A Big Day, January 20, 2009

January 20, 2009

Prompt: Write about how you’re spending Inauguration Day and any thoughts you have about past inaugurations.

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Everyone is . . . January 19, 2009

January 19, 2009

Prompt: Everyone is Afraid of Something.What scares you?

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Mothers and Daughters and, January 18, 2009

January 18, 2009

Prompt: Write about mothers and daughters or fathers and sons. We’re all at least one of these.

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In the Bleak Mid-Winter, January 17, 2009

January 17, 2009

Prompt: In the bleak mid-winter In the bleak mid-winterfrosty winds made moanearth stood hard as ironwater like a stone . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ

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Not Quite, January 16, 2009

January 16, 2009

Prompt: Almost

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An unusual friendship, January 15, 2009

January 15, 2009

Prompt: Write about an unusual friendship. Oh, and watch this clip first.

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First lines of novels and stories, January 14, 2009

January 14, 2009

Prompt: I had been sick for a long time. (This is the first sentence of Oracle Night: A Novel by Paul Auster. First lines often make great prompts. Anybody want to send one? And this is a novel about a writer and writing.

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The Company You Keep, January 13, 2009

January 13, 2009

Prompt: Write about being in the company of women.

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A Question, January 12, 2009

January 12, 2009

Prompt: What’s hidden . . . and where?

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Too Early, January 11, 2009

January 11, 2009

Prompt: Write about a time when you had to rise early or arrived early. What does early mean to you? This prompt is dedicated to Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, who was born on this day in 1887, in Burlington, Iowa. Leopold dropped dead of a heart attack fighting a neighbor’s grass […]

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