The Soldier
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November 2007
I just had a nephew graduate from Marine Corps boot camp (he looks so handsome in his uniform) so I am going to celebrate by giving a prompt on soldiers.
How could you work a soldier into your writing? An old photograph? Someone thinking about their father/mother/grandparent that was a soldier? Someone thinking about enlisting, or someone that is just getting out of the military?
It does not have to be the Marines, any branch of the military works (shoot, I have Army, Air Force and Marine Corps just in my immediate family), it can even be a unknown military so use your imagination. Is it a pair of boys pretending they are soldiers? Is that alien that survived the crash at Roswell a soldier in an alien army?
That should be enough to get you going, so get going, there’s a lot to write this month!
