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October 2008Warmup #25
1200 word challenge:
Write a diary entry of someone witnessing a historical event that hasn’t happened yet.
Warmup #24
1200 word challenge:
Be Jane Austen or JRR Tolkien: Write unnecessarily lengthy prose describing some generic and boring piece of scenery. A field is nice, as is an utterly empty room.
TV Shows: “Fringe”
Do you know what I find most appealing about the “fringe science” TV show “Fringe”?
It’s set in Boston! I keep seeing towns I know. Milford, Mass., just got a shout out.
It was funny until I saw the date
Letter to the Red States — I thought it was funny until I saw that it wasn’t written recently (and I appreciated that MSFT got a mention).
Warmup #23
1200 word challenge:
Pretend you’re Joss Whedon. Write two characters having a conversation about the weather.
Warmup #22
800 word challenge:
Describe the experience of wearing too small shoes.
Warmup #21
800 word challenge:
In honor of my wife: Write a romantic scene: either true love (think Princess Bride), or angst (Troi and Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mulder and Scully, Mal and Inara, Kaylee and Simon, The Doctor and Rose (or almost any other of his companions, really), Aragorn and Eowin. No examples in prose come to mind; I must be reading the right kind of books.)
Warmup #20
800 word challenge:
Finish this short story: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (No further quoting from A Tale of Two Cities permitted.)
Warmup #19
800 word challenge:
Make an argument in favor of something horrible (genocide), or against something wonderful (kittens).
Obviously, you don’t need to choose genocide or kittens. I’ll leave it up to your personal preference, but remember that kittens rock.