Look out your window or observe your surroundings and make a list of ten images. Choose the three that you find most compelling and freewrite about them, exploring any memories or associations they elicit. Put your freewriting exercise aside, and draft a poem that incorporates at least five of the images from your list.
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Choose one of your favorite classic books and make a brief outline of the plot. Write a story, set in the present, adapted from that classic story, using your outline and the classic book's main character to guide you. For example, write a version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre set in Los Angeles in 2013. Who would a contemporary Jane be? Under what circumstances would she go to live and work in the home of a widower? If she fell in love with him, what would happen?
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Creative Nonfiction Prompt
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Think about a choice you made in your life that led to specific consequences or outcomes. Explore the alternative reality that could have been if you'd made a different choice in an essay that begins If I hadn't...
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The Best Books for Writers
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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...
Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998) by Mary Oliver
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