Insider Ink Splat:
august 2022
What’s Up At SYI this Month?
INK SPLAT
Megan e. freeman
In August’s issue of Ink Splat, we loved talking with author and poet Megan E. Freeman about her novel-in-verse work, Alone.
Here’s a peek:
“I’d been a poet my whole life, and it never even occurred to me to write this book in poetry until that moment, until I had already written it in prose. So I went back to the beginning, and I completely rewrote it. And as soon as I started writing it in poetry, I knew it was going to work.”
WRITING CHALLENGE
POETRY PROMPT
This month’s writing challenge is a poetry prompt. Think about a pet, an animal that you love, or a wild animal that you’re fascinated with. Do a brain dump and write everything down that comes to mind about that animal. Resist the urge to censor yourself. Then start pulling out the phrases and words that might want to be part of the poem, until you get to a place where it feels like an authentic expression of your love or curiosity about that animal. From there, you can experiment with switching the order or substituting words, distilling the language down to its most essential, and playing with formatting and style (spacing, stanzas, punctuation, capitalization, etc.) Keep playing and tweaking and adjusting until your poem satisfies you.
Submit your response HERE and you might be published on our website!
INKLINGS CONNECT
Summer Camps
Join us for a writing camp this summer. We can't wait to see what you create!
Keep your creativity flowing with our upcoming community events:
Advice from an Inkling:
Q: What changed when you looked at your story with the lens of maximizing the reader’s emotional experience as your revision focus?
A: When I looked at the story with this lens, it brought out so many possibilities to make my story better…
-Hera Agirbicean,
Inklings Book 2021
We want to read your work!
Don’t forget to submit your writing challenge, and you might be published on our blog!
P.S. We’re here for you! You can always email with ideas or questions: info@younginklings.org.
