Description: did you write today?
Today I got together with the few people I workshop with on Saturday mornings: Duffy (in his 70’s), Barbara (in her 60’s), Alice (In her 70’s), and Sam (17). We have been exploring “voice,” and in doing so, I presented a series of prompts as warm-ups to get us to a five-minute “free write.” In brief (because I hope you will read through to the end), what follows are the instructions, the prompts, and the writings.
In order to randomize our exercises, we begin with a book. Someone gives me a page number, someone gives me a line number, and someone gives me a word number. From that word we write.
But before beginning the first writing exercise, we chose a word and then took turns doing spontaneous response to the left for several rounds. Then we chose another word and took turns doing spontaneous response to the right for several rounds. This was warm-up for the following writing exercises.