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  • Writing

    52 writing prompts in 2017: Week 2

    January 11, 2017 / No Comments

    I need writing prompts. I am planning to write 52 short stories this year. A short story per week. Some will be terrible. A few won’t be. But the more I write, the better I will be at crafting a short story. There’s 52 weeks worth of writing prompts for those of you who also want to write short or long pieces and are struggling. Use them as themes/first lines/plot points/endings. It is up to you. Leave a comment if you end up using any of these and if you are feeling up to it, please share so we can read your awesome work too. And if you have a…

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    52 weeks of writing prompts

    January 4, 2017 / No Comments

    I need writing prompts. I am planning to write 52 short stories this year. A short story per week. Some will be terrible. A few won’t be. But the more I write, the better I will be at crafting a short story. I used to love writing short stories during English Essay periods in school. We had half an hour and a teacher would pick a topic or give us a few to choose from. You could write an essay but I chose to write a story for most of them. Somewhere along the line I lost that. Perhaps I need the blackboard and the list of topics. Prompts. So…

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