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Poetry Playground Writing Prompt #18
One hundred words
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It is time for another Poetry Playground Prompt! After last week’s prompt which saw a lot of wise responses, this week we are using a form, of sorts.
Since January I have been writing a Drabble a day over at Fiction Shorts with Nancy Oglesby, Randy Pulley and Julia A. Keirns, among others.
A drabble is a short fiction story that is exactly 100 words long. It cannot be 99 words, or 101 words. It has to be 100 words exactly.
It is a great discipline to help with editing and being succinct.
Some drabblers occasionally choose to write poems. Our very own writer, Harry Hogg, offers one fairly often. Ludiane de Brocéliande wrote a brilliant one the other day.
This week, I invite you to write a poem of exactly 100 words, that tells a story.
For the purpose of this prompt, the poem does not need to be fictional, but it might be more fun to use your imagination and make something up.
As poets, we often focus on syllables. It will be interesting to get an exact word count and to see how people choose…
