Steal from the real to get your pen moving
WRITING PROMPT: Steal From the RealFeel free to take the following prompt home or post your response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below….
WRITING PROMPT: Steal From the Real
Feel
free to take the following prompt home or post your
response (500
words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below.
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Take something you’ve learned in the past week — a fact about someone, a bit of info on the news, a life lesson, etc. — and write a scene revealing what it really means to you or one of your characters, in a method of your choosing. (A personal essay? A fictionalized scene? A hybrid?)
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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.