Thanks for trying the Sharpie blackout technique (scientific terminology there) in class. Please share one of your blackout text pieces as a COMMENT on this post. You could type the text you left on the page as a sentence or poem or story. You could also take a picture with your phone and just post your work that way.
I'm thinking you could do this same technique with any printed material containing a good chunk of text to work with. I also think you could be inspired to write all sorts of other pieces by using your blacked out piece as a starting point.
You could visit Austin Kleon's website to see what others have come up with and even post your own work there if you're up for it.
If you'd like to, you can also post some of the writing you came up with using the words and phrases cut from magazines--the poem you pieced together with the words you cut or maybe the story you came up with using the lines I cut out. You could post a picture of your poem. Just if you have time and want to add to your collection...all optional.
In the living room the wood burning stove finds a huge box along a bin.
ReplyDeleteHer desire pulled her towards her future.
ReplyDeleteLove is
ReplyDeletenothing more
than a pleasant warmth
I am alone
ReplyDeleteI travel alone
you will run off,
You've done this before
I am alone.
Eagerly the voice replied, "I have found him, the one we have been waiting for."
ReplyDeleteShe took like she always did / it was her acknowledging she hadn't wanted it that way
ReplyDeleteBroken. Stong. Healed.
ReplyDeleteLife isn't a game, fighting to be free.
The sky changed.
ReplyDeleteEverything
gone,
gone,
gone.
Feel power
ReplyDeleteknow strength
always love
think of the beauty, star of wonder
care for everybody
be golden
This is a bad idea, this bizarre ability to trust people. Especially the creepy old people. Into the tunnels, what might be lurking? The secret museum people having something nobody else knew. We'll find out. He glanced up at the sky looming around them, cold and distant.
ReplyDeleteDid your mom tell you that the National Eye Institute found that food or supplements may cause macular degeneration?
ReplyDeleteMalachi is not completely dead. But that is impossible he shouted as he comes with the dagger. He shall try the noose.
ReplyDeleteDreaming changed the only ones that clung to it.
ReplyDeleteLike needles piercing my eye. Four swords in the shade of grey. Fading to black.
ReplyDeleteA night of heartbreak
ReplyDeleteI've been hurt, many times.
Forget his name, kiss the past away, fades away.
Wanna get a little lost till I don't remember.
Wanna get a little lost in the music, till his memory fades away.
You might have to fake it at first.
The, all of a sudden it hits you and you think about everything youre going through.
Till I don't remember.
Halt and be terminated. The voice muttered right behind you.
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