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writing prompts

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December 6, 2024
Writing with Friends: The Surrealist Q & A Game, 2024 Edition
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January 5, 2024
Writing Prompt (with Friends): The Surrealist Q & A Game
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March 3, 2021
Writing Prompt: National Grammar Day
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February 25, 2021
Writing Prompt: A Renga for Connection
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A white coffee mug with the word "Begin" on its side sitting on a wooden table.
December 17, 2020
Looking Back, Looking Forward
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November 12, 2020
Found Poetry Inspired by Bea Nettles
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An image of a man and a woman dancing. The outline of the woman's body is traced using handwritten words.
November 5, 2020
Writing Prompt: Concrete Poetry
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A space shuttler orbiter silhouetted against bands of black, orange, white, and blue.
October 15, 2020
Journeying to Space on Words
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Excerpt from Joe Brainard's poem "I Remember"
August 27, 2020
Writing Prompt: I Remember
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Jane Wong's Impossible Map partially unfolded
August 12, 2020
Jane Wong's Impossible Map as Inspiration
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April 16, 2020
Write Your Way to Mars
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