{"product_id":"three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinations","title":"three six five: prompts, acts, divinations","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Lucy Ives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Siglio Press (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are 365 exercises for writing in this book, but it is not simply a book of writing exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethree six five\u003c\/em\u003e is a “how-to” book of questions—not answers. It is an ars poetica of expanding possibility, a tarot deck of acts instead of images, a book of bending hours, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an antidote to consumption in the shape of care and attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese prompts, acts, and divinations—in alchemical combinations with new drawings by Nick Mauss—invite both aspiring and experienced writers to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and create new ways of telling time, to inhabit multiple, other, and conflicting perspectives, to discover the elasticity of language and its constraints, to write by drawing, walking, listening, and even by being distracted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile this is an inexhaustible compendium for writing, it is also an enduring reservoir for those who have no desire to be(come) a writer. Many exercises take the form of play, encourage collaboration with friends, strangers, and non-human beings, and operate off the page, often in the world, in the spirit of discovery rather than result. All intend to nurture and cultivate possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the lineage of Yoko Ono’s \u003cem\u003eGrapefruit\u003c\/em\u003e and Raymond Queneau’s \u003cem\u003eExercises in Style\u003c\/em\u003e, novelist, poet, and critic Lucy Ives offers encouragement, candor, and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders, and challenges of a writing life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44198133465187,"sku":"9781938221378","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/image_b06d8616-e3c7-458c-8187-a85d4bdd5de9.jpg?v=1779403994","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/three-six-five-prompts-acts-divinations","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}