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Have you ever been put into an extreme situation where you had to make a difficult decision in order to survive?
He was the man who ate his shoes, and had been for twenty-three years, ever since he returned to England in 1822 after his first, failed overland expedition across northern Canada to find the North-West Passage. He remembered the sniggers and jokes upon his return. Franklin had eaten his shoes — and he’d eaten worse on that botched three-year journey, including tripe-de-roche, a disgusting gruel made from lichen scraped from rocks. Two years out and starving, he and his men — Franklin had dazedly divided his troop into three groups and left the other two bands to survive or die on their own — had boiled the uppers on their boots and shoes to survive. Sir John — he was just John then, he was knighted for incompetency after a later overland voyage and botched polar expedition by sea — had spent days in 1821 chewing on nothing more than scraps of untanned leather. His men had eaten their buffalo sleeping robes. Then some of them had moved on to other things. But he had never eaten another man. -Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel
Writing Prompt: Write about a character in a life and death situation. What does he or she do to survive?
Journaling Prompt: Have you ever been in a life or death situation? What did you do to survive? If you’ve never been in this kind of situation, write about one that you know about, either about someone you know or something you’ve seen on the news.
Art Prompt: Arctic Survival
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My college roommate, now a hot shot attorney, has always advised me that murder is not a good way to solve issues with people. Apparently, it’s too messy and there are legal ramifications. Well, she’s not a creative, or she would know that you can murder people every day without CSI showing up to investigate. You’ve just got to keep it on the page and not in real life.
“Murder is a bit of an extreme way to say ‘It’s over.’” -Joleene Naylor, 101 Tips for Traveling with a Vampire
Writing Prompt: Murder a character in your book. Go ahead. You know you want to.
Journaling Prompt: Who did you fantasize about murdering? You know, back in your younger and less enlightened days? What stopped you?
Art Prompt: Murder
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