Thank you for joining us in The Writer’s Playground series!
Here we run through writing games to spark imagination and sharpen your craft.
Today’s Exercise is
Blackout Poetry
- Objective: To find poetry in existing text and create striking visual and verbal images.
- How to Play:
- Each person gets a page of text from an old book, newspaper, or magazine and a dark marker.
- They scan the page for anchor words or phrases that catch their eye.
- They then “black out” the rest of the text with the marker, leaving only their chosen words visible. The remaining words form a poem.
- Best for: Overcoming the fear of the blank page, developing an eye for evocative language.
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