's Trio

Week 4 of the Bradbury Trio Challenge

Welcome to 4/4 Bradbury Trio Challenges for January!

Thank you for joining me for the Bradbury Trio Challenge this month! I hope the readings were intriguing to you in some way and a little different than what you usually read. Did you have a week of preferred readings? Which writing prompt was the one you enjoyed the most?

I would love to hear in the comments.

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

This trio structure inspires me to write after I read.

Good Words In = Good Words Out

My wish for you is for the reading you engage in today leads you to writing that could not have been created otherwise!

Week 4 Trio:

Poem: [My favorite time is in time’s other side] Etel Adnan

I love this poem. It has a random list of objects and it is about time. Any poem that lists marshmallow, pomegranates, and champagne is my kind of poem.

Bonus poem: Today

The format of this poem intrigues me. What would it look like to take your morning pages or random pages in your journal to snag snippets to put together in a poem?

Story: The Broken Clock

Essay: My Days in Food Service

There are so many threads to pull on in this essay. Commuting, waitressing, running…what stands out for you?

Writing Prompt:

Take a word, a phrase, a sentence, or an idea from one of these readings and write into it. Yes, it seems simple, but if you write in proximity to the readings you will find the influence coming to you softly like a whisper in your ear. You may not even recognize it til later. I have found some writers don’t recognize it at all! On one of the course Zoom’s someone made the comment that the readings didn’t influence them at all and other students pointed out where their piece reminded them of the readings.

Experiment and see what happens.

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If you like this concept and it fuels you I invite you to join me for 4 weeks of the Bradbury Trio Course! You can read more about the course here.

Email me at bradburytriocourse@gmail.com for registration and payment information.

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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 currently working on a short story collection. 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, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.