Findings

For next time, write a proem imitating the style of Harper's Magazine's "Findings" section (link below).
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/0082730

It's a random collection of facts but feel free to make up your own.  See you Thursday at 7.

Bodice the Ripper

For next time, we are writing a proem (no more than a half page) in the style of a bodice ripper/harlequin romance.  It's an exercise in writing badly in the hopes of writing goodly er, uh, better.  Here are a few rules:


one: nothing graphic or rather pornographic, as we are all familiar with anatomy.


two: you must use the following words -- plant, button, trick, fly.


three: you must commit to the basic harlequin conventions, whatever those may be to you, keeping in mind rules one and two.


four: have fun.  


Remember we'll meet the second Thursday of May--that is May 13, not this upcoming week.  See you then at 7.