Write about the first letter, word, sentence, or story ever written down.
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Tips from the Bar: the Jonathan Safran Foer Prompt
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January 3, 2011
“It’s always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
Tips from the Bar: the Corine Hat Prompt
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January 3, 2011
“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 …
Tips from the Bar: the Christian Drake Prompt
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January 3, 2011
Write a poem based around a completely fictional fact or set of facts about an animal.
Tips from the Bar: Team Feelings Goes In
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January 3, 2011
Write a poem about the death of a dog.
Tips from the Bar: the ManchVegas Prompt
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January 3, 2011
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).
Tips from the Bar: Captain Your Own Damn Kickball Team
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January 3, 2011
Write about a time you were picked last.
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