Blog Prompts 1101

Andrea Jurjević

ENGL 1102

Spring 2015

Blog Prompts

Posts needs to be 200-500 words long; they need to be grammatically correct, and they need to be posted by 5 p.m. on the due dates. Follow the directions carefully, and composing creative, smart and good quality texts (revise and proofread carefully before you post).

1. Due Jan. 23 – Object Love

Choose any two objects around you (towel, TV, dresser, vase of flowers, dropped shirt). The first object is in love with the second object. Write about that love. Maybe the shirt is longing to be reunited with the dresser. Or the TV is wildly flipping channels for the entertainment of the flowers. Invest these ordinary objects with human feelings, and let your imagination create their world. Remember to include the physical description as well as the emotional.

*From Kim Addonizzio’s Ordinary Genius

2. Due Jan. 30 – Barn Challenge

Describe a barn from the perspective of:

1. A man who has just committed a murder

2. A woman who has just lost her son in war

3. A man/woman who has just won the lottery

3. Due Feb. 6 –I’ve Come to Wish You . . .

Describe a birthday party from the point of view of someone who doesn’t like the birthday person.

4. Due Feb. 13 – Show, Don’t Tell

Your challenge: choose one word from the TANGIBLES list and one word from the INTANGIBLES list. Describe the tangible and, in doing so, capture the intangible emotion. Don’t tell a story about the tangible. Describe it.

TANGLIBLES (choose one): beer bottle, pencil, lawnmower, subway, jungle, bulldozer, moth wing, basketball, chainsaw, tricycle, sand castle, beehive, mosquito bite, glacier, acorn

INTANGIBLES (choose one): paranoia, shame, fear, creativity, courage, stupidity, mystery, ignorance, freedom, jealousy, lust, hope, trust, cowardice, loneliness

5. Due Feb. 20 – “To Be” Verb Elimination Challenge

Rewrite this paragraph so that it is free of all to...