Here are your first lines:

On the last day of August she had finally decided that she just did not like the light pink flowers on the crepe myrtles in her neighborhood. She liked the deep reds and when she was on the side of town where she had seen them in another neighborhood, she took a detour and drove their streets.

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Happy Monday writing friends!
The majority of the prompts that you receive come right from my head. Anything that doesn’t come from me will be sourced.

Write about a library that runs out of books, [or] a school that runs out of children, [or] a circus that runs out of animals. What on earth happened?

from The Pocket Muse 2, p.112 ( I added the “or”s)

Enjoy,
H

Happy Sunday!

1) choose an issue/situation that has been disturbing to you.

2) record on paper a conversation in which you and the disturbance figure out how to live with each other.

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Morning!

Use all of the following 8 words in a poem or story that has no more than 70 words, and no fewer than 50 words total. You can use the 8 words in any order.
You will see that they can be used as nouns, verbs, or adjectives. You may add suffixes like –ed, –ing.

chimney
forest
candlelight
fish
glass
honey
letter
tomato

PS: This is one of my favorite warm -up exercises. You will see this again. H

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Practice prompt before the prompt proper:

Write your life story in 6 words. Here is a famous example by Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Next, along the lines of the fictional town, Grover’s Corners created by Thornton Wilder in his play “Our Town,” write the 6 word life stories of 25 or 30 members residing in your fictional town. Name your town.

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