This Is How a Man Dies, This is How a Man Lives

76 Year Old Holocaust Survivor & Virginia Tech Professor gave his life to defend his students, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266506,00.html

This is how a man lives.

An Exercise for Fellow Creative Writers

As a writer it is important to develop a comfort with presenting your material to the public, and to receiving a diverse array of reactions, from positive and welcoming, to negative and rejecting, to confused and misunderstanding.
One way of doing this is to simply start sharing your work with others - Workshop format classes and programs are an excellent method for doing this, as they force you to share with others in order to participate.
I however had occasion to find a new method of putting oneself out there for review and reaction, with very personal matters involved or on the line.
Go to a dance, party, club, whatever, and start saying clever/stupid things to beautiful women (or men, as your tastes warrant). Be creative. You will, rest assured, get a good range of responses, some positive, some negative, and some confused.
Downing a large glass of artillerymans punch before hand may be in order - It was, afterall, how I came to develop this technique.