This story was inspired by a prompt by Angelo Crews, a warrior living and teaching in a different part of Thailand.
Imagine you're in a courtroom having to defend yourself against a murder charge. The medical examiner has spoken about the autopsy and your DNA is present. There are eyewitness accounts placing you at the crime scene, your fingerprints are there and on the murder weapon. The family of the victim is there looking at you during all of this. The oddest thing, is that the person you seem to have murdered doesn't actually exist. You know this, and you know everyone does as well yet they're all sending you to prison for the murder of a person who doesn't exist. How do you argue your innocence against a jury who isn't in on the game and are only going off what they hear and see?
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Danger Cantaloupe Nail Polish Bite Storm Spell Crate Detain Slide Light Grab bag pull: Fiction Writing prompt:
The following quote was chosen by group members selecting random numbers: 78, 7, and 8. We grabbed the closest book turned to page 78, the 7th paragraph and read the 8th sentence. The book was 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Until her last moment on Earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster." This poem template was created by my former Fulbright colleague, roommate, and friend while we were teaching at a community college in South Africa. For more on that experience, check out my Fulbright blog. For more information on this writing exercise, click here.
Another example of grab bag exercise. Check out more on this exercise, here.
My ten words: light bulb, motorbike, mosquito, cheetah, breakfast, dance, air hockey, hypnotize, balance, crater. I pulled out: Legal Citation To learn more about this exercise check out the Writing Exercise page
Who: Sloth What: Wants to learn how to talk Why: It wants to be a guitar player Where: Cat heaven When: 1920s Another example of the writing exercise- Grab Bag.
My ten words: stationary, wine, peanut butter, cat aids, porcupine, Saturdays, courtship, field, dreams, pelvis I pulled out of the bag "How to Guide" In this exercise, we started with the first 10 words that came to us. Once we had those, we decided to write a poem using these words. My words were: spacious, Vanderbijlpark, fountainpen, Snuffaluffagus, peppermint, smores, demonstration, perception, determined, potions
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