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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 …
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, …
Scintilla Day 1
I’ve decided to once again take part in the Scintilla Project this year, whereby bloggers are giving a prompt each day for two weeks. So my usual schedule of blogging will be a bit off for the rest of March. But it will do good for my writing skills. (And who doesn’t want that?) Today’s …
