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First This, Then That

poem — A paradoxical world.

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The Footnote

CREATIVE NONFICTION — Voice of intrusion.

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Your World in Three Senses

Description — Transport us there.

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A History of Everything, Including You

Flash Fiction — Four billion years in four hundred words (or less).

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Talking to “You”

PERSPECTIVE — Writing in the second person.

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Place Poem

INVENTORY — Capture a place in list form.

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YOU, The Writer

MAP — What happens when you sit down to write?

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Re-Search

REFLECTION — Look again in order to see anew.

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Pandemic Tunes

SELECTION — Music as muse.

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Once Upon a Time

fairy tale — Use the classic form to write an original story.

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Oral Histories

TRANSCRIPTION — Preserve your family’s stories.

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The World's Writer

Poem — Finding new voices.

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July Grab Bag

PROMPTS — By WtW Writers

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Dust Jacket

INTRODUCTIONS — About you.

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