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Creative Emphasis

Source date: 2021-02-051 min readComplete text

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[WP] Teacher was vexed. "Why are all of your creative assignments about every day lives of superheroes & supervillains, humans as Gods or Angels or the Devil or science-fiction stories about humans as aliens to aliens?" Billy quietly said "... Miss, shouldn't we write about what we know?"
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THE MOMENT

Creative Emphasis

The teacher sighed and shook her head.

"Billy, we've talked about this," she said.

"I'll say it again, like I have before.

YES. Start with what you know, but add more."

Aliens, angels, heroes, villains and gods?

There's nothing about that that's odd.

It's not special, interesting, nor new.

This is so boring, it's almost a sedative.

It's like watching the news.

Pay attention to the keyword: CREATIVE."

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