Category Archives: Miscellany
Scintilla13 Day 13
Post a photo of yourself from before age 10. Write about what you remember of the day the photo was taken. It may not be a full story—it may just be flashes of event and emotion—but tap into the child you were as much as you can. The above picture is of me somewhere …
Scintilla13 Day 11
Write about an experience you had that was so strange or incredible, it sounds like it could have been made up. When I was in my senior year of high school, my mother was driving us home one evening from somewhere. We traveled down US 15 in Maryland (something we don’t often do) and when we came …
Scintilla13 Day 10
Sometimes we wish that we could hit the rewind button. Talk about an experience that you would do over if you could. I’m not sure if by “rewind” and “do over” this prompt means something I would go back and change, or something that went so well I’d like to go back and experience again. …
Scintilla13 Day 9
What is the longest thing you know by heart (for example, a prayer, speech, commercial jingle, etc.)? Why did you learn it? I don’t think I could recite it now, though I haven’t tried. But for a while, I had committed to memory the first 15 minutes of the one-man script, “Give ’em Hell, Harry!” 15 minutes may …
Scintilla13 Day 8
Write about a time when a preconceived notion or opinion (about a person, place, thing, etc.) turned out to be wrong. What did it take to change your mind? It wasn’t a long standing or especially strong preconceived notion, but I suppose it qualifies. A few years ago there was an outdoor performance of Taming of the Shrew …
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