Need advice on writing assignment (due in a month)

[00ts]

I have a lot of creative freedom with a topic I'm working on but am unsure about using it. I need to write around a thousand words, so my safest bet would probably be to use an essay module, but that seems so ordinary. I really wanted to try writing it as a poem, but I don't know if I could make such a lengthy and satisfying one. I'm not the most experienced when it comes to even prose. Is there anyone who can offer me some advice?

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[lunabee34]

Is it an assignment for school? If so, what are the parameters of the assignment?

If you want to think about writing a poem, it might be helpful to think of writing in terms of drabbles. People outside of fandom tend to be unfamiliar with that form. A set of ten drabbles looks like a prose poem. So rather than thinking of 1000 words of poem, you can think about breaking whatever you're writing into ten discrete parts and writing a very short bit about each.

[serria]

I get the feeling that when an assignment becomes too open to different possibilities, it's a lot more difficult to settle down on one idea! I like the drabble idea - maybe ten hundred-word mini-stories that are thematically related? The short length of each gives you more room to be a bit more poetic about it, even if you aren't necessarily writing with set line counts. It at least gives you a bit more flexibility than strict poetry would, but in the end I suppose it just really depends on what exactly you want to write about. Whatever you choose, best of luck!