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Humainologie creative dialogue team practice on Kurt Vonnegut Day November 11

  • Arthur Clark
  • Nov 5, 2020
  • 1 min read

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” - Kurt Vonnegut

We meet again on Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday, November 11, for our Wednesday creative dialogue team practice. It’s also been called Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and so on, but I’ll suggest we celebrate Kurt Vonnegut Day on November 11 each year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

I’ll also invite you to write a very short story each year to celebrate that day. Basically, Kurt Vonnegut Day in our creative dialogue network will remind us to practice our story-writing skills. Here is a short video that gives you Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on how to write a short story

and here is a somewhat longer video of his presentation on the shape of stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

My good question for our next creative dialogue team practice: Can you write a short story (could be less than 100 words) and tell us about your story on Wednesday?

Here’s a poem I wrote about my recent experience at Folk Tree Lodge when Sasona and I invented a new approach to writing a poem.

A funny thing happened

on the way to my poem

last Sunday. Writer’s block.

It wasn’t that funny

at the time. Annoying really.

But it was good luck. With Sasona’s help

I unlocked the lock.

We invented a way past writer’s block

for poets. You just get some good

adjectives and some good

nouns and put them together

in a poem with a theme

from a good quote.

That’s it. That’s all we wrote.

Shinobu will send me the Zoom link for our team practice, and I’ll be back in touch after I’ve received it from her.

Just imagine!

Arthur

 
 
 

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