Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week #53: Write about manipulation. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100 and will be placed first on our Spotlight page and the runner-up will receive 1000 coins. When sharing to social media, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge #getlit #itslit
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Love and Responsibility
To manipulate is to "handle skillfully by hand." Manipulation is reserved for tools--objects made by man for his use. Manipulation implies a relationship, a one-sided bond of utility. It is the basis of the master-craft relation. The user manipulates the used in a way that is advantageous to the user. Manipulation is at once skillful and destructive, wearing down the used object to its nub and ultimately destroying it for the ends of building, constructing or creating. An artist manipulates his paints and brush, a writer her pen and ink, and hatred his humanity.