For June’s 30/30 I’ve been allocated the Friday prompts, which is handy as it’s the day I normally post my weekly prompts here: synergy is all :)
Today’s prompt was triggered by a sentence in the novel I’ve just finished reading, Nick Hornby’s ‘A Long Way Down’ (Penguin, 2006):
“She smiled the whole time we were speaking, but it was as if she’d only discovered smiling that afternoon.” (p. 222)
Then, in another act of synergy, I came across this video:
A robot that’s learning to smile. MIT Technology Review, 13 July 2009.
So, I thought it would be good to write about smiling, or learning to smile - from the Hornby quote, from the robot video or from the beautiful lady in the photo.
Image: Sukanto Debnath (Creative Commons: some rights reserved)

For June’s 30/30 I’ve been allocated the Friday prompts, which is handy as it’s the day I normally post my weekly prompts here: synergy is all :)

Today’s prompt was triggered by a sentence in the novel I’ve just finished reading, Nick Hornby’s ‘A Long Way Down’ (Penguin, 2006):

“She smiled the whole time we were speaking, but it was as if she’d only discovered smiling that afternoon.” (p. 222)

Then, in another act of synergy, I came across this video:

A robot that’s learning to smile. MIT Technology Review, 13 July 2009.

So, I thought it would be good to write about smiling, or learning to smile - from the Hornby quote, from the robot video or from the beautiful lady in the photo.

Image: Sukanto Debnath (Creative Commons: some rights reserved)

For June’s 30/30 I’ve been allocated the Friday prompts, which is handy as it’s the day I normally post my weekly prompts here: synergy is all :)
Today’s prompt was triggered by a sentence in the novel I’ve just finished reading, Nick Hornby’s ‘A Long Way Down’ (Penguin, 2006):
“She smiled the whole time we were speaking, but it was as if she’d only discovered smiling that afternoon.” (p. 222)
Then, in another act of synergy, I came across this video:
A robot that’s learning to smile. MIT Technology Review, 13 July 2009.
So, I thought it would be good to write about smiling, or learning to smile - from the Hornby quote, from the robot video or from the beautiful lady in the photo.
Image: Sukanto Debnath (Creative Commons: some rights reserved)

For June’s 30/30 I’ve been allocated the Friday prompts, which is handy as it’s the day I normally post my weekly prompts here: synergy is all :)

Today’s prompt was triggered by a sentence in the novel I’ve just finished reading, Nick Hornby’s ‘A Long Way Down’ (Penguin, 2006):

“She smiled the whole time we were speaking, but it was as if she’d only discovered smiling that afternoon.” (p. 222)

Then, in another act of synergy, I came across this video:

A robot that’s learning to smile. MIT Technology Review, 13 July 2009.

So, I thought it would be good to write about smiling, or learning to smile - from the Hornby quote, from the robot video or from the beautiful lady in the photo.

Image: Sukanto Debnath (Creative Commons: some rights reserved)

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Writing exercises and prompts based on special collections and their websites.

Originally conceived as a workshop for Essex Poetry Festival 2008.

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