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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We could do this on this list if it is okay with our president, <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span>. It also might help with content for future writing contests.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Annie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Author<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>` Making meaningful connections with others through writing `<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.annchiappetta.com</span></a> or <a href="http://www.dldbooks.com/annchiappetta/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.dldbooks.com/annchiappetta/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blog: <a href="http://www.thought-wheel.com/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.thought-wheel.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Facebook Annie Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Kuell via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Chris Kuell <ckuell@comcast.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] writing prompts<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Ann. There are a number of excellent prompts here. Several years ago I belonged to an active online writing group and we did a number of prompts, and I really enjoyed seeing how different writers approached the same prompt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for sharing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Stylist [<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ann Chiappetta via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List'<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:anniecms64@gmail.com">anniecms64@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Stylist] writing prompts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Got this list from a blog, good fodder:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt;background:#1E1E1E'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white'>Non-Fiction Writing Prompts</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='color:black;margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:19.2pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato'>Write about a moment that divided your life into <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-1/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>before and after</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>2.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a “<a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-2/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>missed connection</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>3.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Recall a memorable (delightful, brilliant, cruel) <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-3/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>teacher from your school days</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>4.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>“<a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-4/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>The dignity of movement of an iceberg</span></a> is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” – Ernest Hemingway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>5.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-5/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>a book you loved</span></a> as a child. Use this as a jumping off point to say something about who you are now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>6.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Do <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-6/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>something you’ve never done</span></a> before. Write about the experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>7.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Find <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-7/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>a piece of music</span></a> that reminds you of a time and place from your past.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>8.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-8/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>a déjà vu experience</span></a>, where one incident reminded you of another one from your past.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>9.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a scene of a personal experience that risks <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-9/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>making you look bad</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>10.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Make the <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-10/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>familiar unfamiliar</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>11.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about an experience where <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-11/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>setting was your main antagonist</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>12.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a childhood incident, using the “<a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-12/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>Voice of Innocence</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>13.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-13/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>twist of fate</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>14.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a time you were a <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/01/non-fiction-prompt-14/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>fish out of water</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>15.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a time you or someone you know had a “<a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/02/non-fiction-prompt-15/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>status update</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>16.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write your own “<a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/02/non-fiction-prompt-16/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>modern love</span></a>” story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>17.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write about a time <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/02/non-fiction-prompt-17/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>your body rebelled</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>18.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Imagine what the life of a person you know was like <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/03/non-fiction-prompt-18/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>before you met them</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>19.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Begin a creative non-fiction piece with <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/03/non-fiction-prompt-19/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>a scene of movement</span></a>, creating rhythm with your prose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>20.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a piece about two incidents from your life that <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/03/non-fiction-prompt-20/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>occurred in the same setting</span></a>, finding a thematic link between them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>21.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a creative non-fiction piece in <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/03/non-fiction-prompt-21/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>the form of a list</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>22.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a piece using the <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/04/non-fiction-prompt-22/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>2<sup>nd</sup> person point of view</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>23.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/04/non-fiction-prompt-23/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>6-word memoir</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>24.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Write a piece centred <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/04/non-fiction-prompt-24-2/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>on your hometown</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>25.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black'>Tell the <a href="https://www.eventmagazine.ca/2016/04/non-fiction-prompt-25/"><span style='color:#0D5BE6'>other side of the story</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Author<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>` Making meaningful connections with others through writing `<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/">www.annchiappetta.com</a> or <a href="http://www.dldbooks.com/annchiappetta/">www.dldbooks.com/annchiappetta/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blog: <a href="http://www.thought-wheel.com/">www.thought-wheel.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Facebook Annie Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>