DGI instructor, Georgia Stitt:
Here’s a prompt that I had to tackle in graduate school that I haven’t stopped thinking about since:
Write about the first moment in your life when you became aware of politics.
When I thought about it, my first impulse was to try to recall which presidential election was the earliest I remember caring about, but what I actually wrote about was a student council election in high school. I ran for some office and my opponent was the captain of the football team. I made a speech with all of my big thoughts and ambitions about what I would do if I got elected, and then he stood up after me and said, “GO TEAM!!” He won.
Maybe you’re writing a scene or a song, or maybe this is the first step towards a whole play.
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