Day 105: [REDACTED]

It’s Writing Day!

Writing Prompt: Try blackout poetry.

Blackout poetry is composed by choosing a few words to keep and blacking out the rest of the page. Austin Kleon’s work is very much worth a read.

Blackout poetry is also a great way to get around writer’s block. The words are already there: all you have to do is decide what story you want to tell with them.

Grab a newspaper or magazine and a permanent marker, choose a likely-looking page, and follow this teacher’s guide to create your own blackout poem.

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Catch up on previous Writing days:

• Write a letter to someone

• What’s your lockdown language?

• Document your life right now

• Is there a fact you can’t forget?

• What’s your personal meme?

• What made you realize you were an adult?

• Make a mini-presentation about something interesting

• Who was your best teacher? Who was your worst?

• Have an AI do the writing for you

• How have you changed?

• Learn about word origins

• Design an ad from the future

• What’s the best advice you’ve been given?

• Write a one-star review of your dinner

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