Write about a person whose reputation rests on the appearance of an inanimate object.
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Writing Prompt 4/21/13
When was the last time that you tried to help someone and it blew up in your face? What were your real motives for helping? Spend five minutes on this topic if you’re still too angry.
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Writing Prompt 4/20/13
Think of three of the worst things you have done and assign them to the pasts of the nicest people you know. This is not the basis of a conversation to have with those people, probably. Fictionalize the incidents and perpetrators in a story or poem and see what happens.
Good luck. Don’t get bogged down in remorse. That’s not what this is about.
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Writing Prompt 4/18/13
What do you like about the weather?
What do you dislike about the weather?
That’s a big topic, perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to talk about.
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Writing Prompt 4/17/13
Use the following 8 words in your story or poem of no more than 50 words. Words can be used in any declension.
mercy
tulip
rollerskate
postcard
lunchbox
foundry
slipper
sweat
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Writing Prompt 4/16/13
Write a stretch of two-person dialogue in which one of the participant’s responses is significantly non-verbal.
Example:
Adele: “What do you think of going to a movie tonight?”
Bernard shrugged his shoulders above the newspaper he held above his face.
Adele: “I heard that the new one with Marilyn Monroe is quite good.”
Bernard brought the newspaper down to his lap and raised his eyebrows inquisitively.
Adele: “It’s called ‘Some Like it Hot,’ or something like that.”
Bernard smiled and folded up the newspaper and rose from his chair. “Shall we?” he invited.
You get the idea.
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Writing Prompt 4/9/13
What happened on this day one hundred years ago (4.9.1913)? Maybe something important that made the national news, or just the local news (paper, radio, or street gossip) in your home town. You could look the day up in an almanac for supporting period facts, and just tell the story of one simple little thing that happened, that maybe nobody knew about. Story or poem of any length.
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