Assignment: Write a poem using 4 of the following: A simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, 2 symbols, a paradoxical statement, or hyperbole. Response: A single candle Lit with the intensity of a thousand suns The flame jumps and dances Quietly speaking to anyone who will listen Like a quiet mourner in the night But the existence […]

Assignment: Write an interesting version of an existing recipe Response: Today, my young student, you will learn to make a special lasagna. It has four major parts, the red sauce, the bechamel (white sauce), a ricotta filling and then the structural components. You will need a small bundle of lasagna noodles, two large handfuls of […]

Assignment: Rewrite a fairy tale into a poem. Response: -The Ugly Duckling- Why must I be so different from the others? Outcast, Shamed and Insulted Fearing what life might bring with its next day Disappointment, strange looks and degradation Hiding myself more and more each day to adapt Can’t let the outside world see the […]

Assignment: A sestina has 6 six-line stanzas and concludes with a final three-line stanza. In addition, each of the 6 stanzas uses the same words at the end of each line (but not in the same order). And, the last three-line stanza must make use of those same (6) words. Your Task: Write a Sestina. […]

Assignment: Assemble a poem from various lines of a tour book, website, or other travel companion/resource Response: – A Cruise to Remember – God himself could not sink this ship! We place absolute confidence in the Titanic Southhampton, Cherbourg, New York Sails from New York 20 April 1912 Onboard swimming pool, a gymnasium Turkish bath, […]

Assignment: Imagine a person who uses public space as if it were private space. Write a description of this person in any form you chose, describing his/her actions. Response: He stood there, in the cookware section of the department store, staring intently into the bottom of one of the finest polished steel skillets in the […]

Assignment: The task is to write a ten-line poem. This poem must include a proverb, saying, or familiar phrase (examples: as fast as greased lightening, one foot in the grave, the whole nine yards) that you have changed in some way. This poem should also include five of the following words in it: cliff, blackberry, […]

New Category: Hobbies > Academic > Creative Writing http://www.disturbingthoughts.net/archives/hobbies/academic/creative_writin/ Under this heading I will post things I’ve been working on this semester in my Creative Writing course at CPCC. The posts will be in the format of Assignment as assigned and then my response to the assignment. Assignments that are particularly long may be linked […]