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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered on this date in 1955. Writing prompt: Write a birthday party scene in which your protagonist gradually realizes everyone at the party knows something s/he does not.
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“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.” -Julia Glass, born this date in 1956. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist realizes s/he is being loved the wrong way.
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“Nice is different than good.” -Stephen Sondheim, born this date in 1930. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist is forced to choose whether to be good or nice.
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On this date in England in 1617, Pocahontas died in her early 20s after she’d converted to Christianity, taken the Biblical name Rebecca, and married Englishman John Rolfe. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which a potential lifemate asks your protagonist to give up something central to her/his identity as a condition of sharing a life.
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Henrik Ibsen, born this date in 1828, wrote “the door slam heard around the world” as the conclusion to A Doll’s House, his play about a woman trapped in an unsatisfying marriage. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist responds to the very last straw.
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dbschlosser on Mar 19th, 2025 in
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Irving Wallace was born on this date in 1916. His best-selling The Chapman Report was based on the Kinsey Reports and made into a 1962 film that the studio intended to be a more frank discussion of sexual habits than television of the time permitted. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which a frank discussion of sexual habits reveals that your protagonist’s differ from what the rest of the group considers...
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dbschlosser on Mar 18th, 2025 in
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“An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.” -John Updike, born this date in 1932. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which someone to whom your protagonist revealed a secret love uses that information to devastating effect.
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dbschlosser on Mar 17th, 2025 in
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Nat “King” Cole was born on this date in 1919. Writing prompt: Write descriptive paragraphs about your protagonist based on an adjective beginning with each letter of your protag’s first...