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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Vejas, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Perhaps at some point in the future you might think about a compilation of some of your many writings into a book?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is often how one’s first book begins to take shape. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>For those who blog regularly, it is typical for them to eventually begin to look over their posts and begin to see the potential book they have already been writing without knowing it. This could be what you have been doing with your many writings from prompts, and in your course work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Lynda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Writers' Division Mailing List <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] writing prompts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi Ann,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Thanks so much for sending this.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I like prompts when I want to write but am not sure what to write.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I tried this exercise 2 years ago in which I found a list of 365 prompts online and tried writing them. The idea on the site was that you would do one per day of the year. But my writing bug was really itching and I had no creative writing classes at the time, so I wrote lots each day, and out of order at that.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I think I got to about half, give or take. It just felt like too much. I still have them, though: maybe I shall continue them. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Vejas <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On 2 Oct 2019, at 14:50, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Got this list from a blog, good fodder:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Non-Fiction Writing Prompts<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Write about a moment that divided your life into before and after.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>2. Write about a “missed connection.”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>3. Recall a memorable (delightful, brilliant, cruel) teacher from your school days.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>4. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” – Ernest Hemingway<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>5. Write about a book you loved as a child. Use this as a jumping off point to say something about who you are now.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>6. Do something you’ve never done before. Write about the experience.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>7. Find a piece of music that reminds you of a time and place from your past.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>8. Write about a déjà vu experience, where one incident reminded you of another one from your past.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>9. Write a scene of a personal experience that risks making you look bad.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>10. Make the familiar unfamiliar.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>11. Write about an experience where setting was your main antagonist.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>12. Write about a childhood incident, using the “Voice of Innocence.”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>13. Write about a twist of fate.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>14. Write about a time you were a fish out of water.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>15. Write about a time you or someone you know had a “status update.”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>16. Write your own “modern love” story.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>17. Write about a time your body rebelled.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>18. Imagine what the life of a person you know was like before you met them.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>19. Begin a creative non-fiction piece with a scene of movement, creating rhythm with your prose.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>20. Write a piece about two incidents from your life that occurred in the same setting, finding a thematic link between them.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>21. Write a creative non-fiction piece in the form of a list.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>22. Write a piece using the 2nd person point of view.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>23. Write a 6-word memoir.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>24. Write a piece centred on your hometown.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>25. 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