Author: Charlottesville Writing Center

Charlottesville and central Virginia's most celebrated writing resource center. Founded in 1996, the CWC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that continually raises the bar for community stewardship in art and education every day.

Back to School Writing Prep –It’s a good idea

Sign up NOW. Session starts on August 8. Monday through Friday (Aug 12) 9 am til noon. The goal for the week is to write an essay. That’s it. Get the thinking and writer muscles working together in a low-impact, non-graded atmosphere. Students are invited to write about anything they want — just create and support an argument with a little bit of research. Presto: ready for school. Parents: it’s $175.00 for the session. We will meet downtown.

Writing Prompt 7/27/11

Here are eight words. Use them in any declension, in a short piece or prose or verse of no more than 80 words total.

bench, formula, grace, pocket, can, tube, apple, peony

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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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