Everybody Needs a Place for Their Stuff
Published December 28th, 2008 | 
Remember that old George Carlin routine, “a place for your stuff?” Americans love accumulating crap. From department stores, yard sales and flea markets. From every corner of the globe. And I’m sure that even in this economic downturn, you bought more stuff and received stuff for Christmas. Video games and video game systems — DVDs, TVs, and clothes. Well, maybe you need a new place to store your stuff. If you’re anything like me, you’re completely disorganized and really need a place for all your stuff!
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Writing Prompt #2: Getting Descripty With It
Published December 28th, 2008 | I’m getting ready to kick back and watch the Eagles/Dallas game but, before I sign-off, I thought I’d throw up one more writing prompt to close-out the final weekend before the new year. This one should get your mental faucets flowing:
You’re sitting in a room (real or imaginary — for the purpose of this exercise it doesn’t really matter which one) and you are looking around this room. What do you see? Pick out ten objects at random that you see in this room.
Got them picked out? Okay,what you’re going to do is write the names of these objects on a piece of paper. Memorize the list.
Can you remember the objects you have listed? Set this list aside somewhere out of sight but within reach. Now, what your going to do is go to your computer or grab a notebook and a pen if you’d prefer.
Without referring to your list or mentioning any of the objects on the list, I want you to describe the objects in detail, using as few words as possible (again, without mentioning the actual names of the objects from the list).
Show your descriptions to another person and have them read what you have written. Ask them to list the objects you have described (without seeing your list). Do the objects on their list match your own? If so, you get a gold star.
Writing Prompt: This is What Cosmetic Surgery Was Designed For
Published December 27th, 2008 |
Write a short story about a female character who looks something like the woman in the above picture. Use the picture as your inspiration.
Obviously, she’s not a physically attractive woman. I don’t want to be mean, but for the sake of this exercise let’s be brutally honest, shall we? The woman looks like fifty miles of bad road. Bad skin. Bad hair. Her face is a train wreck. It’s hard to tell just from a photo, but one breast looks bigger than the other, so she could probably benefit from a breast reduction procedure to even it out. Anyway, what makes this woman seem even more unattractive is the way she presents herself in this picture. She’s wearing that shirt with the slogan: "You can’t afford me!" Her posture and body language suggests that she’s incredibly vain and is completely oblivious to how odious she is.
So you have this character to start with — a woman who is possibly as unattractive on the inside as she is on the outside. Someone who maybe is not very nice to others. Who thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips. What happens to her in the story? Does she get her comeuppance? Does she transform into a better person? Is she really a better person than the picture suggests? Maybe she’s a truly nice person, kind and fun-loving and has lots of friends. What does she do for a living? Is she a truck-stop hooker or barmaid? Maybe she’s school teacher by day? Maybe she’s a meth addict or her husband beats her.
There are any number of things you can do with this character. The point is to learn to use your imagination, project and be inspired by any stranger you’d pass on the street. To be able to extrapolate based on limited information. Get to work.
