Category Archives: Miscellany
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 …
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 …
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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