Calling all red Ravine writers and readers!
Today we’re over at the online poetry gathering place that is Read Write Poem. These creative folks are known for their love of poetry and collaboration.
Every Wednesday at midnight they publish a new Read Write Prompt. (What they call a prompt, we call a topic. You say tomato, I say tomahtoe.) Poets then make magic with the topic, and anyone who has a blog site can drop a link to said magic in the Comments section of the Read Write Poem post. Cool, huh?
This week we are providing the topic, and it happens to be one of our favorites. Before we could throw it out there, though, we had to explain why Writing Practice isn’t just about the writing. So please head over there; you’ll find the story of how QuoinMonkey and I met and how red Ravine came to be. (You’ll also at last see photos of the two of us. If you peer really hard into QM’s gorgeous shots of Taos. Unless those are the ghosts of Mabel and Tony that you’re seeing. We understand there is a resemblance.)
The best part? You, too, are invited to write on the topic, which you can get by clicking HERE. If you have a blog site, post your work and provide a link (at Read Write Poem and here). If you don’t have a blog and what you write isn’t too long, go ahead and reproduce it in Comments on this post.
Many thanks to everyone at Read Write Poem!
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I’m so happy your post is up at RWP! Your approach to writing and to exploration of self keeps me coming back to red Ravine again and again.
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As are we. Thanks, Christine. I’m so impressed by the RWP web site. I just left a comment there, too, about my curiosity regarding the revision process. I hope we gain insights in to how different people write and what happens when they experiment with Writing Practice.
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Christine, my thanks as well. I love how both of our sites are trying to promote community and different forms of staying creatively stimulated. It’s rewarding work.
Like ybonesy, I’m interested in the revision process, too. And I left a comment also about when a person considers themselves a poet — when they feel they can call themselves a poet. There’s a great response from lirone. I’m still thinking about it.
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lirone frm Words that Sing wrote a poem based on the Writing Practice topic, What’s in front of me? Here is the LINK, and what’s so great about it is she starts with the finished poem, then shares the raw Writing Practice below, and then even goes on to say what she got out of the WP and how that led her to the poem. So, a really great post for both the finished work and the process details.
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