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More Pre-Writing While lists and cluster maps are always a good place to start, there are other pre-writing strategies that inspire good writing about personal experience. Often, these warm-up techniques are part of the assignment itself. Consider the following prompts, all topics taken from a variety of high school and college introduction essays. 1. Consider the following quotation: “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Write about a time in your life when you learned what that quotation meant. It does not need to be romantic love that you write about. It could. | More Pre-Writing While lists and cluster maps are always a good place to start there are other pre-writing strategies that inspire good writing about personal experience. Often these warm-up techniques are part of the assignment itself. Consider the following prompts all topics taken from a variety of high school and college introduction essays. 1. Consider the following quotation It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Write about a time in your life when you learned what that quotation meant. It does not need to be romantic love that you write about. It could mean platonic love or a familial relationship. 2. React to the following bumper sticker by telling about a time in your life when it proved true Animals are man s best friends. 3. Movies and books often talk about the importance of loyalty and friendship. Tell about a time in your life when friendship proved to be of great importance to you. 4. Martin Luther King Jr. said that he wished for the day when his children would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Tell about a time in your life when the content of your character was tested. 5. The way a person handles disappointment tells a great deal about what is important to him or her. Tell about a time in your life when you confronted disappointment and learned from it. You will notice that the prompts themselves provide the direction that you must take in deciding what to write about. Each one provides the theme for your story. Remember that theme is the main idea you will be discussing. To answer the first question you will be writing about your feelings concerning love. You will have to think about a time in your life that tells why you either agree or disagree with the statement. To answer the second question your theme is your opinion about animals. Do you agree that they are worthy friends To answer the third question your theme is loyalty and friendship. Can you think of a time in
