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Exercise
1 - Generating Content
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Write an opening
line or two, or even just an image, and
then try using the following techniques
to amplify what you have written.
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The
conceit: Add a metaphor to your
opening line and then embellish upon
that metaphor so that its characteristics
are filled out like filigree.
- Simultaneity:
Write in a situation, scene, or image
that is occurring at the same time (though
not necessarily in the same place) as
your opening lines are occurring.
- Inner correspondences:
After your opening lines, salt in repetitions,
variations, or enhancements of the most
significant images, tropes, or actions
from your opening lines.
- Slant imagery:
After your opening lines, set down a series
of associated images or tropes that have
similar, though slightly varied, characteristics
and attributes of your opening content.
- Story within
a story: After your opening lines,
segue to an anecdote or small story from
another time and place that somehow parallels,
deepens, and throws light upon the meaning
of the opening lines.
- Correspondence
in setting: Start out indirectly writing
a poem about your state of being by describing,
with a selective eye, details from an
urban, suburban, or rural place, so that
the images you choose are representative
of your inner emotional, psychological
or spiritual state.
- Metaphorical
or symbolic correspondence: Choose
an animal or metaphor that most closely
resembles your current state of well-being.
Then select some actions or characteristics
of the animal, its quality of life, or
images of its habitations that feel appropriate
and use them to indirectly address your
situation.
- Flashback and
flashforward: After your opening few
lines, use a scene from the past or from
the future to exemplify some relationship
to what you are writing about in the present.
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