Did it again

Well once again am playing catch up after a hectic day yesterday.
Nov. 19: "Never Forget"
In the reading for this day Mr. White talks about not forgetting certain unsavory events in human history like the Cherokee trail of tears, the early injustices of the civil rights movement, slavery, or the Holocausts. However even though these events should never be forgotten they are not easy topics to write about. It is difficult to try to depict man's inhumanity toward men without becoming, as Mr. White describes it, "bathos and melodramatic".
In "For Further Reflection"
He writes that because it is so difficult to right about these atrocities that what we as writers need to do is to focus on only a minuscule portion of the whole. We should not according to White allow the subject matter to overwhelm any rational thesis we may be writing.
The "Try This" assignment is:
Write about a painful moment in history, say the persecution of Christians in the Roman arenas. Tell the story of the persecution from the point of view of a single person who is about to be thrown to the lions.

Nov. 20: Reading to Motivate Writing
In today's reading Fred White talks about how successful writers are avid readers. In fact he calls us "gluttons of reading" because of our facination with different ways of storytelling and using words to convey meaning. However, he urges us to hone this skill by reading outside of our normal genre because we can learn much about storytelling, writing styles, and "worldviews that are different from our own."
"For Further Reflection"
In this segment White talks about how reading can be a way of overcoming writer's block and "to rekindle the writing flame," because it is a way of indulging ourselves in the "pleasure that make us want to become writers in the first place."
Today's "Try This" Assignment is:
1. Pick up a book or magazine and, with pen and paper within easy reach, begin reading one of its stories or articles. Your aim here is to be on the alert for whatever it is in the piece of writing that triggers an idea, however vague. As soon as it comes, stop reading and jot it down.
2. Go over the notes you've taken for number one, and select one of them to work into a story or essay.
Actually I have done this in preparation for an article that I am working for my examiner.com page. I may also write it from a different perspective to Hub pages. In fact there are several that I am working on that I have sort of done this with.