Monday, December 14, 2020

Add Topics Here [by Mark]

 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

1 comment:

  1. I have a file that has over 2000 writing topics. Here are a few of 'em...

    Five 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

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