http://www.inkberry.org Writing exercises from Inkberry.org en-us http://www.inkberry.org/exercises/166.html <p>For poets: Choose a favorite book of poems. Open to a random page and copy the first line of the poem you find there. (Alternately, if it has a first-line index, flip to the first-line index and choose a random one.) Write a new poem beginning with the line you copied, and title it &#8220;Poem beginning with a line by&#8230;&#8221;</p> <p>For prose writers: Choose a favorite prose book. Open to a random page and copy the first full sentence you find there. Write for thirty minutes either in response to, or inspired by, that line. Title your exercise &#8220;Ruminations on a line by&#8230;&#8221;</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/exercises/166.html">[read more]</a>