A Literary Collage

Everyone knows what collage is as an art form - a whole made of pieces that once belonged to other wholes. In other words, pieces that don't necessary belong are gathered on one page and made into a particular entity. Or, a particular entity arises from the bits&scraps.

A literary collage can be more than one thing. 

If you are in a group, let everyone write some sentence on a scrap of paper. Then, put the scraps randomly one under, over or next to each other, face down, and turn them to read the text. Allow room for small adjustments of forms, e.g. tenses or pronouns.

Or, choose a topic and write a few short pieces about and around it. They may differ in character, tone, and length. Then, put them together in one text. You can number the parts.

For a famous example, see Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird

Choose whether you'd rather go for poetry or prose.

Bothies

Lately, we've done an exam task based on the text about bothies. 

You're not sure what they are? Have a closer look at the pic above and/or visit the website 

www.mountainbothies.org.uk

The creative writing task, emerging naturally in these circumstances, is to write a text incorporating bothies.

You can choose btwn a story, a blog entry or an article. Feel free to do some research.

As always, I encourage you to share the piece of writing with me.