2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 21
For the 2024 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 21 is to write a rejecting advice poem.
And just like that, we're already three weeks into this challenge. Let's keep at it!
For today’s prompt, write a rejecting advice poem. If you remember, it was only two weeks ago that we were writing advice poems on Day 6. For this prompt, take it the other way. Reject advice, turn advice on its head, even if that means following advice for once (you know, if you're the contrary sort).
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 Rejecting Advice Poem:
“They Told Me,” by Robert Lee Brewer
They told me it wouldn't work,
but I thought, "What do they know?"
They warned me it would hurt,
but I thought, "Who says so?"
And after it didn't work,
they told me, "What do you know?"
And now that I've been hurt,
they tell me, "We told you so."
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.
