{"id":1309,"date":"2017-04-28T19:27:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewritersscrapbin.com\/staging\/7882\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-05-05T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T02:43:52","slug":"nearest-book-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewritersscrapbin.com\/staging\/7882\/nearest-book-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun-Day Writing Prompt: Nearest Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better late than never! Here&#8217;s a Friday Fun-Day writing prompt to help get your weekend rolling. It&#8217;s a variation on an oldie but a good: taking a line from the nearest book.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how this version goes:<\/p>\n<p>Grab the closest book you can find. Open to a random page in the middle of the book. Take the first line of the first full paragraph on that page and the first line of the last full paragraph. These will be your opening and closing lines, in that order. Now, write a story in 700 words or less using these lines to start and end your story.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest book can be anything: an encyclopedia, a biography, <em>1984<\/em>, whatever. There are no restrictions except that the page must be random, you must use those particular lines for your first and last lines, and it must be 700 words or less. Otherwise, have fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to share the lines you got, an excerpt from the story, etc. in the comments. And if you want to suggest a writing prompt, please mention it in the comments or email me at thewritersscrapbin@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, wonderful writers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewritersscrapbin.com\/staging\/7882\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewritersscrapbin.com\/staging\/7882\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo.jpg?resize=159%2C140\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"140\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Designed by Stephanie Hoogstad circa 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better late than never! Here&#8217;s a Friday Fun-Day writing prompt to help get your weekend rolling. It&#8217;s a variation on an oldie but a good: taking a line from the nearest book. Here&#8217;s how this version goes: Grab the closest book you can find. 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