Today I threw together a last-minute lesson plan that turned out to be an amazing thing. I made a worksheet which everyone filled out, that involved selecting a type of poetry, a word to include, and a tone. Then we put the sheets in a hat and passed them around randomly. The resulting poems were amazing.
Go see some of them on the club works page.
This weeks writing prompt is to just fill out another worksheet for next week.

Today we did something a little different for club, rather than just give you a prompt and hope that you do it, we did a prompt together as a class. Together we built a character, using a combination of personality flaws, skills, fears, setting, motivations, relationships, and dreams. We created Harrod, a 47 year old docksman of the 1800s with ironic taste in everything, especially lovers.
There wasn't much to take away from this lesson in terms of notes, but it was a helpful exercise. As writers, we must never underestimate group thinking as unoriginal, because in fact it can be very inspiring.
This week's writing prompt is: Write a story for today's character or create a character of your own.

So there wasn't club today and things have kind of been busy, by which I mean not all that busy but I found a great new show on Netflix. With the end of November coming all too quickly, and inspired by my own procrastination, I thought I would share with you all an amazing example of completing Nanowrimo despite personal obstacles.

Do You Believe in Lief After Loev  is a novel written by author Caden Lovelace, who completed it for Nanowrimo a year or so ago. And no, I did not type that wrong. Here's the cover:

Although described as fiction, the book is many things, and personally I would call it a memoir. It is a collection of personal thoughts and memories and hypotheticals and even song lyrics. So why is there two typos in the title? That's what makes it interesting: it was written without hitting backspace.

This includes every bit of keyboard smashing, copy pasting, misspelling, rephrasing, and regretable writing, Here is just a small excerpt:

As you can see the result is hilarious but powerful. I feel like we can all be inspired by this. It brings out a sincerity that most people are ashamed of. Lovelace was already a published author, but was brave enough to let the world see every bit of bad writing he could manage. Although I will say that this book is only really selling for its shock value so if you wrote your own I doubt typo novels would become the new young adult science fiction. Also apparently Lovelace starts to panic every time he gets an Amazon payment because it means someone is going to be reading his book.

This week's writing prompt is: Write a full page with pen or with no backspace, and give yourself only 20 minutes to do it. 

Hey guys, sorry about the late post, but expect another extra lesson tomorrow just on the blog, because there are no clubs then. Last Tuesday we talked about world building, and we discovered that while very interesting in practice, talking about world building without examples can be tiring. Even still, Julia and I found this article very interesting.
We also have arrived at the end of NaNoWriMo. Personally I did not reach my goal, but it did get me started on a project when I would not have otherwise done so. That's progress.
Keeping the theme together, this week's writing prompt is: