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I’m tired of being pushed around by these prompting bullies.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Happy birthday, Muhammad Ali!

Day Eleven: Make a Prompt Personal
Let’s get back to publishing, shall we?

Writing prompts can be a blogger’s best friend: when inspiration is low and fresh ideas few, responding to someone else’s question can do get you out of a slump.

Today’s assignment: publish a post based on your own, personalized take on a blogging prompt.

Why do this?

Learning to interpret prompts is an invaluable skill for when writers’ block hits.
The best way to become a better blogger is to blog — and prompts force you to do that.
Prompts work best when you personalize them to fit your interests and perspective. They’re not homework, they’re not mandatory, and they’re also flexible: prompts are just there to help you get blogging. To find our Daily Prompt, head to the The Daily Post — you’ll see the prompt in an orange box on the middle-right side of the screen.

Maybe you’ll know what you want to publish as soon as you read the prompt — great! If not, don’t abandon it. Just like you customize your theme to match your tastes and preferences, you can tweak prompts to fit your interests and blog.

Take this (terrible) prompt:

Two plus two equals four: yes or no?

Sure, you could just answer the question. You also could publish a post…

About why you love math.
Ranting about the technology behind solar calculators.
With photos of pairs of things.
Telling a story about how you met your best friend in 9th-grade algebra.
None of those posts answer the question; all of those posts respond to the prompt.
Today, practice turning a writing prompt into a post that fits seamlessly into your blog. Read today’s prompt, and interpret it. Focus on a particular word. Take a broad-brush view. Use it metaphorically. Find an alternate interpretation. Remember: We don’t want you to write about something that doesn’t fit on your blog. We do want you to think come up with your own take on the prompt, one that fits right in with everything you normally blog about.

You can also take a look at more than one prompt — just above the prompt, you’ll see “Try Another.” Click that to load a new prompt.

If the prompts still aren’t moving you, write about whatever thought popped into your mind when you first read it. Write about why you think the prompt is silly. For more, check out our tips on making prompts your own.

Don’t forget to add a link to the prompt to your post also called a “pingback”) to have your post listed with all the other responses to the prompt — or just click the “Respond in a new post” button on the prompt post to open a new draft on your blog with the pingback link already inserted. And of course, be sure to use the blogging101 tag.

(When you decide on a prompt to use, click on it and copy the direct link to the prompt and/or bookmark it — the link will come in handy tomorrow.)

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In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.’

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He was ordained in 1703, aged 25, and was soon nicknamed il Prete Rosso, “The Red Priest”.^[11] (Rosso is Italian for “red”, and would have referred to the color of his hair, a family trait.)

Not long after his ordination, in 1704, he was given a dispensation from celebrating Mass because of his ill health. Vivaldi only said Mass as a priest a few times and appeared to have withdrawn from priestly duties, though he remained a priest.

From Wikipedia online January 13, 2015

Antonio Vivaldi

KERRY: Ask for salsa recipes, I want every last one of them.

LAMIGRA: Salsa?

KERRY: Yeah, like Ketchup, only more salsa-ish. #MuySalsa!

[Mrs. Kerry puts her arm in the Secretary’s and they walked on together].

KERRY: Tomatoes are good for you! [he says, looking back at us over his free shoulder as we watch them fade into the sunset happily ever after].