Fall Writing Exercise Series #37 Title Mania Plus Crooning 06


Title Mania Plus Crooning 06

For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge use the additional exercise of five random constraints.

  1. One Last Dropkick
  2. Wee-Wee-Wee All the Way Home
  3. Turnbuckle 
  4. Before Breakfast 
  5. Like a Parasol Sailing in the Wind

Bonus Exercise: 5 Random Constraints
(I recommend picking any required words or lines before writing with a little surplus for options, but with your chosen title in mind)
  1. Your last sentence must include a list of three items.
  2. You must include at least six words which begin with the letter combination "At".
  3. You must include one sentence (or at least 7 consecutive words) from the wonderful anaphoric poem "I Wake at Four & Drive to the Mountains" by Marcus Myers in Aquifer, the Florida Review's online component.
  4. You must include one sentence that describes a scene including some sort of plastic item that is very out of place.
  5. You must describe something being "like a mouth full of sand" or something very similar.


If you'd like some background music to write to, try the greatest hits of crooner Paul Anka.