New Writing Exercise #34 devised by Margaret Wilkinson Gloves   #1 Research the making of gloves, now and in the past. Develop a vocabulary of arcane glove words and use these as the basis of a poem or story about grief, anger, envy, disappointment, old age. #2 Explore character through the gloves of somebody in a crisis: a priest who has lost his faith; an old woman who shoplifts; a suffragette with a sweet tooth; an accountant who starts embezzling.... #3 When empty, a glove remembers the shape of its owner’s hand. Freud said gloves were a vagina symbol. Write an erotic story or poem with a woman’s glove at its heart.
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