Think of the person who means the most to you in the entire world: not necessarily romantically, but someone you love with all your heart. Now, dress them for their funeral.
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Tips from the Bar: the Big Fish Prompt
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January 3, 2011
Write a family history for your future spawn, but make it historically inaccurate and filled with hyperbole.
Tips from the Bar: No Thanks, I’m Driving
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January 3, 2011
Poetically turn down an invitation from someone.
Tips from the Bar: the April Ranger Prompt
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January 3, 2011
Write a love letter to a fictional figure from literature (Tom Sawyer, Hester Prynne, The Grinch, etc.).
Tips from the Bar: the Cross Media Prompt
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January 3, 2011
Write a love letter from a character from a movie, book, TV show, comic, etc. to a character from another media source. You may not write a love note back and forth between two media with the same foundation (i.e. Frodo from the Fellowship of The Ring movie to Sam from The Fellowship Of The …
Tips from the Bar: the Birth of Written Language
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January 3, 2011
Write about the first letter, word, sentence, or story ever written down.
Tips from the Bar: the Jonathan Safran Foer Prompt
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January 3, 2011
“It’s always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
Tips from the Bar: the Corine Hat Prompt
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January 3, 2011
“A week after his wife died, my father wrote the first piece of writing he’d written in thirty-five years. As in, he hadn’t written letters, e-mails, journals, anything but grocery lists and reminders. Knowing this, his wife wrote her own eulogy, and a Death Letter (she’d been terminally ill for a while, so she’d prepared …
Tips from the Bar: the Christian Drake Prompt
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January 3, 2011
Write a poem based around a completely fictional fact or set of facts about an animal.
Tips from the Bar: Team Feelings Goes In
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January 3, 2011
Write a poem about the death of a dog.
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