Prompt Book: Experiments for Writing Poetry and Fiction

To offer a prompt is to encourage someone to take action. The prompts in this book are meant to do just that—inspire something new. They are not meant to curtail or restrict the writing experience; they are more like gestures toward beginning a writing experience. Perhaps a writer will become more inventive by working through parts of this book. Writer’s block is an excuse, a misunderstanding; between the mind, the body, the world and the word. In fact, there are infinite possibilities—