Mr. Van Camp wants me to write a poem. Where do I begin?
Often a good starting point is to write down images related to your topic. Then move them around like a puzzle until the parts fit. As an exercise in this, your task is to choose ten interesting images from the short story Identities. Now piece them together to form a completely new story or to describe a scene that is different than what is developed in the story.
You may use a few lines or words of your own to help the images flow together. Put your own words in italics. Of course you may also change the tense or form of a word slightly by placing the word in square brackets[ ].
Pay particular attention to the layout of the poem. This is verse not prose. Do not write a paragraph.
Your title must be a word or line from the story but not Identities.
This is a good process for writing your own poetry, songs, or other pieces of creative writing
Often a good starting point is to write down images related to your topic. Then move them around like a puzzle until the parts fit. As an exercise in this, your task is to choose ten interesting images from the short story Identities. Now piece them together to form a completely new story or to describe a scene that is different than what is developed in the story.
You may use a few lines or words of your own to help the images flow together. Put your own words in italics. Of course you may also change the tense or form of a word slightly by placing the word in square brackets[ ].
Pay particular attention to the layout of the poem. This is verse not prose. Do not write a paragraph.
Your title must be a word or line from the story but not Identities.
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