Journal: Choose one of the following.
1. Write about a serious subject in a humorous way, dipping occasionally into seriousness as a contrast. If you’re feeling bold, push the tone to the extreme; risk offending the reader with your humorous treatment of a serious subject. (page 248 in The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron)
2. Give a character an object that she carries everywhere with her, or perhaps, something she always wears. Try to suggest through this object something important about the character. If the character wears a locket containing a picture of her family, what does this say about her? If the character keeps a picture in his wallet of a woman who left him long ago, what does this say about him? If a character always has a pocket knife with him, what does this say about him? If a person always has a bottle of Tylenol? (p. 240)
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