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WordWeaver Writing Prompt

WordWeaver is a creative writing gizmo that features 12 famous writers. Hover over their image and 5 random words from their writings will appear. Take one word from each author and construct a poem or story from this group of words.

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

hour
life
nightgown
serious
sidewalks

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

stench
dawn
lightning
sunflowers
cannulae

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

battle
last
silk
swing
tell

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt

alone
bed
fabulous
gray
mortality

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

bedroom
mass
say
suggestion
vicissitudes

Matsuo Bashō

Matsuo Bashō

rest
rain
want
old
pond

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

cook
pumpkin
buttonhole
Caribbean
ancient

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

daring
died
god
hands
passes

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

absurd
classes
friends
intolerable
sins

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

costuming
distrust
doubt
movement
veiled

Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z Brite

beautiful
hectic
lurid
oyster
sweet

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

hopeless
shove
songs
used
waste