This is a continuation of my list of 40 things that would blow my mind if they actually happened. Check out the exercise on our writing page for more information and check out Part 1 for my previous 20..
21. Seeing Aom (my Thai student) in the States when I go home in October 22. Seeing people's auras 23. Inventing something 24. If I was recognized as "famous" for anything 25. Being a published novelist 26. Seeing my baby (even if I had known I was pregnant) for the first time 27. Seeing a mermaid 28. Winning the lottery 29. Being offered a job by a headhunter 30. Being left something valuable in a will 31. If somebody offered to pay my students loans or the gov't forgave them 32. waking up as an actual butterfly 33. The discovery that we do all see colors differently 34. If I shrunk 35. Learning any animal species has a written language 36. Finding gold 37. Flying a helicopter or plane 38. Exploring a shipwreck 39. Finding out I'm royalty of a tiny island nation 40. Having access to all the secrets of the Catholic Church, past and present (finances, documents, etc.) Bonus: If I stopped aging
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This short start to a story is the result of a Who, What, Where, Why, When group writing exercise. Our prompts were:
Who - An old lady What - Trying to get her license back Why - To drive to see her lover Where - Brazil When - Christmas time "It's cold out. Don't forget it's cold out." Ginger was getting herself ready to leave the house, where she had been alone, aside from her orange cabby, for three weeks. She didn't like to leave the house, ordinarily, and this was especially true in December, which it was on this day. Christmas time. But when a person is in love, they will do extraordinary things sometimes. Prompt: You come across a shoebox on the beach. What's in it? (Please note, this is to be sung, not read. Now warm up your vocal cords.)
A shoe box, a blue box - Oh, what's in you, box? I found you buried three feet under sand. And I can't understand, why a woman or man Would put you by hand So far down, under sand. Last week we did an exercise where we compiled a list of 20 things that would blow our minds if they actually happened. (Our homework is to grow this list to 40, so stay tuned.) For more on this exercise and the resulting writing, click here. Below is my list of 20 Things That Would Blow My Mind If They Actually Happened.
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