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Monday Matchup Writing Challenge: Get your favorite song lyrics out…

Here’s a bit of a different spin on our usual Matchup today …WRITING PROMPT:Monday Matchup #7—Tunes As MuseFeel free to take the following prompt home or post a response (500…

Zachary Petit
Zachary Petit

Here’s a bit of a different spin on our usual Matchup today ...

WRITING PROMPT:Monday Matchup #7—Tunes As Muse
Feel free to take the following prompt home or post a
response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below.
By posting, you’ll be automatically entered in our
occasional around-the-office swag drawings.
If
you’re having trouble with the
captcha code sticking, e-mail your piece and the prompt to me at
writersdigest@fwmedia.com, with “Promptly” in the subject line, and I’ll
make sure it gets up.

Take two of your favorite songs, and match up a line from the chorus of
one with a line from the chorus of the other. Then, write a scene that
starts with the first lyric, and ends with the second.

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Want more writing prompts and exercises? Brian Kiteley has packed more than 200 wildly original ones into his 3 A.M. Epiphany. Check it out here.


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Zachary Petit is a freelance journalist and editor, and a lifelong literary and design nerd. He's also a former senior managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine. Follow him on Twitter @ZacharyPetit.

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