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stone pillar hallway

pillars image copyright Odysseus, flickr

This blog is the extension of the Squidoo lens The Write Prompts.

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pretty flower

yellow and white flower image copyright Louise Docker, flickr

Are you in control of your own mind? Watch this 8 minute video for cues that you may not. This week’s video clip provides excellent fodder for a fiction piece on mind control either from the controlled or the controller. Or a non-fiction piece on mind control in our daily lives.

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girl on steps image copyright Thai Jasmine, flickr

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girl eating cake

girl eating cake image copyright Jhayne, flickr

I love today’s clip. Actor and comedian John Cleese investigates the concept of laughter as medicine. Watch the 3.5 minute video. Pick one of the ideas and write a non-fiction piece from your point of view. For fiction, write about a man who doesn’t laugh, or a man who can’t stop laughing, or an angry woman who gets arrested for willful damage of property and the judge orders her to laughter therapy. The ideas are endless. Have a good laugh (then make someone else laugh!):

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dog with bone

dog with bone image copyright Kathleen Conklin, flickr

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girl spooked by butterfly on her nose

butterfly nose image copyright Kim Rose, flickr

The Dead Poet’s Society is one of my favorite movies. Its full of young actors who have made names for themselves in television and on the screen. And then there’s Robin Williams who totally goes against his comical roots. Watch the clip of this “Carpe Diem” scene and pick up on a cue to write from.

Some ideas: use one of the quotes; write about an inspiring teacher; write about a group of boys (or girls) influenced by a teacher; write about a ghost of a boy haunting the school (sorry, that one came to me while listening to Robin whisper at the end).

Have fun with it. Be as serious as this film or comical as Robin Williams on the loose.

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sleeping young swimmer image copyright Tommy Wong, flickr

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Solitary Confinement

fedora girl image copyright brandi, flickr

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double girl image copyright MonkeyMyshkin, flickr

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girl-at-window

girl at window image copyright D. Sharon Pruitt, flickr