The Nation of the Challenged (from 8/10 prompt)

Diane Arbus: “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
“What does it mean to go where you’ve never been? Does it mean to go to a new place? Or, to paraphrase Marcel Proust, to see a familiar landscape with new eyes? Write about the experience of going where you’d never been [...]

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Going where I’ve never been

“What does it mean to go where you’ve never been? Does it mean to go to a new place? Or (to paraphrase Marcel Proust) to see a familiar landscape with new eyes? …Write about the experience of going where you’d never been before. What did you see there? How did it make you feel? What [...]

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Can of Worms

Our can of worms, courtesy of Rose and Johnett.

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New prompt for 8/24 meeting

Here’s the prompt, from Starting Points, for our next meeting at 12:30 on 8/24. I’ve only modified it very slightly. — js
Beginning quotes: “Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time — like to have a friend takes time.” — Georgia O’Keefe//”A [...]

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Quickwrite: 8/10/08

Ladies, here is the quickwriting prompt that we pulled today from the “Can of Worms”. I think I’ll post my response as well. Hope you will post yours as well.
Prompt (from The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood): “Invent a circumstance in which a character is forced to change his name.”
Johnett’s response:
Okay, I can’t [...]

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