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Scintilla Day 6

Write about a chance meeting that has stayed with you ever since. This doesn’t happen to me often, because to be frank, strangers don’t find me interesting, charming, or worth the time to engage. I don’t play social games often, and when I do, rejection is usually the result, so I don’t bother. When people …

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Scintilla Day 5

What talent do you have that your usual blog readers don’t know about? Talk about a time when you showed it to its best advantage. In many cases, I have to take someone else’s word for it that I have a talent. Some of that is not giving myself enough credit, I’m sure. Yet there …

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Scintilla13 Day Four

Being trapped in a confined environment can turn an ordinary experience into a powder keg. Write about a thing that happened to you while you were using transportation; anything from your first school bus ride, to a train or plane, to being in the backseat of the car on a family road trip. Over the …

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Scintilla13 Day Three

Talk about a time when you were driving and you sang in the car, all alone. Why do you remember this song, and that stretch of road?   This is a bit like asking me to talk about a time I used salt, and why I remember doing so for that particular meal. It quite …

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Scintilla13, Day Two

Tell the story about something interesting (anything!) that happened to you, but tell it in the form of an instruction manual (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3….)   How to End Up on E! Step One: Find something big and public with lots of people in a big city, (Example, 4th of July in Washington, …

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