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Know your enemy if you want to defeat him. -Kate Elliott, Shadowgate
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story, scene, or poem about enemies.
Journaling Prompt: Imagine that one of your bad habits is your enemy. How much do you know about that bad habit? Is it enough to defeat it?
Art Prompt: Know your enemy.
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about how knowing your “enemy” can help your audience in their personal and professional lives.
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robbing Peter to pay Paul.
To use resources that legitimately belong to or are needed by one party in order to satisfy a legitimate need of another party, especially within the same organization or group; to solve a problem in a way that makes another problem worse, producing no net gain.
Fiction Writing Prompt: Use the word of the week in whatever you write today.
Journaling Prompt: Have you ever had to rob Peter to pay Paul? How did you come to that decision? How did it work out?
Art Prompt: Rob Peter to pay Paul
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Use the word of the week in your article or speech.
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A soulmate’s value can’t be measured in dollars and cents, unless you get divorced. -Joel Travis, Blabbermouth
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story about soulmates who get divorced.
Journaling Prompt: Write about your soulmate, whether you’ve met that person or not.
Art Prompt: Divorced soulmates
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about the concept of “soulmate” and whether you believe it’s a valid concept or not.
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We were getting nowhere talking about women. Both of us had plenty of education on the subject and neither had ever passed the course. It had not stopped us from continuing to enroll for more class work, semester after semester. -Eric Wilder, Big Easy
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a dialogue between two men trying to decipher the behavior of women.
Journaling Prompt: Write about any confusion you feel about how people of the opposite sex act.
Art Prompt: Gender Gap
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write a humorous piece about how difficult it is to understand the opposite sex. Include self-deprecating humor.
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boycott verb (used with object)
- to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion: to boycott a store.
- to abstain from buying or using: to boycott foreign products.
Fiction Writing Prompt: Use the word of the week in whatever you write today.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a boycott that you’ve participated in or a boycott that you wish someone would start.
Art Prompt: Boycott
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Use the word of the week in your article or speech.
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“Then, when the itch is gone, when the vendetta is ended and there’s no one left to hate anymore, there’s nothing left inside of you but this little dried up husk of what was once a soul. And then you die, Richard. Because you’ve become the hate, and when the hate dies there’s nothing left of you.” -David Brown, The Bet
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story, scene, or poem about the effects of hatred.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a time when you felt hatred and what happened when you held on to it.
Art Prompt: Hatred
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Inform your audience about the effects of hatred on the soul.
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Be careful whom you help, Sara. They never forgive you for it. – Consuelo Saah Baehr, Best Friends
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a scene inspired by this line.
Journaling Prompt: Write about an experience you had when someone you helped got angry with you for it.
Art Prompt: Ingratitude
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about the paradox of people being angry for receiving help.
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Arrogance is characterized by a pattern of behavior that demeans others in an attempt to prove competence and superiority. Silverman says this behavior is correlated with lower intelligence scores and lower self-esteem when compared to managers who are not arrogant.
…Silverman warns that “yes” replies to these other questions raise red flags and signal arrogance.
- Does your boss put his/her personal agenda ahead of the organization’s agenda?
- Does the boss discredit others’ ideas during meetings and often make them look bad?
- Does your boss reject constructive feedback?
- Does the boss exaggerate his/her superiority and make others feel inferior?
Left unchecked, arrogant leaders can be a destructive force within an organization… -Science Daily
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write about an arrogant boss through the eyes of a victim of his or her bullying.
Journaling Prompt: Write about the worst boss you have ever worked for.
Art Prompt: Arrogant Leader
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Inform your audience about how to recognize arrogant leaders and the devastation they create.
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…he held up the finished paper airplane. He went to the living room window, blew softly on the plane, and launched it out over the alley. “You thought I was joking, didn’t you?” he grinned.
“When you said you got messages by paper airplane? Of course I did.” The plane was a scrap of white, spiraling over the next roof in the updraft—and then it was gone. Not carried out of sight, but vanished between one moment and the next.
The phouka came and leaned on the other post of the doorframe, so that their hips barely brushed. “Of course, the very idea is a joke of sorts. We’re fond of children’s toys and games. The best of them have the power of symbol and ritual, polished and perfected through years of repetition.” -Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
Fiction Writing Prompt: Create a unique means of communication using toys and use it in a story or scene.
Journaling Prompt: What is your favorite magical being and why?
Art Prompt: Paper airplanes
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about the difficulties of communication that is not face to face. Give your audience information on how to avoid misunderstandings.
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Researchers wrote that “making amends can facilitative forgiveness, but not all amends can fully compensate for offenses.” Apology may be needed to repair damage fully, but it may be a “silent forgiveness,” while restitution without apology may lead to a “hollow forgiveness” in which the offenders are treated better but not necessarily forgiven.
“The results suggest that if transgressors seek both psychological and interpersonal forgiveness from their victims, they must pair their apologies with restitution,” they wrote. “Apparently, actions and words speak loudest in concert.” -Science Daily
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a scene between characters who have both offended against each other who struggle to find forgiveness.
Journaling Prompt: Write about your experience with forgiveness, apologies, and restitution.
Art Prompt: Forgiveness
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Inform your audience about how to apologize.
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