Prose-to-Poem Assignment
2. You may cut as much of the original as you want.
Lastly: Post your new creation, your Prose-turned-Poem, in the "Comments" box of this post by Wednesday, Sept. 30th. Be sure to attach your name to the post itself.
Find an existing piece of prose that you've written--a journal entry, a quickwrite, a section of a short story, a paragraph of an essay, a letter, your atmospheric description of a setting, or something else--and re-format it with a sense of line. Create line breaks to add pacing, drama, emphasis, suspense, or new associations.
Two rules:
1. You're not allowed to add anything new. What was there originally is all you've got to work with.
Two rules:
1. You're not allowed to add anything new. What was there originally is all you've got to work with.
2. You may cut as much of the original as you want.
Lastly: Post your new creation, your Prose-turned-Poem, in the "Comments" box of this post by Wednesday, Sept. 30th. Be sure to attach your name to the post itself.
