Writing Prompt October 7, 2010

Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/books/08nobel.html?ref=nobel_prizes

In an interview with The Times in 2002, Mr. Vargas Llosa said that it was the novelist’s obligation to question real life. “I don’t think there is a great fiction that is not an essential contradiction of the world as it is,” he said. “The Inquisition forbade the novel for 300 years in Latin America. I think they understood very well the seditious consequence that fiction can have on the human spirit.’”

Give some examples of seditious consequences caused by whatever acts you might think of in the next few moments. Write them from the point of view of the human heart.

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Writing Prompt October 5, 2010

Your charge for today is to take the following horoscope and revise it to mean something quite the opposite, or seriously aslant.

“You may not feel overly imaginative today, but that doesn’t have to prevent you from being productive. Make a list of some things you want to accomplish, but don’t get hung up on what you don’t finish. Instead of focusing on what is not completed, give yourself enough credit for what you actually do.”

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