Clear Out the Static in Your Attic
This is a fun, easy-to-follow guidebook for writers, offering a collection of fun and thought-provoking writing inspiration to crush writers blok. It includes exercises, reflections, and prompts for both story writers and poets. The book provides prompts, examples, and helpful tips to unleash your creative power and help you write your best work. Just like an attic filled with treasures, your mind is already brimming with everything you need to write your story or poem – a lifetime's worth of material. We are here to guide you in transforming your memories and the words that are already part of your life into captivating stories, poems, and essays. The prompts in this book, structured around common items found in an attic, will help you draw inspiration from everyday objects and experiences. Written by Rebecca Bridge and Isla McKetta.
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Clear Out the Static in Your Attic
This is a fun, easy-to-follow guidebook for writers, offering a collection of fun and thought-provoking writing inspiration to crush writers blok. It includes exercises, reflections, and prompts for both story writers and poets. The book provides prompts, examples, and helpful tips to unleash your creative power and help you write your best work. Just like an attic filled with treasures, your mind is already brimming with everything you need to write your story or poem – a lifetime's worth of material. We are here to guide you in transforming your memories and the words that are already part of your life into captivating stories, poems, and essays. The prompts in this book, structured around common items found in an attic, will help you draw inspiration from everyday objects and experiences. Written by Rebecca Bridge and Isla McKetta.
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Clear Out the Static in Your Attic

Clear Out the Static in Your Attic

Clear Out the Static in Your Attic

Clear Out the Static in Your Attic

Overview

This is a fun, easy-to-follow guidebook for writers, offering a collection of fun and thought-provoking writing inspiration to crush writers blok. It includes exercises, reflections, and prompts for both story writers and poets. The book provides prompts, examples, and helpful tips to unleash your creative power and help you write your best work. Just like an attic filled with treasures, your mind is already brimming with everything you need to write your story or poem – a lifetime's worth of material. We are here to guide you in transforming your memories and the words that are already part of your life into captivating stories, poems, and essays. The prompts in this book, structured around common items found in an attic, will help you draw inspiration from everyday objects and experiences. Written by Rebecca Bridge and Isla McKetta.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938912467
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Publication date: 03/14/2014
Edition description: First edition
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Isla McKetta is the author of Polska, 1994 (Éditions Checkpointed) and co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic: A Writer's Guide for Turning Artifacts into Art (Write Bloody). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington and has served on the boards of Seattle City of Literature and Hugo House. Isla makes her home in Seattle where she writes fiction, poetry, and book reviews. Find her on the web at www.islamcketta.com. Rebecca Bridge was born in the country in rural Illinois surrounded by cornfields, deep woods, horse pastures, swimming holes, and raspberry patches. She received a BA in Poetry from Columbia College and an MFA in Creative writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Rebecca is the author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic: A Writer’s Guide to Turning Artifacts into Art (Write Bloody, 2014), co-writer of the award-winning short film Wednesday’s Child (Potenza Productions, 2013), and A Month’s Worth of Instructional Poems (V Press LC, forthcoming). Rebecca works as a freelance writer, artist, jewelry maker, academic, and mother and lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, son, and two dogs.

Table of Contents

Introductions 13

Inspiration 17

Baby Shoes: Turning Small Ideas into Big Stories 19

Book of Poetry: Finding Inspiration in Other Writing 21

Moths: Using a Word Babbler to Generate Poetry 23

Junk Box: The Essay as a Distillation of Memory 25

Ghosts: Finding Mystery in the Everyday 30

Lockbox: Unearthing Secrets 33

Tape Recorder: Strangers for Stories 36

Floorboards: Incorporating the Obvious 38

Photographs: Who Are You? 41

Sewing Box: Found Poems 44

Old Letters: Writing a Story in Letters 46

VHS Tapes: Stories of Obsolescence 48

Journal: Confessional Writing 50

Trophies: First, Best, Last, Worst 56

Artwork: Using the Visual as Inspiration 59

Dust: Erasure Poems 61

Unidentified Object: Crossing Genres 64

Stock Certificates: Writing Across Social Classes 66

Mirror: Parodies 68

Newspapers: Cut-ups 71

Broken Glass: Writing the Story 74

Books: Mistranslation 78

Metronome: Finding Your Rhythm 81

Wallpaper Remnants: Sestina and Villanelle 84

Patchwork Quilt: Piecing Together a Cento 88

Lincoln Logs: Building a Story 90

Wind Chimes: The Sound of Rhyme 92

Typewriter: Copying the Masters 94

Flashlight: Flash Fiction 96

Maps: Laying Out a Setting 99

Wrapping Paper: Describing What's Underneath 101

Carpentry 105

School Notebooks: Structuring a Story 107

Jigsaw Puzzles: Choose Your Own Adventure 109

Pencil Box: Cartooning 111

Rafters: Flipping an Outline 113

Boxing Gloves: Amping up Conflict 115

Accordion: Expanding Time 118

Old Board Games: Rewriting Perspective 121

Clothing: Characterization 124

Family Portraits: Developing a Character 126

Dried Flowers: How to Use All Your Senses 128

Macramé: Alternating Stories 130

Art Supplies: Adding Description with Metaphor 133

Insulation: Changing Point of View 135

Finishing Touches 139

Cleaning Supplies: Concision 141

Pipes: Reverse Outline to Strengthen Story 142

Mrs. Eyre: Reading Aloud 145

Glossary 147

More Books to Explore 148

Acknowledgments 151

Attributions 152

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