2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 3
For the 2022 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. Day 3 may be a little misguided.
Poets who make it through day three are the most likely to make it through the entire month. So get writing!
For today's prompt, write a misguided poem. The poem could be about a misguided person. Or it could be narrated by a misguided person. Or reveal a bad idea. Or well, whichever misguided direction you want to take it.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Misguided Poem:
“It Made Sense at the Time”
But now
looking up at the clouds
on my back
in the cold
feeling pain throughout my body
I'm pretty sure
ice skating is not
what I should be doing
with my life.
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.
