The Time Is Now...here's your weekly poetry and fiction prompts to keep you writing all year long. Let's get to it!
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POETRY PROMPT
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The late English poet Philip Larkin was born eighty-nine years ago this month. Begin a poem using the first lines of Larkin's oft-studied poem "Church Going," from The Less Deceived (Marvell Press, 1955): "Once I am sure there's nothing going on / I step inside, letting the door thud shut."
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FICTION PROMPT
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Go for a walk, paying careful attention to your surroundings, until you find something that doesn't belong. It could be a piece of garbage on the street, a coin, an animal, a car battery in the woods, anything out of place. Tell the story of how it got there.
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THE BEST BOOKS FOR WRITERS
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Each week we recommend a book--a newly published title or an invaluable classic--that will help you on your writing journey. This week's pick:
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