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Literary – March 24
“It’s much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.” -Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born this date in 1919. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which an image causes your protagonist to offend someone s/he cares about.
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“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about an event that caused you to lose respect for yourself and how you recovered it. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist demonstrates a lack of respect for an ally because your protagonist didn’t learn an important lesson in humility.
read moreBig Questions – March 24
What device you’re currently making do with needs to be replaced? 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...
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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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“Why? What you mean, ‘Why?’ Because you’re different, that’s why. You know, you’re like me. You want different things. You got somethin’ better than bein’ a waitress. You and me travelin’ together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma, and everybody’d know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.”- A movie version of Clyde Barrow, born this date in 1909. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist does something foolishly dangerous to impress a person...
read moreSciFi/Fantasy – March 24
“The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it.” George Orr dreamed up a solution to overpopulation on this date in Ursula K. LeGuin’s 2002. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist creates reality using her/his imagination.
read moreSecondary – March 24
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.” -John Wesley Powell, the first white person to navigate the Grand Canyon and explorer of much of what now typifies the American southwest, born on this date in 1834. Describe a time when you conjectured incorrectly and what you learned from your mistake.
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On this date in 1975, the beaver became the official symbol of Canada. Choose an animal to be your symbol and describe why that animal is a good representative of you.
read moreLiterary – March 23
Joan Crawford was born on this date in 1905. Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist confronts a dear friend whose perspective on your protag’s mother is diametrically opposed to your protag’s.
read moreJournaling + Fiction – March 23
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”Seth Godin Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned from observing a leader enable the spread of great ideas. Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s great idea is smothered by a poor leader.
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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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