Each week we’ll post a “pitch,” a writing prompt designed to grant maximum freedom for those who respond. Send what your write to creativewriting@ship.edu, with the subject line “Weekly Writing: Earshot,” and we’ll compile it into a sample of campus writing to publish around the end of each month.
EARSHOT
In a single day, we might overhear hundreds of conversations. The snippets of conversations of those who are walking past you, and who sits behind you in the cafe. The collective murmur of the words you hear will create the sense of world as you understand it, will reveal the worldview through the overheard.
Sit in a public place. Write down the things that you hear that strike you as strange. Do it several times, in different areas, or the same, just write everything down. Then, put them all together and do some editorial playing. Let these be nearly nonsensical, let them…
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