Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Writing Prompt
INSTRUCTION:
Make a list of your worst qualities. This should be pretty easy. The negative voice is the head is pretty damned pronounced in a lot of lucky folks. Try to keep it ten.
Make a list, next to each of these worst qualities, where you heard this first. Ie: from your mom, your dad, your husband, an uncle.
Now make a list of the qualities that are the exact opposite of those negative qualities. You do not have to believe you are those things. Just write them down and have them on the page—in order.
Once your lists are created, set them aside.
PROMPT QUESTIONS:
What does the world say about her (or him) and what does she believe? What does she say to herself and when did this begin? What is possible for her, if the world and the voice in the head would be silent?
WRITE & SUBMIT:
Begin each section of your essay with the lines that are the questions and do this in third person.
IE: The world tells her she is too fat, too loud, too, too young. The magazines say she is too poor and the newspapers say she is too brunette and the TV says she doesn’t have enough friends.
She tells herself she is too nervous, too bossy, too opinionated…
If the world and she would stop telling her what she isn’t, this is what she could be….
REMEMBER: On Saturday, I post a few writers. Please keep your essay length work to 500 words.
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