2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt is to write a Protagonist and/or Antagonist Poem.
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt is to write a Protagonist and/or Antagonist Poem.
Today is our third Two-for-Tuesday prompt day. Pick one prompt for your poem today, or write a poem for each prompt, or write one poem that works with both. Today's prompts are:
- Write a protagonist poem, and/or...
- Write an antagonist poem.
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Here’s my attempt at a Protagonist and/or Antagonist Poem:
“Story Bombing”
Sometimes I'm the good guy
except when I'm bad or a secondary
character or even an extra person
hiding in the background unaware
there's a story happening
somewhere else or that I have
nothing to do with the main
narrative arc and that the best
I could hope for is a sort
of literary photo bomb.
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.
