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Journaling + Fiction – April 9
“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”Irving Berlin Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an even that at the time seemed important or signficant about which you now have a different perspective. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist fails to persuade a loved one to put a relatively minor event into perspective.
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“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.” – Hugh Hefner, born this date in 1926. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that her/his partner is more interested in pornography than your protag.
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Writing prompt: Plot the rest of the story that follows this famous opening line: “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
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“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” – Charles Baudelaire, born this date in 1821. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist contemplates a small element of nature that appears in a location it doesn’t belong.
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The US Civil War ended on this date in 1865 when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Describe your opinions about an issue you consider so important that you would go to war against your own family if they were on the other side of that issue.
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Write about a time when you acted out something you read in a book or saw on TV or in a movie.
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“What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.” -Barbara Kingsolver, born this date in 1955. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist observes — and must decide how to respond to — an act of social injustice.
read moreBig Questions – April 8
What would you do if you knew you had one day left to live? Journaling prompt: Spend 15-20 minutes writing your answer in the spirit of exploring yourself and the world around you. If you can answer with a simple “yes” or “no,” explain the sources or implications of your response. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene that forces a character in your story to answer the question, or spend 15-20 minutes answering the question in the voice of a character you want to know more about. Photo from Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely usable...
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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an object or idea you consider sublime that most other people do not. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist finds no allies in his/her appreciation for an object of beauty.
read moreRomance – April 8
“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.” -John Fante, born this date in 1909. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is spurned by a person because of their extreme difference in material wealth.
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David B. Schlosser is an author of award-winning fiction and non-fiction, and an editor of award-winning fiction and non-fiction.
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