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Several pro pts from out December 9 round robin. Answer all or any of them.
Prompt # 1
75- words, genre of your choice, using the following 3 words in your response:
Snow, winter, shovel.
Prompt #2
Begin a story poem etc. of 40 words or less with these words
The dog was walking across the thin ice
Prompt #3
75- words, genre of your choice, using the following word in your response: snickerdoodle
Prompt #475-words or less, genre of your choice, use the following words in your response:
Widershins & Whippersnapper
Prompt #575- words or less, genre of your choice, use the following word in your response: Captain
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Check out episode 93 of Writing Works Wonders to hear how our participants handled these very same prompts in and on the spot, improvisational context. They were tremendous!
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Marlene Mesot
#1 Winter in New Hampshire
(Nonfiction)
12/09/2022
I loved winter growing up in NH because I love snow sliding, making snowballs and even shoveling. I loved hearing it crunch under my feet. I remember one year when I was six, we had so much snow that it was piled over twice as high as I was on both sides of our walkway.
Marlene Mesot
#2 Dog on the Ice
(Cinquain)
The dog was walking across the thin ice.
He didn’t think nor look around twice.
If the ice broke,
It would be no joke.
Do you think he would float?
Marlene Mesot
#4 Time Warp
12/09/2022
You young whippersnappers think you know everything. You think you can control time by forcing wider shins into the loop. Well, it doesn’t work that way. That is impossible.
Marlene Mesot
#3 Snickerdoodle Dandy
(Parody)
I’m a snickerdoodle dandy,
I love that ginger snappy high,
A festive treat for the holidays,
But not on the Fourth of July.
I’m a snickerdoodle dandy,
How many cookies can I buy?
Wrap them in a pretty package to take home.
Will they make it? I sure can try.
I’m a snickerdoodle dancy.
Snickerdoodles can you count?
How many cookies top that mount?
I am a snickerdoodle guy.
Marlene Mesot
#5 My Captain
Captain Crunch is a cereal.
Captain America is a serial.
Captain Kangaroo was a children’s show.
Captain of a ship is a leader you know.
Oh captain, my captain, steer this ship straight.
Oh captain, my captain, do not seal my fate.
Abbie Taylor
Winter Disaster
In dismay, I stared out my back door at twenty-foot piles of snow that had accumulated in previous days. The stuff was still falling. My shovel’s handle peeked out from one of the drifts. Even if I could get to it, I couldn’t clear all the snow from my walks and driveway or get my car out of the garage. Sighing, I closed the door, resigned to yet another snow day.
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