Thursday

Transformative Language Arts Network: I'm speaking at a conference, again!

I'm facilitating another workshop! check it out!

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dreams: Writing Prompt!

Dear Readers/Writers:
For immediate and amazing inspiration, I highly recommend owning a copy of any of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. Better yet, one of those "Complete Works of.." compilations.
I found mine on the Discount Table recently. Real books have an advantage over the Kindle versions just because you can take the real book, place it on the real table, and play the game of letting the book fall open to any of the real pages. Then, take your hand, and let it fall anywhere on the page. I promise you, wherever your hand falls, if you read the passage, it will be  incredible use of the English language.
So, here we go,....my hand falls on a page within the story, "
This Side of Paradise," by
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
".....it seemed that he had closed
the book of fading harmonies at last....
Even his dreams now were faint violins,
drifting like summer sounds upon the summer air."

Writing Prompt:  Which of your dreams are
now like
 "...faint violins" ?
This can take shape as a journal entry,
an excerpt from your autobiography,
or even a poem. Please write.
 
Jo'el
writingprompt@aol.com

 

Sunday

Walk 'n Write Denver: Poet's Row Apartments, Sherman Street



Walk 'n Write Denver Adventures:
A writers guide to walking in the city, with writing prompts!
Today we walk down Poet's Row, in central Denver.
Writing prompt below description.


An apartment on Poet's Row.
 Poets Row: Emily Dickinson
1015 Sherman Street | Denver, CO | 80203 | (303) 830-100

 “I dwell in possibility. ” - Emily Dickinson

From Real Estate Web Site: www.tritonproperties.com
"Built in 1956, this building consists of 30 quaint studio apartments.  Observed by the National Register of Historic Places, this building is located on the Poets Row, a row of six buildings named after noted authors and poets. Each building is as unique as the poet it is named after!"



 


Emily Dickinson: 
1830 – 1886: Wrote 1700 poems (at least !)
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.



127:  "Houses"—so the Wise Men tell me—

"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there—
Some, would even trudge tonight!

Writing Prompt:
Where is your mansion? What does it look like?
Walk us through the rooms, and tell us who is there.