Mar 29, 2017
Poetry Challenge 13: A Novel Approach to Wordbanks
Pick up one of your favorite novels, or just anything off your shelf with a prose style you enjoy. Flip through the first third of the book and grab 5-10 words to form a mini word bank. Then flip through the middle third and grab another 5-10. Do the same with the last third.
Write a 3 stanza or 3 part poem where you use the first mini bank for the first stanza, the second for the second, and the third bank for the third.
For bonus points, reverse the order and combine with Challenge 14 (coming soon). For the record, my go-to novels for this exercise are Toni Morrison’s work.
