Fandango’s Provocative Question is a weekly writing opportunity to allow your mind to travel to unexplored area on argumentative intrigue and oppositional engagement.
This week’s PROVOCATIVE QUESTION …
What does the word “woke” mean to you? Is being “woke” a good thing or a bad thing? Do you consider yourself to be “woke”? Why or why not?
MY BRILLIANT ANSWER …
This is a GREAT question for conversations. I’m not going to try to answer this one in a blog.
Fandango’s Provocative Question is a weekly writing opportunity to allow your mind to travel to unexplored area on argumentative intrigue and oppositional engagement.
This week’s PROVOCATIVE QUESTION …
Are you planning to formally and officially register for this year’s A to Z Blogging Challenge, pick a theme, and participate? Why or why not?
Or, are you planning to informally and unofficially participate in this year’s A to Z Blogging Challenge on an ad hoc basis?
Or, are you going to skip the A to Z Challenge altogether?
MY BRILLIANT ANSWER …
Oh, my! It’s almost April!
I had forgotten all about it. I need to get thinkin’ and organized to come up with a theme. I missed it last year and hated not doing the challenge.
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TODAY’S QUESTIONS:
How important is the About page of your blog?
What constitutes the perfect About page?
How often do you think an About page needs to be updated, and when is the last time you updated yours’?
MY ANSWERS:
The ABOUT page doesn’t even exist on my blog… I have a blog attached to the top on my blogs page that serves as the About entry.
Any time I write a blog entry that is About Me I label the entry with an About Me tag.
Fandango’s Provocative Question is a weekly writing opportunity to allow your mind to travel to unexplored area on argumentative intrigue and oppositional engagement.
This week’s PROVOCATIVE QUESTION …
How do you feel about book publishers altering the language in classic books to “sanitize” them by eliminating or changing words, phrases, and sentiments that some readers might find upsetting? Is it wrong to rewrite the words of a published author, living or dead, without the author’s permission?
MY BRILLIANT ANSWER …
Please, just stop it. Read it. Don’t read it. Better yet… Teach context.
Blogging Insights hosted by Salted Caramel. Salted Caramel offers a quote-of-a-sort to respond to each week. If you enjoy wise sayings from others, check out her offerings.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Writing is always difficult, but easier with something to say. From “Bridge of Clay” by Marcus Zusak.
MY THOUGHTS:
Writing is always difficult for me… until I have the burning idea that just has to come out.
I use some of the same techniques that I taught my students to use in school to assist in discovering the burning ideas. One way I help myself get rid of being brain-dead is Brainstorming – coming us with different scenarios for my given problem.
Another solution is a spin-off of the 6-3-5 business brainstorming. I clarify the problem and then ask 6 different people creative solutions. I ask them to give me 3 answers each. Then I take the 18 possibilities and narrow down the choices to the 5 best ones. Usually, something clicks for me before I get to the last step.
A third way I beat being brain-dead is to start my story with a dialogue line and get the main characters talking. They often let me know what the storyline is supposed to be doing.
Each week Share Your World offers its followers FOUR intriguing questions for insightful responses.
It’s a great way to get to know other bloggers! You could give them a try!
THE FOUR INTRIGUING QUESTIONS
Did you attend Sunday School at your local church as a child?
Did you attend after school classes ie. drama, sports, as a teenager?
Did you go to evening classes after you had left school?
Do you now belong to any groups/meetings (ie WI, single (not dating), young Mums, slimming clubs, young wives, Men’s hobbies)
MY BRILLIANT ANSWERS
Did you attend Sunday School at your local church as a child?
Our family went almost every Sunday. We had a kid’s night on every other Sunday night. And, of course, Vacation Bible School.
Did you attend after school classes ie. drama, sports, as a teenager?
I was a songbird in my high school days. I was Oliver, in the musical Oliver.
I was Prince Dauntless in Once Upon A Mattress (the musical version of the fairytle The Princess adn the Pea). During this dance called the Spanish Panic our entire set of back curtians fell from the rafters and we had to finish opening night with only the front curtain.
I was Will Parker in Oklahoma. A lot of great memories.
Did you go to evening classes after you had left school?
I was in school from turning five-years-old in first grade to turning 60 after teaching middle school for 37+ years.
After school evenings were ALWAYS mind! Except the years that I coached baseball and basketball.
Do you now belong to any groups/meetings (ie WI, single (not dating), young Mums, slimming clubs, young wives, Men’s hobbies)
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