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writing prompts. “Selfish? Me? I chose you. I always choose you. I’m. still. choosing. YOU! I g
- “You cannot run from me. I made you,” MUSE A (villian) soothed. The MUSE B (hero) balked, like a frightened horse, all jerky limbs and anxiety. “You may have made me, but you haven’t kept me.” MUSE A looked disappointed, then, as if MUSE B was a petulant child. “A fact I hope to remedy.” MUSE B bared their teeth. “Keep hoping, then.” And MUSE B attempts to flee
- Exile” (featuring Bon Iver) — “You never gave a warning sign” / “I gave so many signs”
- Two voices compete in this song, telling stories that oppose one another. Can they both be right? This song explores the craft of the unreliable narrator. Think about a time in your life when you were at odds with someone you cared about. Maybe you did or said something fueled by emotion, and later your two versions of events didn’t line up. Were you right about what happened? If so, does that mean they were wrong? Write a passage in which you attempt to tell the story from their side. Speak back to their version using your own voice, telling your own side of the story.
- meeting your first heartbreak after healing.
- "Don't you get it by now? You do as I say." MUSE A said. "And what if I don't?" MUSE B glared at MUSE A with such rage. "I don't think I need to remind you, do I?" MUSE A said smirking down at MUSE B.
- “i f***ing told you i loved you!” MUSE A SCREAMED AT MUSE B. “you were drunk.”
- .“I want to end this.. thing we have.”
- “Selfish? Me? I chose you. I always choose you. I’m. still. choosing. YOU! I gave up everything and everyone I ever cared for because of you and you’re calling me selfish!?”
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