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lil  ·  3932 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Every key on my ring lost its purpose

_refugee_ might be right about

    anyone with a working knowledge of literature
I'm amazed that there are so many of them out there and so many more without such knowledge.

The thing is this: People who become writers often have a lively knowledge of many written works. Those people also become screenwriters, TV writers, video game writers, 2nd life writers (does 2nd life have writers?) and so on. So we get scenes in movies like Magnolia where it suddenly starts raining frogs

and you know they've got to be referring to something Biblical.

I had never read the New Testament, any of it, ever. I'd never even been to a church where they read from it. When I was studying literature back in the day, I realized that other students seemed to catch on to things that I was missing, so I had to do some catching up.

Time for a new writing prompt soon, but so glad these last two pieces, yours and istara's came down when they did.