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 THE TIME IS NOW          OCTOBER 20, 2011  
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Welcome to The Time Is Now, your weekly poetry and fiction prompts to keep you writing all year long.   

POETRY PROMPT
Compose a poem of five stanzas with four lines each. Use five of the following words: promenade, mettle, flap, azimuth, arbor, heap, mast, foxgrape. Write the final line of the poem using words whose vowel sounds contain a, e, i, o, u, in that order (for example, "The stay between window and room").

FICTION PROMPT
Pick a short story by another writer and use its ending as the beginning for a new story of your own.

THE BEST BOOKS FOR WRITERS
Each week we recommend a book--a newly published title or an invaluable classic--that will help you on your writing journey. This week's pick:

Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet (W. W. Norton, 1993) Rainer Maria Rilke 
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