Firestarter Challenge Begins!
OK, here’s the deal. Everyday there will be five exercises to choose from to get your creative juices flowing. They’ll be broken up into categories like :Sounds, Devices, Imagery, Forms, Personas, Ekphrastic, etc. If you wish to enter the Firestarter Challenge, your piece must have the chosen title of the week. You can enter one poem, or one short story (1500 word max) per week, (which, for you math majors out there, is 4 pieces, except this month, which will only have 3 weeks in the challenge) and every month one winner will be chosen, their piece posted, and they will get their fabulous prize, which will change every month, but will consist mainly of cash or books.
Firestarter Challenge Week 1 Title: Like Struck Matches
- Imagery: A folding Chair in the middle of a field.
- Persona: A parking garage/lot attendant in a northern state during an unusually cold winter.
- Form- Basic: English Sonnet.
- Form- Complex: Two English Sonnets telling a narrative from two opposing perspectives, use discrepancies and differing tones to tell the real story, which would be the relationship between the two poem narrators.
- Sound: \A\ as in “Someday the great waste of paste will grace his stomach casing with ulcers and pain.”