Writing Prompt: Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"-Updated December 15, 2013

Writing Prompt: Listen to Christopher Walken reading Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." 

Now, see if you can create a repeating line which you would then use in your own poem or short story to create the same type of SPOOKY, CHILLING effect that Poe has created in his poem, "The Raven."

Image Credit: The Library of Congress

Other Raven Interpretations:

"The Raven: Lou Reed’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Italian Artist Lorenzo Mattotti" by Maria Popova:  Click Here

A graphic novel "meant to be heard in the mind."



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Writing Prompt: What Would You Do If Money Were No Object? Alan Watts on the Life of Purpose

Image Credit:  The Way of Zen

"One key question for breaking free of consumer culture’s hamster wheel."

Watch the remixed video entitled “What Would You Do if Money Were No Object” which takes Alan Watts' (1915-1973), the British philosopher and writer of the cult-classic The Way of Zen, ideas and remixes them into a short video which Brain Pickings summed up as a video where, "...Watts asks the seemingly simple question of what you would do if money were no object."

After viewing the film read the following quote:

"If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don’t like doing — which is stupid!"

Do you agree with the statement or disagree with the statement?  Why or why not?  Don't forget, a minimum of five sentences is required.  Start Scribbling!

Additional Resource:

How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love: Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends.

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Writing Prompt: A Message for Mankind Delivered by Charlie Chaplin

Image Credit:  Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator 

“We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery.”

Watch the remixed video entitled “A Message for Mankind” which is described by Brain Pickings as "...a stirring mashup of Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech from The Great Dictator and scenes of humanity’s most tragic and most hopeful moments in recent history, spanning everything from space exploration to the Occupy protests, with an appropriately epic score by Hans Zimmer."

After viewing the video, write at least five sentences sharing your reaction to the film.  Include in your answer what you think the message or theme of the film might be?  Start Scribbling!

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