Ruchira's Ramblings

NaPoWriMo Day 22. Prompt from  "Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that engages with another art form..." The trouble with this poem is exactly the trouble of conveying an idea through words. Music is spontaneous. Colours are visceral, but words are made up things that you have work to string together to create coherence. But I guess the poetry is in the trying. Thanks for reading.

So, finally, I've come up with the plan to keep this blog working. Writing work-outs! Yes! Over the sparsely productive years of my life as parts of various online writing communities, I have collected various writing prompts, exercizes to generate ideas, work-outs to break that damnable writers' block- all safely pasted, saved and filed away in an obscure folder on My Computer. Now, my plan is to use those exercizes to keep those blog-posts coming at respectable intervals. I might still come up with other posts, though, when the mood hits me, so watch out for those, but here's the first of the exercizes:  1. Think of adjectives that define your personality. For example, mine might be bold, cocky, friendly, straightforward and witty. With those adjectives in mind, write 350 words on your favourite activity, and infuse those personality traits into your words.  Right, I accept I'm cheating a bit here. This was written weeks ago and I just didn't post it. Becau...