The Notebooking Daily 2020 Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts take the impetus—that initial crystal of creation—out of your hands (for the most part) and changes your writing creation into creative problem solving. Instead of being preoccupied with the question "What do I write" you are instead pondering "How do I make this work?" And in the process you are producing new writing.
These exercises are not meant to be a standard writing session. They are meant to be productive and to keep your brain thinking about using language to solve simple or complex problems. The worst thing you can do is sit there inactive. It's like taking a 5 minute breather in the middle of a spin class—the point is to push, to produce something, however imperfect. If you don't overthink them, you will be able to complete all of the exercises in under 30 minutes.
#58Between a Fact and an Exact Place 7
- Exact Place: Brutalist Park Monument of the Bulgarian-Russian Friendship in Varna, Bulgaria
- Fact: A lifelong proponent of swimming, Benjamin Franklin is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
As an additional assignment, should you choose to incorporate it, is as follows: Also include an animal 'dancing' whether this is a mating dance, some choreographed attack or struggle for dominance, a Disney-like actual dance, a trained animal, however you choose to interpret that prompt.
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If you'd like some background music to write to, try pan flautist Zamfir's Greatest Hits. You may think that you recognize that first song from the end of Kill Bill 1, and yep. That's the one.
