NPR’s Scott Simon test drove no. 60 Werewolfbut only the first line of the prompt was presented, so here's the whole juicy thing...along with two other prompts presented in that plump five minutes!
excerpts, 05/02/26
no. 60 werewolf
Write from the point of view of a nonhuman animal. Question and contemplate narrative, the senses as we know them through language, language itself, linear time, reason, spatial logics, dreams, desire, psychology, human violence.
This morning on Weekend Edition, Scott Simon interviewed Lucy Ives about three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing). Takeaways: play, experiment, surprise, self-discovery, prompts as poems or little pieces of philosophy, writing while walking, dog or hedgehog—who knows! Listen to the interview here. PDF with prompt here. Also, from the NPR interview:
no. 1 short-term memory
Walk to a place where you can sit awhile undisturbed.
Now write a detailed account of how you got there.
The shorter the trip, the longer the account should be.
no. 2 circular novel
Tell the story of a journey you once took to a place where you never arrived.
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And find selections of more prompts at The Paris Review, Graywolf Lab, LitHub, and Kismet!
see also
Books
three six five: prompts, acts, divinations(an inexhaustible compendium for writing)with drawings by Nick Mauss
Books
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use WordsA Madeline Gins ReaderEdited by Lucy Ives
Features
Feminist Poetics of the ArchiveA Forum at Tupelo QuarterlyKarla Kelsey, curator
Events
Books and Artists' Books and a new siglio Book in the Berkshires!One April weekend, two events, and multitudinous experiences to be had close to (siglio’s) homeSaturday, April 11 in Turners Falls and Sunday, April 12 in Williamstown, both in Massachusetts
✼ ex libris:
We tried. We really tried. A 1600+ page cautionary tale bearing witness to Trump’s first term was insufficient caution, it seems. If it was “a heat map of proto-fascism,” now we’re no more proto.
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