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Exercise #11: Question
Posted 7/11/03
We all have favorite quotes, favorite songs, favorite poems. Something about a line or two we hear or read just hits home and we remember it, or write it down and paste it on our bulletin board. The one- or two-liners find their way onto sticky notes stuck to the computer monitor, onto slips of paper tucked in our calendar, and into our signature files. We all have them. We hum along with them in the car, quote them for our friends or just admire that sticky note until the saying doesn't have the meaning it did and is replaced by another.
What is it about those lines that speaks to us?
One of my favorites was this one:
"When the water is clean, you see the bottom; when the water is dirty, you see yourself."
-- Steven Brust, Orca
And the time it hit home for me was the year I was baptized.
For this exercise, pick a favorite quote, or a line or two from a song or poem. Write about it. Tell us the story behind it or what it means to you. (Don't know the story behind it? Make one up! We're writers, after all.)
Word limit: 1200
Please use the subject line:
SUB: Exercise #11/yourname
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