Week Eight Writing Prompt

Week Eight Writing Prompt

This week, I’m giving you three different options to choose from. Whichever of the three you choose, I’d like you to write at least 500 words you can turn into me by the end of the week. As you’re writing, think about the “small subject” and the “large subject,” and how you can use one to get to the other.
You can also revisit your “Master List” from last week to help you find stuff to write about.
Prompt options:
1. Explore your relationship to a piece of pop culture. That could be a movie, a director, an author, a particular work of art, an album or a song, etc. Choose something you’re obsessed with, or have spent a lot of time with. Through your writing, try to figure out why you connected so strongly to that thing. And try to connect it to some “large subject” in your life.
2. Write about a place, like Andrea Kleine does in one of this week’s readings. It could be a specific apartment, or a specific room. It could be a neighborhood, or a block. But again, the goal is to use that place to say something larger about yourself, or your community.
3. Write about a time you felt out of place, like Lefkowicz often does in her essay, “The Gifted Classes.”

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