NaPoWriMo '16 Week 3 Prompts

Apr 17, 201613 min read

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Published: Apr 17, 2016

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Please note! Daghrgenzeen has been so gracious as to allow us to use her chat as a place for NaPo-ers(is that a thing?) to meet up and chat! Feel free to go in whenever you need it. I will TRY to be in there, and maybe even schedule a day event (I would like that but I have to see how time allows...I have finals so it's tricky Lol). But don't wait on me, if you want to gather some people and go in to do your own event, or just to bounce ideas off each other, feel free. We have the green light on that. Thank you Daghrgenzeen

The chat is: chat.deviantart.com/chat/TheLo… She has it all snazzy in there

Here's a message from her as well:

There's a privclass for you guys, and you can promote others to the privclass. <---

So please, feel free to use this as a resource this month!

Hello all! We are past the half-way mark, so here are your prompts for the next week

How are you guys making out? It's at this point that many people find their energy and inspirations running dry. Or maybe you're like me, who have school commitments taking up a lot of their time. Either way, this is where you have to take a deep breathe and power through. You're that much closer to the finish line. Don't worry if you miss some days or you started late. Now isn't the time for stress, it's the time to create.

Also, (as always) we're still accepting prize donations for the winner's pool! Anything from points, comments, llamas, features, etc. are very welcome, so send a note over to Medoriko or NaPoWriMo if you'd like to donate.

Here is our prize list so far:

Feature for the winners --LiliWrites
Llamas and feature to all winners -- peaseblossoms
llamas, features from Poetic-State-Of-Mind, personal features for winners--brodskales
Personal Feature for winners, points, either a cross stitch or perler bead creation (winner will be chosen randomly) --Medoriko
Feature from TheWritersMeow and TandemFeatures --Medoriko
A feature in Author of the Day(for 7 randomly chosen winners) from DailyLitRecognition --Medoriko
Feature for the winners --LadyLincoln
500 points(added to the donation pool) and llamas -- ArthurTheBraveOne
Weekly feature -- DeiSophia
Features and a drawing/painter for a random winner--Livelovemaria
Llamas--AspiredWriter

So far our points prize pool stands at:
1500
Thank you to: Thelunarwriter ArthurTheBraveOne and KiriHearts for your donations.

I have also donated 800 points to the pool to get it to 1500, to keep it interesting.

Now onto the prompts!

Week 3 Prompts

Words/Quotes

Visceral -adj: crude, anatomically graphic

Ailurophile: n- A cat-lover.
Beleaguer: v- To exhaust with attacks
Brood: v- To think alone
Vestigial: adj- In trace amounts.
Ratatouille: n- A spicy French stew.
Elision: v- Dropping a sound or syllable in a word
Pastiche: n- An art work combining materials from various sources.
Cynosure: n- A focal point of admiration.
Ingénue : n- A naïve young woman.
Halcyon: adj- Happy, sunny, care-free.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
~F. VI de la Rochefoucault

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~Golda Meir

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore

But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
~Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
~Isaac Asimov

Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.
~Author Unknown

Prompts

1) Write down the first sight, sound, smell, and sensation you experienced on waking up today. Pick the one you’re most drawn to, and write. (For a bigger challenge, pick the one you’re least drawn to.)

2) You have the power to enact a single law. What would it be?

3) Have you ever had a random encounter or fleeting moment with a stranger that stuck with you?

4) Pick a letter, any letter. Now, write a poem in which every line starts with that letter.

5) Take a quote from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your piece. Now, write!

A little Prompty Goodness...Poetry has its own National Month dedicated to it! The month of APRIL!
They even have a funny little acronym for it, NaPoWriMo. Those of us who write prose recognize this a little... Hmmm... sounds like NaNoWriMo. I am sure that is completely coincidental and the two have nothing to do with one another.

Well this is to get all of you in the mood to write some POETRY!
Check out this Journal if you would like to participate in a contest!
Prompt Chaos Begins!
Here is my list, in all of its Prompt-y goodness!
In my list of prompts should you choose to complete them,
you will learn about many different types of poetry.
All links will take you to Young Writers' Free Poetry Glossary that will explain each type of poetry so even a child can understand it!
30 days of
(Thank you to Amarantheans for sending this list of prompts to us)

Artwork/Photography

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Music:

If these prompts don't quite do it for ya, check it:

the official NaPoWriMo website post daily prompts.

I'll post the prompts for the FINAL week on the 24th.