Twist a Cliché
Start with a cliché such as ‘raining cats and dogs’ and write a poem that twists it in a way.
- This is a useful writing exercise that I first found in Write Poetry And Get It Published by Matthew Sweeney and John Hartley Williams.
- This exercise was the start of this poem I wrote.
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Writing Exercises
Here’s some writing exercises to start getting the juices flowing. A bit more involved than [[Prompts]] , these generally have...