Category Archives: Miscellany
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 …
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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