February 2012
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“No two persons ever read the same book.”
– Edmund Wilson
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January 2012
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November 2011
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Best Christmas Journal Gift Ever
Want to make someone in your life smile and laugh out loud?
Start by buying them a journal as a Christmas Gift.
Pick one that is either smiliar to a date book in that each page contains the date of the month and the day of the week. OR buy a blank one and number each page with the day of the year.
Then begin to write little sayings, ideas, and thoughts at the top of the page randomly,...
“For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green...”
– Lemony Snicket
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October 2011
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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down...”
– W.B. Yeats
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August 2011
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“When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every...”
– Stephen King (Nightmares and Dreamscapes)
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July 2011
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Writing Prompt #95
What do you feel is the most interesting and varied ancient culture? Which one would you choose if you could only study one people and one language? Now imagine a day in the life of a normal person in this culture far in the past. What would be the typical daily activities for this person?
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“We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re...”
– Orson Scott Card
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Writing Prompt #94
Everybody in the world has disappeared except for you. Describe your next 24 hours.
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“Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is...”
– Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality)
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Writing Prompt #93
All of a sudden, the entire world can hear each other’s thoughts. How does the planet cope?
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“The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of...”
– Shannon Hale
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Writing Prompt #92
You wake up to find yourself in your five-year-old body and back in time. How do you spend your first 24 hours in this situation?
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“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
– Samuel Johnson
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Writing Prompt #91
You are asked to testify against a good friend of yours in a court case. Your friend is being tried for murder. You know full well that he committed it. What do you do?
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“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always...”
– Jasper Fforde (Lost in a Good Book)
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Writing Prompt #90
[from Mike Sellars]
Nobody knew his real name. Everyone just called him the Tattooed Man. It seemed like something of a misnomer to Stephen, though. He wasn’t so much tattooed as vandalised, defaced. The images scrawled onto his body looked like the work of a demented child. Only the demented child was the Tattooed Man himself, or so the story went. Each of the images etched into his flesh was a...
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“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be...”
– Richard Peck (Anonymously Yours)
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Writing Prompt #89
The person who completely broke your heart is meeting you for coffee in an hour. Describe the next three hours.
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“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the...”
– Andy Andrews
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“One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I...”
– Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)
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Journal Exercise #4
Photo List Journal
Pick a list topic. Some sample topics for lists are: all the books you want to read, all the things you want to do in your lifetime, all the places you want to visit, etc.
Choose one type of list to start with the npick a number, for example 50. Always choose a number that feels comfortable and this will be a goal you will want to reach. So, on your journal page write,...
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Writing Prompt #88
At first, I thought it was a dead chick: one of those barely feathered near-foetuses you stumble across every now and then while out walking in the woods. I wondered how it had got there: in the attic, on top of a pile of newspaper clippings, themselves stacked upon a small tower of battered suitcases containing my wife’s favourite clothes. Scrutinising the thing (squinting, as if this would...
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Journal Exercise #3
Photo/Poem Journal
A poetry/photo journal is a good way to explore your vision of the world.
Start with one word; try writing about “water.”
let your thoughts explore all of the associations you have with water. Do you think about drinking a cool glass of water on a warm day? Or do you think about how raindrops sound when they hit the surface of the pond? Write down whatever comes...
