Prompt from James Joyce
Joyce is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, Ulysses (1922) challenged the traditional rules of style and form, and changed the landscape of modern literature.
#001 - Interior monologue: Yourself
The interior monologue is the thought process of a character written from their perspective. A method of writing an interior monologue is through "stream of consciousness," allowing any conscious thought that comes to mind to be written down. In stream-of-consciousness mode, sentence structure and style need not be considered during the process of writing.
Write an interior monologue using stream of consciousness from your own perspective (i.e., write down the flow of your own conscious thoughts.) You might like to use Joyce's method of writing without punctuation, with each thought a continuation of the last, until you reach the end of the page.
#002 - Finnegans Wake
In Finnegans Wake Joyce uses an incredible amount of wordplay. He enjoyed creating portmanteau words - a single word with two meanings. The word derives from the English term "portmanteau luggage" - a piece of luggage with two compartments. An example of a portmanteau from Finnegans Wake is "kissmiss" : both an alternative spelling for "Christmas" and something that may occur under the mistletoe.
Try to come up with some portmanteaus of your own.
#003 - Family members
Pick members of your family and write a description of them using their age as your wordcount (e.g., Nan, 71, Dad, 48, your niece, Lucy, 5). Could you think of a single word to describe your one-year-old baby nephew? Mix up the descriptions so that your paragraph has varying sentence lengths. Mixing up short and long sentences helps to structure prose and varies the pace.