2014 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 28
Four weeks in and only three days left. Boy, time flies! For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) News,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new…
Four weeks in and only three days left. Boy, time flies!
For today's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) News," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write the poem. Possible titles include: "Good News," "Bad News," "Daily News," and "Old News."
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Here's my attempt at a Blank News poem:
"No News Is Good News"
Whether it's the weather or politics
or the kid down the street, no news
should be good news, right? Only
the news is usually happening
well before it is reported--so breaking
news (of the bad variety) doesn't
really happen when it seems to
happen. Rather, it's already happened,
and the news isn't a good or bad
thing really but an opportunity to do
better or a chance to remember
that things continue to happen.
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He pays attention to the news, sure, but it rarely ever has a direct impact on his life--outside of having something (or someone) to talk about.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
