{"id":2457,"date":"2010-10-08T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:32:23","slug":"weekly-prompt-complicating-narrative-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/weekly-prompt-complicating-narrative-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Prompt: Complicating Narrative Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Draft a traditional narrative poem that describes an event or experience from real life.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t need to be derived from your own life\u2014something from the news, or a book you\u2019ve read is fine.\u00a0 Focus on using detail and description to <em>tell a story<\/em>, accurately and with as much emotional clarity as possible.\u00a0 Feel free to experiment with sound, image, and\/or metaphor if it helps you better access the \u201ctruth\u201d of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Return to your draft, taking into consideration how you might structure your narrative in a way that adds layers of meaning.\u00a0 You may need to experiment with several options, but some ideas to consider are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>locate a companion text (or write another piece) that you can weave into the narrative of your draft in such a way that generates and complicates meaning<\/li>\n<li>develop a second poem that describe a corollary event to the first, then weave the two together<\/li>\n<li>break the poem into sections, each narrated from a different point of view<\/li>\n<li>extract a few lyrical details from your draft and develop a refrain, to be repeated throughout the poem as a force of both unity and change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spend some time working and reworking your poem, but give it the freedom to become an entirely different piece.\u00a0 Also keep in mind that the objective of complicating structure is to deepen\/layer meaning, and that these new meanings may not emerge until midway through the (re)structuring process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft a traditional narrative poem that describes an event or experience from real life.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t need to be derived from your own life\u2014something from the news, or a book you\u2019ve read is fine.\u00a0 Focus on using detail and description to tell a story, accurately and with as much emotional clarity as possible.\u00a0 Feel free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[72,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}