Firestarter Challenge (8/7/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 1 Title: Like Struck Matches
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- Imagery: A doll with one eye missing half-buried in a pile of fall leaves.
- Persona: A smart Hooter’s waitress.
- Form- Basic: An American Sentence.
- Form- Complex: Write an imagistic narrative poem/flash fiction using only American Sentences, each describing one detail of a scene, so that they can be piece together to tell the story.
- Sound: \t\ and \k\ as in “Take care, cannibals, totems took their toll on the kooky clowns of Nantucket.”