{"id":105944,"date":"2022-06-24T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=105944"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:32:57","slug":"random-prompt-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/random-prompt-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Prompt Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just used the Random Prompt button and this came up:<br \/>\nFrom the 2015 Poetry Marathon<br \/>\nPrompt for Hour Nine<br \/>\nSet a timer. Write whatever comes in to your head for 5 minutes as fast as you can. Don\u2019t delete anything you type, and don\u2019t bother to spell check. It is all about getting the words down on the paper.<\/p>\n<p>After the 5 minutes are up start editing what you have. Feel free to cut and add material as needed. Try to spend at least 15 minutes, if not longer, editing the piece.<\/p>\n<p>I love how this prompt gives us space to create, such a big part of the Poetry Marathon, but how it also reminds us that editing is an equal part of the process. Though we have little time during the contest, I do try to edit each poem every hour before pressing send (if time allows) and then I return to edit my work before submitting to the anthology. During the hour, when finished a poem, I often stretch, get some fresh air, refill my water or brew some tea and then return to the piece I just wrote and change the font and colour so that it looks different on the page. It is amazing what I notice that I didn&#8217;t see before, so I can make the poem stronger!<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetry-collage3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetry-collage3-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poetry-collage3.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just used the Random Prompt button and this came up: From the 2015 Poetry Marathon Prompt for Hour Nine Set a timer. Write whatever comes in to your head for 5 minutes as fast as you can. Don\u2019t delete anything you type, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105952,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105944\/revisions\/105952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}