Fall 2014 ---Day 1 DAILY WRITING PROMPT Title: The Other Perspective Body: Your perception of a piece of art

is often going to differ from the artists perception, just as your perception of your writing is often going to differ from the perception of your readersyour readers perception of your writing. For this exercise, fFind a painting, and select an object in thate painting. Now create a background for this object. You may tell its history, its role in the painting, or give it character. Pay particular attention to what the painting tells you, and what the artist might have thought about this object. Characterize your object;, give it life outside the painting. Use this exercise to consider how your readers will read your writing, and what you want them to see, feel and think.
Comment [HL1]: The only suggestion I have for this prompt would be to clarify what you mean by character, by giving the object character, and by creating a background. Maybe offer an example as well. I really like the intention of this exercise, by the way! Of thinking about how readers perceive ones writingreally interesting.

DAILY READING--WRITING EXERCISE Title: Excerpt from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (http://2011writinginplace.wikispaces.com/file/view/Sherman+Alexie++Exerpt+THE+LONE+RANGER+ANDTONTO+FISTFIGHT+IN+HEAVEN.pdf) Body: "Hello," he asked when I walked into his store. "How you doing?" I gave him a half-wave as I headed back to the freezer. He looked me over so he could describe me to the police later. I knew the look. One of my old girlfriends said I started to look at her that way, too. She left me not long after that. No, I left her and don't blame her for anything. That's how it happened. When one person starts to look at another like a criminal, then the love is over. It's logical. "I don't trust you," she said to me. "You get too angry." She was white and I lived with her in Seattle. Some nights we fought so bad that I would just get in my car and drive all night, only stop to fill up on gas. In fact, I worked the graveyard shift to spend as much time away from her as possible. But I learned all about Seattle that way, driving its back ways and dirty alleys. Sometimes, though, I would forget where I was and get lost. I'd drive for hours, searching for something familiar. Seems like I'd spent my whole life that way, looking for anything I recognized. Once, I ended up in a nice residential neighborhood and somebody must have been worried because the police showed up and pulled me over. "What are you doing out here?" the police officer asked me as he looked over my license and registration. "I'm lost."

Prompt: Alexie used many different techniques-- flashbacks, dream sequences, and even poetry- to tell a story. including flashbacks, dream sequences and even poetry. A flashback connects two different points in time to forward the story or tell more about your character. However, its important to properly transition into a flashback with something relevant in your story, to hook your reader, and to tactfully writer an event. Write an occurring scene that begins nowin the present tense, but include flashes a flashback to an important time that will tell the reader more about the scene than the scene itself could. Riff Word: pPattern LITERARY QUOTATION: Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Author: Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Comment [HL2]: advance may be a better word?

Fall 2014 ---Day 2 DAILY WRITING PROMPT Title: Do Yyou Rremember? Body: Sometimes, we grow up andin growing up we forget the places we had loved the mostonce loved the most. However, Tthese places, however, may have held potent memories from our past have and may even have held strong emotions, and potent memories from our past. These placesThey contain the ability to make use want to show others. Think of a place that you visited as a child and consider what it made you feel. Was it anger? Excitement? Fear? Now bring your readers to this place and time by, and create awriting a piece where your audiencethat conveys feels what you had once felt there. Utilize tone and details to properly transmit the emotion of this time. DAILY READING--WRITING EXERCISE Title: Excerpt from The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne (http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hmind.html) Body: You sink down and muffle your head in the clothes, shivering all the while, but less from bodily chill, than the bare idea of a polar atmosphere. It is too cold even for thoughts to venture abroad. You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction, and drowsily conscious of nothing but delicious warmth, such as you now feel again. Ah! That idea has brought a hideous one in its train. You think how the dead are lying in their cold shrouds and narrow coffins, through the dear winter of the grave, and cannot persuade your fancy that they neither shrink nor shiver, when the snow is drifting over the little hillocks, and the bitter blast howls against the door of the tomb. That gloomy thought will collect a gloomy multitude, and throw its complexion over your wakeful hour. Prompt: While first- person and third- person perspectives are most commonly used, writing in second- person will challenge your abilities and effectively pull a reader into action. It gives a more personal side that cant be difficult to find do with 1st the first- or third-person perspective.or 3rd. Write your next piece about a simple moment in time. It can be about having yourA cup of coffee in the morning, or even just getting into your car. E, and effectively draw the reader into the experience and the persons characters thoughts using the second- person perspective. Riff Word: sScythe LITERARY QUOTATION: Write what should not be forgotten.

Comment [HL3]: produced may be a better word Comment [HL4]: Worded awkwardly, consider revising?

Comment [HL5]: produces may be a better word?

