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Writing Prompt of the Week

The reasoning behind this week’s writing prompt is to force you to work outside of your comfort zone, quickly picking people, locations, and obstacles, and creating contexts on the fly, pushing your writing skills to their limits. In fact, if you’re feeling especially adventurous, you can ask a friend or fellow writer to pick the [...]

Writing Prompt of the Week

Have you ever sat for minutes or even hours on end, staring at your computer screen or notebook, trying to come up with the perfect idea for a story? Speaking for myself, this kind of inactivity usually results from two mistaken notions: one, that there is a perfect idea, and two, that the act of [...]

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    Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

    -Kurt Vonnegut

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