A couple of months in the past, I published one zero one Inventive Writing Workout routines, a ebook that takes you on an adventure by the world of inventive writing.

The book is filled with fun and sensible workout routines that impart helpful writing strategies while inspiring you with loads of ideas for brand new and in-progress projects.

Experiment with fiction, poetry, freewriting, journaling, memoir, and article writing.

Immediately, I’d wish to share an exercise from “Chapter Eight: Free Verse.” This artistic writing train is titled “Cut-and-Paste Poetry.” Get pleasure from!

Cut-and-Paste Poetry

Most artistic writing exercises are designed that can assist you concentrate on one particular area, corresponding to rhyme, alliteration, or imagery. This one works on a number of levels.

First, this train supplies a nice, zen-like break out of your day by day routine as a result of it entails greater than sitting down and writing. You’ll get to search through clippings and perform a little slicing and pasting (the old-fashioned reduce and paste with scissors and glue, not the computer-based mostly lower and paste).

Second, this exercise supplies an excellent different to recycling those growing stacks of previous magazines, newspapers, and brochures that are sitting around amassing dust.

You'll be able to come back to this exercise time and again for future poetry writing sessions.

You’ll want some supplies and a few time. Try to put aside an hour or two (and word that you can break this train up over a number of days and even longer).
What You’ll Need (Supplies)

Outdated printed material: magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, adverts, photocopies, junk mail, etc.

    * A small field, basket, jar, or other container
    * A pair of scissors
    * A glue stick or a roll of clear tape
    * A bit of blank paper (building paper works well; you can too use a piece of cardboard or a page in your notebook)
    * Highlighter (elective)

The Train

Step One: Undergo old magazines, pamphlets, printouts, and photocopies. Any printed material will do. Scan by the text to search out phrases and phrases that are interesting and capture your consideration and imagination. You can highlight the text that you simply like, or move straight ahead to step two.

Step Two: Lower out the phrases you’ve chosen and place them in your container.

Step Three: When you've gotten a nice pile of clippings, pull some out and spread them throughout a flat work surface. Sift through the phrases, pairing completely different clippings collectively to see how the phrasing sounds. Place the ones you like finest on a bit of paper, arrange them into a poem, and use glue or tape to adhere them.

Ideas: Search for phrases and images that pop. When you’re all achieved, save the leftover clippings so you'll be able to repeat this train once more later.

Variations: When you find it troublesome to cobble collectively a whole poem out of your clippings, then use a pen or pencil so as to add extra phrases and phrases in an effort to full your poem. You may as well clip some photographs, and incorporate them to create a multimedia poetry collage that can also be a piece of art.

Applications: This poetry writing train reminds you to deal with phrase alternative and language. It encourages you to go outdoors your self for inspiration by piecing components from completely different sources collectively to make one thing new.