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Prompt–Sunday, March 25

Put something on your hands and go about your normal day. Like a sticker or ink from a fountain pen. Write about it. Fingers can wear cloaks to protect them from cold with the palm as a hat keeping out the breeze. I look down and see there’s spilled ink in the streets, tears for …

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Prompt–Monday, March 19

Embarrassment. Fear. Something. Using these three words, write. A skirt hitched too high lets in a breeze for all to see a white slip and bare legs.

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Writing Goals

It’s always good to have some kind of goal in mind. Mine usually take the shape of long lists on my computer. Feeling creative enough to use glue, I made a poster with all of my writing/reading/translating goals and hung it near my writing space. So I can look at it but not let it …

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Grow as a Writer

Today I found seven old short stories and reread them. It was interesting to see my growth from fall 2009 to fall 2010. I cringed at one I wrote in fall 2009. Never will I mention that story again except as an example of how not to write a short story. And I noticed a …

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Poetry versus Fiction

Whew. That was a long week. Yesterday I researched several literary magazines for submitting my work. If you aren’t already familiar with http://www.duotrope.com, you should definitely check them out as a source to help you discover markets for your work. They have been immensely helpful with my journey to navigate the Internet and find magazines. …

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