The Fact Behind the Facts by Philip Gerard. In our Creative Writer's Handbook on p. 252+.
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/craft/craft_gerard_26.html
1. Write about meeting a famous person. Even if it was only a handshake in a crowd, put the event on the page. Freewrite or cluster to stir your memory of the meeting. Tell it as a narrative, step by step, including as many details as you can recall. If you want, take time to do a little research on the famous person. Expand your piece by adding this information to it. What did this meeting mean to you, if anything? How did the person measure up to your expectations?
2. I once dated someone whose brother told me, "Friends are just people who borrow things." I remember thinking how incredibly lonely the guy must feel or how friends in his past must have disappointed him. Begin a piece of writing with a sweeping assertion about the nature of friendship, then develop your statement or refute it or just go where it leads you.
The above prompts are from The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron, Writer's Digest Books, 2000.
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