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NYWC Weekly Writing Prompt: Caught in a Storm
Storm clouds over NYC. Photo credit: flickr.com Summer in New York City means not only ridiculous heat and humidity but also epic thunderstorms. There is always a build up to the storm. First, the sky...
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NYWC Weekly Writing Prompt: High-speed Chase
By Juan G. Rodriguez In film there is nothing quite like a magnificently tense car-chase scene through the streets of a swarming and congested metropolitan area. The driver is in sync with the...
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NYWC Weekly Writing Prompt
Contributed by Michael Charboneau At the end of my semester abroad in Granada, Spain, I was eager to return to New York. On the way home from the airport, I craned my neck out the windows of my cab to...
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NYWC Weekly Writing Prompt: What if?
By Juan G. Rodriguez As a kid one of my favorite Marvel comic books was the What If series. The comic features an alternative situation to the one in the ongoing mainstream continuity of Marvel comics,...
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NYWC Weekly Writing Prompt
By Michael Charboneau Hot dogs sizzle on backyard grills; the stars and stripes drape themselves over every available surface, and fireworks—amateur and professional—light up the sky at all hours of...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: Feelin’ Groovy
Contributed by Michael Charboneau Aaaah, New York in the summertime: the smell of rotting garbage baking in the hot sun, humid air slapping you in the face like a wet blanket, and your apartment...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: Metamorphosis
Contributed by Michael Charboneau Don’t you hate it when you wake up in the morning to find six cockroach legs dangling out from under your sheets? Isn’t it awful when you find out that those six legs...
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Writing Prompt: Ekphrastic odes to our stuff
Contributed by Michael Charboneau Today I had an important realization: I’m not the President of the United States, but in a moment of Matrix-like clarity, I thought about all the tools and machines...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: On my radio
Contributed by Michael Charboneau Labor Day weekend may have come and gone, but listen closely to the songs blaring out of car radios, and you’ll swear that summer is still in full swing. This summer,...
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Writing Prompt: Social media memiors & autobiographies
Contributed by Michael Charboneau “Each of us must possess a created version of the past,” writes Patricia Hampl in I Could Tell You A Story: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, a book that explores memoir...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: Journeys to Jazzsoon
While nosing around the Internet the other night, I stumbled on this video from The Atlantic. It’s a short profile of a man named Jazzsoon, a self-styled “Brooklyn hustler.” He collects everything from...
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Writing Prompt: Your alter ego
Contributed by Michael Charboneau You are what you tweet. That’s probably what many people would think, at least. In one of my classes this semester, I was tasked with writing a paper about how people...
View ArticleWriting Prompt: Recycle A newspaper poem
Armed with only a few black markers, Austin Kleon goes hunting for poetry. His target: the latest issue of the NY Times, and I’m not talking about some insert in the culture section. Every article on...
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