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Original posting 13 April 2009

Writer's Digest, August 2008, page 14 offers this writing prompt:
"Work the following elements into a single scene: a frightened animal, a civic leader, and a small audience." From the Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood.
Take a moment and list 10 animals -- and what frightened them? Then take another moment and list 10 civic leaders. What the heck, one more moment will get you a list of 10 small audiences. Now take a look at them and pick the animal, the leader, and the audience. Feel free to do some random combinations if you want to.

A frightened squirrel, the mayor of a small town, and the daughters of the American Revolution? What happens when they meet? Or what about...

Go ahead, write that scene.
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Original posting 5 April 2009

Remember Dr. Doolittle?

Writer's Digest, December 2007, page 21, offers the contest prompt:
"A dairy worker develops the uncanny ability to communicate with livestock." From the Writer's Book of Matches by the staff of fresh boiled peanuts, a literary journal.
If I could talk to the animals... what happens? Do cows really want to get up that early? And what do other people think about it?

Variations? Well, there are lots of people who work with animals. Or what about the Kansas farmer learning to listen to his crops? Heck, what happens when a laptop computer decides to answer the user that is complaining about how the computer made a mistake?

Just remember, you do the writing.

and babbling brooks or other voices in nature?

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