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soren & jolles bring you two new characters, Dolores & Jean. D&J will show you that anything you thought was bad, really wasn’t. Jessie and I love these ladies. We hope you love them too!

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WRITING PROMPT #7 OF 30

NaProWriMo # 7:

I’ve been thinking about rejection letters lately. I’ve received some super sweet ones (I’m winking at you, Collagist!) and also some fairly rude ones (how YOU doin, Anti- ?) and also the same form rejection from the same magazine like eight times (Rattle.)

If you know me and my writing philosophies, you know that I urge my students to collect one hundred rejection slips. Rejection can be it’s own kind of fuel.

I want you to make a list of people, places, institutions that have rejected you: colleges, pretty girls, sports teams. Make a list of things that it seems this life just doesn’t want you to have: a comfortable job situation, a life with gluten. And then write yourself a form rejection letter from that thing—let it be a gentle letdown, or be a jerk about it. 

I’ve had the pleasure of working with one of the writers for Welcome to Nightvale recently, so let this quote be your inspiration:

“Thank you for your interest in a life free of pain. We are not accepting applications at this time. Please try again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again…” 
- WTNV

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Megan Falley is the author of two collections of poetry, After the Witch Hunt (2012) and Redhead & the Slaughter King (forthcoming in 2014), both published by Write Bloody Press. In honor of National Poetry Month, she will be posting a writing prompt per day over at her artist page.

"And while I look backon the memories with equal, if not morerepulsion, I know that I wasn’t an..."

“And while I look back

on the memories with equal, if not more

repulsion, I know that I wasn’t an idiot

to stay. That my heart invented

its own verb which meant To Love

The Dog Who Licks The Scar It Gave You.”

- Megan Falley (via thoseunvoicedwords)

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WRITING PROMPT #3 of 30.

Today’s prompt is brought to you by the letters F-L-E-E-T-W-O-O-D M-A-C and a lyric from their song Gypsy. “I was a child, and the child was enough.”

So often we define ourselves by the things we lack. Make a list of 5 or more arenas in your life where you have told yourself (or the world has told you) that you are not enough.

Now, list 3-5 images per each example that illustrate that untruth. For example, my first untruth is “not thin enough.” Images for thin might be—ribs that poke through a ribcage, a gap between the thighs, a boy who can pick me up and spin me around. 

Write a letter/poem to a child. Subvert this culture of shame. Tell them all of the things they don’t need through images, i.e.:: “you don’t need a gap between your thighs. You don’t need a boy who can throw you around.”) Your only job in the world is to convince that child of this. 

If you haven’t figured it out by now, YOU are the child. And you are enough.

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Megan Falley is the author of two collections of poetry, After the Witch Hunt (2012) and Redhead & the Slaughter King (forthcoming in 2014), both published by Write Bloody Press. In honor of National Poetry Month, she will be posting a writing prompt per day over at her artist page.

FREE POETRY WRITING PROMPTS

FREE POETRY WRITING PROMPTS:

i root for you!

I've never gone to a poetry slam, but I saw your post saying we could email you poetry... could I maybe email you a short video and you could say whether or not this poem is slam-worthy?

Hi there! I think the only way to test out if you should slam something is to go to a poetry slam and read it! I am definitely not the barometer of such things. Good luck!

After watching every youtube video of yours I could find I bought your book, read it in one sitting and loved it! As a eighteen year old girl I'd never been given any poetry to read that was so engaging, honest and beautiful. I'm eagerly awaiting your next

I’M SUGAR BLUSHING. I’d love to put you on to some of my favorite poets. Definitely check out the work of women poets April Ranger, Rachel McKibbens, Jeanann Verlee, Angel Nafis, Natalie Diaz, Shira Erlichman, & Dorianne Laux. I also highly recommend Danez Smith, Hieu Mihn Nyguen, Richard Siken, and Miles Walser. Holler when you get through that list!

After watching every youtube video of yours I could find I bought your book, read it in one sitting and loved it! As a eighteen year old girl I'd never been given any poetry to read that was so engaging, honest and beautiful. I'm eagerly awaiting your next

I’M SUGAR BLUSHING. I’d love to put you on to some of my favorite poets. Definitely check out the work of women poets April Ranger, Rachel McKibbens, Jeanann Verlee, Angel Nafis, Natalie Diaz, Shira Erlichman, & Dorianne Laux. I also highly recommend Danez Smith, Hieu Mihn Nyguen, Richard Siken, and Miles Walser. Holler when you get through that list!