Author: Isabelle Allende (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13048-write-what-should-not-beforgotten)

Fall 2014----Day 3

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DAILY WRITING PROMPT Title: Regretfully, Me. Body: Everyone knows a time when they released wordssaid something that should not have been said. Think of a time when you misused or regretted using certain words you used because of the repercussions they held for you. How did they alter your relationship with this person? Create an essay, short story, or poem that clearly portrays a relationship that was altered because of something you said. Its important to pay attention to the words spoken , and the minute movements of characters to show the differences in attitude towards each other. DAILY READING--WRITING EXERCISE Title: An excerpt from The Lion, the Wwitch, and the Wwardrobe, by C.S. Lewis Body: "Nothing there!" said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily, and two moth-balls dropped out. Looking into the inside, she saw several coats hanging up - mostly long fur coats. There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She took a step further in - then two or three steps always expecting to feel woodwork against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it. "This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy, going still further in and pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet. "I wonder is that more mothballs?" she thought, stooping down to feel it with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This is very queer," she said, and went on a step or two further. Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur

but something hard and rough and even prickly. "Why, it is just like branches of trees!" exclaimed Lucy. And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air. Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard a pitter patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post. Prompt: In every world you create, there are rules that must be followed-- R. Rules about life, people, thoughts, actions, and even your characters.. Fantasy Ffiction occurs when these rules are broken. In this excerpt, a wardrobe is not a wardrobe, but a doorway. Lucy is a curious character, who persists in exploring. In your story,For this exercise, write a short story. In it, break a rule that will turn your story into a Ffantasy Ffiction setting. Include a character who will highlight the broken rule with their own special characteristic. You can simply create a doorway to another world completely that will engage your readers with its altered limitations and setting. Riff Word: sSphere LITERARY QUOTATION: Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. Author: Walter Moers (The City of Dreaming Books)

Comment [HL6]: is created may work better? Comment [HL7]: transform your story into Fantasy Fiction may be a better, clearer phrase. The use of setting may be misleading (do you mean location-setting or?). Also, I love this prompt and the breaking rules aspect! Comment [HL8]: A little unclear what you mean hereconsider revising?

Fall 2014----Day 4 DAILY WRITING PROMPT Title: History Mystery Body: What is the date today? Look up events in history that occurred on this date. Pick an event, and use the information it as a promptthe content of a short written work. Whether it be a simple sentence, or a detailed paragraph or two, write a story, essay or poem about what occurred on this day in history, elaborating on the facts given. While this can be a fictional piece, use the factual information to create believability in the event that occurred, whether or not you only share the true occurrences. Providing small details such as the weather, the style of the buildings, orand the clothing of the era will serve to bringbetter interject your readers into this time and place. Create an essay, short story, or poem about this event in history, and be sure to include at least one factual detail. DAILY READING--WRITING EXERCISE Title: Excerpt from Husband Returns in Form of Parrot by Robert Olen Butler (http://webdelsol.com/butler/rob-5.htm) Body: "Hello," she says, and she comes over to me and I can't believe how beautiful she is. Those great brown eyes, almost as dark as the center of mine. And her nose--I don't remember her for her nose but its beauty is clear to me now. Her nose is a little too long, but it's redeemed by the faint hook to it. She scratches the back of my neck. Her touch makes my tail flare. I feel the stretch and rustle of me back there. I bend my head to her and she whispers, "Pretty bird." For a moment I think she knows it's me. But she doesn't, of course. I say "Hello" again and I will eventually pick up "pretty bird." I can tell that as soon as she says it, but for now I can only give her another hello. Her fingertips move through my feathers and she seems to know about birds. She knows that to pet a bird you don't smooth his feathers down, you ruffle them. Prompt: Different Atypical perspectives allow readers to process a written work differently than they normally for the reader to see something different than someone normally would. Pick an animal or an inanimate object, and write about a humans day through their eyes. Do they know the humans? Understand them? Do they notnt know anything at all? Are they looking down on themus?, Ddo they see humans as towering beings?. Consider the mind of the animal in

Comment [HL9]: A little unclear what you meanmaybe this is unnecessary? (I love this prompt, btwtheres so much in history that can be utilized in fictional writing). Comment [HL10]: Unnecessary?

this world. Consider the mind of an inanimate object. You can even take a piece you have already written and show it from an another objects perspective, and you can decide how it changes the story. Allow us to see the world from their a new pair of eyes. Riff Word: sSkin LITERARY QUOTATION: "The biographer's art is that of confessing through the mask of another's personality." Author: Yahia Lababidi (http://www.poemine.com/Yahia-Lababidi/quotes/)

Comment [HL11]: Unnecessary?

Fall 2014----Day 5 DAILY WRITING PROMPT Title: Familiarity Body: A typical piece of writing advice is to "write what you know." While something we have grown up with may seem boring to us, it can be fascinating to others. Pick something from your childhood-- . aA place, an object, a song, an experience--, that you feel you know better than anyone in the world. You dont have to use your imagination this time, or think about how it should feel. You know how it feels. Allow the writing to come easily, as you already have all the information necessary. Now write about this experience, and bring us there with you. Make it feel familiar to your readers, as though they also know it.. DAILY READING--WRITING EXERCISE Title: An excerpt from Lolita, By Vladimir Novakov
Body: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue

taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Comment [HL12]: Is it being a powerful introduction related to this prompt? Comment [HL13]: Maybe list the techniques that he uses?

Prompt: The previous excerpt shows a powerful introduction. Its not simple writing, but for Nabokov uses instead literary techniques included in this introductionto add strength and

fluidityow. Create a scene showing a strong emotion towards a particular character. Incorporate a literary technique to add strength and power to the scene. Riff Word: wrWhiskey LITERARY QUOTATION: The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here. Author: Seamus Heaney, Station Island

Comment [HL14]: Think over this prompt and decide exactly what youre intending the exercise to be. Is the intention for the writer to create a scene showing strong emotion towards something? To use literary techniques? Both? It is a little unclear.