With Writing Challenge, you will brainstorm new and fresh ideas and embrace freewriting in the funniest way ever. Get new prompts to start writing your story with just a touch on your screen.
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With Writing Challenge, you will brainstorm new and fresh ideas and embrace freewriting in the funniest way ever. Get new prompts to start writing your story with just a touch on your screen.
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This January, I decided to write a poem a day for a month (à la NaPoWriMo) with a couple of friends. I thought of this as exercise—something I didn’t want to do but knew would be good for me. And like exercise, I wanted instant gratification and endorphins. Instead, I experienced daily writing as another way to approach myself, both the good and bad. Some thoughts from the month: Most days are unspectacular, but on the worst days, nothing is in my fingers. Or in my brain. I don’t like anything I’ve written, so I repeatedly type and backspace the way I tell my students not to do during in-class writing activities. I click through old poems nostalgically as if to harness the magic of a moment when something sprang forth out of nothing. I feel like I’ll never write something good again. It’s as if negative self-talk itself will produce the poem. On other days, a poem appears in my mind like a gift. Some lines come to me when I don’t expect it (which, in the moment, I see as magical rather than the result of practice). I sit down in Nordstrom Rack and type on my phone instead of finding new sneakers like I’d been planning to. By the time I get out, it’s dark and I’m late for dinner. In these moments, I feel most like a writer. But isn’t being a writer both of these extremes, and the more boring in-between? A lot of content is needed, so whatever is around me goes in a poem. I look outside my apartment window and see trees, and yes, birds. I understand more deeply why trees and birds are such favorite topics. My husband, a teacher, comes home to tell me a student asked what was wrong with his eyes. Wolf’s eyes, the second grader had said. This also goes in a poem, but I think the story of the student is better. For a few years, I’d written about what blue eyes meant to me, the desire for blue eyes, the way they pierced me as a child not used to them, and this student had described them in the shortest phrase. This, too, is a gift. I worry the most when I wake up in the middle of the night, and, to avoid anxiety—about the class I teach, what I said or didn’t say to someone I wanted to impress, that I worry about impressing at all—I think of poems and start writing in my head. My brain gets busy. This is the opposite of counting sheep or deep breaths. On one hand, the poem is a repository for anxious thoughts, and on the other, a diversion from them. My therapist asks if I’ve ever wanted to speak up but felt I couldn’t—not that I chose not to for my own reasons. My answer is a hard yes. She says it’s good that I have an outlet in writing. I haven’t thought of poetry as an outlet for years and linger over the phrasing. Later, I realize it’s because I’ve associated outlets with the outpouring of emotion—something that must be let out, that must leave the body in whatever way possible—and therefore a contradiction to craft. The careful making of something, the work of a poet. But the more I think about it, the more I don’t think outlet and craft have to conflict. The poem is, in one sense, how I retroactively speak up for the times I couldn’t, like at the oral surgeon’s office experiencing microaggressions. It’s the Yelp review I’d always planned to write. When the month is over, I’m spent. I celebrate with boba from the newly-opened Kung Fu Tea a mile away. I haven’t taken stock of the revision ahead of me yet, the inevitable cutting and throwing away—that I can’t just throw my poems up into the air and watch them fall into place, a manuscript. Right now, the sugar and treating myself are enough like endorphins.
-Lisa LowPricing |
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I think this app is awesome! | Waste of money.. |
It gives you ideas during writers block and helps to change the topic of your writing every so often | Can't write ON the app |
I think it's a essential writing tool and very necessary for writers. | WHEN THE PHONE LOCKS OR INACTIVE ALL THE PROGRESS IS DELETED. |
Pretty good, just keep adding content. Really good app, but maybe it would be better if you made each step semi-relate to one another, so you don't have a COMPLETELY random story. But other then that, just keep updating with new content, and it'll be .
- LoyalWOLFpAcK
Not able to use it as a slide over with iOS 11 on ipad This app would be wonderful if it could be a small part of the screen while you write on Word, Note, or whatever. Instead it has two settings, on and off. It will not split a screen or work in slide over. Instead of being able to keep one eye on it while I write, I need to check back to it or use two devices. Am I missing something?
- Solitaire123xyz
Upgrade I think it should save where we left off in our steps. I mean I was going! And then BAM!!! I gotta do something. Turned off my phone and when I came back, my steps were gone.
- Tete_xoxo
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