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Prompts Gone Wild
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Young Adult Prompts Gone Wild
By Aaron Barry
Step aside, John Green -- there's a new sheriff in town. Featuring over 120 prompts on all your favourite (and most hated) YA characters, and hilarious inversions of genre tropes, Young Adult Prompts Gone Wild has everything you need to reinvent the genre and start the Nu-YA revolution.
Use solo or as a party game!
Hollywood Prompts Gone Wild
By Aaron Barry
With these writing prompts, you’ll be able to redefine the cinematic experience in a time when streaming services threaten what we all love most: gathering in a dark room with strangers to escape the terrors of the real world by watching those of an imagined one.
Ready? Grab some popcorn and let’s go to the movies with Hollywood Prompts Gone Wild.
Meet the Creator of
Prompts Gone Wild
Aaron Barry
Looks-wise, Aaron Barry is a 6 at best, but as a writer, he's easily a 10. After years of training, he was finally able to reach a level of sarcasm hitherto unknown, and he now applies this to every form he touches, including free verse, haiku, short stories, articles, and books.
He could sit here and brag about how his work has been featured in nearly 100 literary magazines, how his haiku collection earned him an Honourable Mention in the 2023 Haiku Society of America Book Awards, and all that, but he would never do such a thing.
He lives in Port Moody, BC, Canada, but says Vancouver because it makes him sound fancy. Feel free to reach out to him directly at aaronteacher1@gmail.com or through the PGW Gmail account.
eggplants & teardrops: a haiku collection
By Aaron Barry
eggplants & teardrops: a haiku collection takes haiku into the 2020s, radically updating classic haiku conventions from the days of poetry greats like Matsuo Bashō and touching on contemporary subjects never before seen in the form.
Many of the poems in this collection have been featured across English-language haiku's most respected magazines, and now they've been artfully arranged for the first time and accompanied by thirty bold line art illustrations.
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Author's Commentary
When I was trying to come up with concept for the fourth book in the series, I ran through a few ideas, but nothing stuck. I wanted to do something no writing prompt author had yet tried (there are more of us than you'd expect), but it seemed as if most of the good ideas had already been taken.
I can't recall what it was, specifically, that gave me the idea to do an anime-themed collection -- maybe it was a meme a friend had sent me, or a manga I'd read -- but when it came to me, I knew it was a lock. Thus, the world's first anime-themed writing prompt book was born.
This prompt here represents the opening of the book, and a classic trope for the genre. I had fun researching more specific series, tropes, manga authors, etc. along the way, but this was one of the first prompts I wrote that felt "right," and it's still a favourite. Plus, the illustration Eunbyul Kwak did for it was mint.
Enjoy!
- Aaron
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