Katrina emailed us the following "topics/prompts/themes to consider"--
- Something I never thought I could/would do...until I did
- Things I’m not afraid of anymore
- Favorite celebrations
- Friends who are like family
- Memorable experiences learning a new language
Add your own suggestions to the comments below.
Wendy shared this photo of one of her notebooks a while back
I have a file that has over 2000 writing topics. Here are a few of 'em...
ReplyDeleteFive Memories from the Dismal Mid-Eighties of Reagan
Simple pleasures
George Bush and the Diamond Sutra
Finkelstein’s prose limits: not enough playfulness, verve, imagination
Exploring Archilochus & Sappho
Go Greek!
I want to be published…
Goals after 50
On listening to Gorley’s poems 2 years after she recorded them
I can hear Mev’s voice anytime I want [on those microtape]
Take better care of my files
Book #3: I was part of that moment in history: ISM, 2003
Gotta know three other languages, according to Ol' Ez
Refuse to Be Burnt-Out
On Sitting in Yet Another Revolutionary Meeting
Revise Facebook exchanges for novel
Bibliophilia, Poverty, and a Whole New Solution
Your Professor’s Heart is Breaking (And You’ll Never Know)
Anti-Semitic Checklist [You’re studying Arabic! I knew it, why don’t you learn Hebrew?]
Opening Lines for a Rant against Rachel Corrie [Thank you Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, et al.: Who the fuck did she think she was?]
Questions after a Third Reading of Sister True Emptiness
The Sixties: it was the music, first, foremost, and last, still today to hear (I Can’t get No ) Satisfaction…. 40 lines like that, Michael Albert, without the Vietnam]
Poem for Aunt Leah
Poems on Steve Kelly as Christ Luftmensch
Thank You, Fernando Pessoa, for Showing Me The Way