It’s the feast Day of St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary. Happy Grandmothers’ Day? Could be.
Discuss any aspect of families, feasts, or holiness that you wish.
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Writing Prompt 7/24/2011
What exactly are the dog days of summer?
Define and then depart.
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Writing Prompt 6/28/2011
Today started out like any other day. You woke up, took care of toilet things and dressed.
Then you went to the refrigerator to start making your breakfast and that’s when you noticed that all of the wallpaper was missing. It had been ripped off in the night by a band of mice.
What do you do?
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Writing Prompt 6/21/11
Two topics. See if you can combine them.
1) Summer. How will this one be the best ever?
2) Found this quote. Do something with it.
“This life is collected in things we put in our pockets, and people we could have married.”
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Writing Prompt 6/1/2011
Identify your most unloved possession.
How did you acquire this item?
Why did you think you needed it?
How did it disappoint you?
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Writing Prompt 5/31/2011
Imagine just one reader, someone who will read your words with enthusiasm and good will. Write for that reader today.
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Scholarship Money Needed
The director has set a goal of raising $3,500, to go directly to scholarships for the CWC summer camp. 10 full scholarship and 20 half scholarships. People are asking for assistance. Please help me help them have a writing experience they will never forget.
Charlottesville Writing Center
cvillewriter@mac.com
434-293-3702
http://cvillewrites.org
Writing Prompt 5/19/2011
For Heaven’s sake, just write it!
1) That thing you don’t want anyone to know about;
2) That letter, note, email, card, check, invoice;
3) That thing you Really Want to Write.
Good luck!
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Writing Prompt 4/28/2011 – Act of Nature
Write the story of a natural disaster from the point of view of the “Act of Nature.”
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Today is National Poetry Month’s “Poem in Your Pocket Day.”
Here is a link to a whole bunch of poems that you can pick from to print, cut and put in your pocket.
Or, you can write your own!
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406
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