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Write about the first letter, word, sentence, or story ever written down.

“It’s always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”

“A week after his wife died, my father wrote the first piece of writing he’d written in thirty-five years. As in, he hadn’t written letters, e-mails, journals, anything but grocery lists and reminders. Knowing this, his wife wrote her own eulogy, and a Death Letter (she’d been terminally ill for a while, so she’d prepared …

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Write a poem based around a completely fictional fact or set of facts about an animal.

Write a poem about the death of a dog.

Write about a creepy or disturbing video or book about animals; pick something true (i.e. the Thirty Hornets vs. Thirty Thousand Bees video on Youtube).

Write about a time you were picked last.