FEBRUARY 2026 - Nabokov
Prompt #018
Wordplay
Vladimir Nabokov is known for the playfulness of his language. Nabokov takes words, pulls them apart, twists them, and makes something new.
Exercise: Describe something in an unusual way by forming an unexpected association.
Prompt #019
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds in a series of words creates rhythm and the visual similarity of the words affects the focus of the reader.
Exercise: Write down some words using alliteration. Start off following James Joyce's lead and then continue from there.
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." Joyce
soul swooned slowly snow falling faintly faintly falling
Prompt #020
Unusual Comparisons
Forming similes by making unusual comparisons can enlighten an image and last in the memory.
Exercise: Write some similes creating an unusual comparison between two things.