Advaya Anant

       It was a out of the grind experience, when I attended a workshop run by  Edward A. Dougherty  from Corning Community College. He had brought prompts and engaged a group of people who share the same passion, in rounds of writing and sharing from those prompts.         All interested were ask to, 'Join published poet and Corning Community College teacher Ed Dougherty for our Poem-Starter Workshop. We’ll generate ideas for poems using 15-20 minute “Try this + Sharing” cycles. Come prepared to short-circuit the editor-mind and dive into creating! If you’re not interested in poetry, you can use it to create flash fiction.'         Edward A. Dougherty  specialises in poetry but he had given a free hand to use the prompts for flash fiction or just idea generation and the entire group of more than 15 members thoroughly enjoyed, penning down poems. The session was interestingly brainstorming and each one came up with wonderful poems with varied perspectives. He would ask