Monthly Archives: April, 2012

Prompt–Monday, April 30

NPR has Three Minute Fiction, which you can check out here: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/29/151647902/three-minute-fiction-update-judges-favorites What line would you be tired of after reading it 6,000 times? Write a sentence to begin a three-minute fiction, which is about 600 words. Then write the story. Some sentences to get you started if you’re stuck. The city is burning. She …

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The Letter Project–Letter to Whitney

In New Orleans I found one blue mailbox on the sidewalk, but I couldn’t remember where it was to send more letters. So fun fact: this is the only letter I postmarked from New Orleans, at least on this trip.  

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Prompt–Monday, April 23

Who is the owner? What’s his/her story? Why do does he/she only have one mug,  a spoon, and two knives? Write.  

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Four and Twenty Publication

Check out my poem “Venn Diagram” in Four and Twenty. http://4and20poetry.com/2012/04/17/april-2012-%e2%80%a2-volume-5-%e2%80%a2-issue-4-double-issue/

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Trip to New Orleans

I apologize for my hiatus. Last week I went to New Orleans for the American Copy Editor Society conference. I’ve never been to Louisiana or on a plane before. From top left clockwise: Klee by Donald Wigal; The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor; Collected Stories of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers; Louisiana Folktales: Lupin, Bouki, …

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The Letter Project–Letter to Theresa

Look at the letter I sent to Theresa about New Orleans.  

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The Letter Project–Letter from Whitney

This is what I received in the mail today.  

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Prompt–Monday, April 2

In a classroom you find an orange drawstring bag with a pair of shoes inside. When a shadow refuses to follow I leave my shoes behind and say no, I will not run another lap around the track or the pond in your backyard. These shoes ran too many laps in their lifetime. They asked, …

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