Attendance Cards
I have taken Lynda Barry's Writing the Unthinkable class twice. One of her exercises is the daily attendance card. The assignment is to Draw Yourself As (fill in the blank) on a 3 x 5 index card for the duration of one song. In an online community, several of her students (including me) took turns providing writing prompts with an accompanying song for one week. We passed the torch around like this for several months. Here are most of the results.
Roll over image for the prompt.
at any time before your inception
a werewolf
in a protest
dancing in a tropical place
with something that you treasure
in group therapy with your family of orign with your spirit animal as therapist
your teenage self
a spirit haunting a waterway
throwing a tantrum
sometime ago when you had a dream
at any time before your inception
Smoke on the Water
a sea creature
a character in a book
on Monday morning
the mum of three living off the leavings
gangnam style
very inconveniently in lust with somebody
loving it all warts and all
doing something out of love
yourself or someone lingering
unexpectedly and inconveniently knocked up
your origin story
doing a hobby you gave up
hitchhiking
believing in something you later questioned, rejected or found to be untrue
groovin' on a Sunday afternoon
a goth
throwing a tantrum
in an uptown (or downtown or any kind of) funk
Frida Kahlo
as a flower surrounded by flowers
lost in a magical forest
a fertility goddess
yourself and your spirit animal dressing up as each other
surviving a natural disaster
a demon
with your most eccentric relative
as your favorite cooking utensil
in the cosmos
on the commute from hell
working in a circus (human or animal)
when you loved (or at least liked) someone, but it embarassed you to walk down the street with him
at church whatever that is to you
your younger self in celebration
as a fruit doing whatever the music tells you to
turning into some kind of candy
melting
just hanging out as a buffalo
shacking up
an imaginary birthday cake
your favorite fruit baked into a confection of your desire
a bird doing your birdy thing
a young superhero after a defeat
Backwoods Barbie
bedeviled by disgust
singing out an being free
spirit animal in a bad relationship
in the frying pan
Atomic dog