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Writing Prompt #5
Describe your year 2023, or a moment in it, in 23 words exactly. Gotham Writers sponsors a contest for this every year. Here are samples from 2021: We stood in the yard smoking cigars while fireworks laced with Tio’s ashes burst over the neighborhood. — Amelia Rodriguez, Hamilton, NJ Guys in the meeting curse, Read more
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Writing Prompt #4
“No one had seen him enter the dark, smokey room filled with loud voices and laughter.” Read more
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Writing Prompt #3
Start a story with the sentence: “Wait, isn’t he supposed to be dead?” Feel free to change the pronoun to she, you, I or they. Suggestion: One paragraph, post your work as a comment. Scroll to “Leave a Reply.” Prompt #3: “Wait…” “Wait, isn’t he supposed to be dead? I mean, I know I haven’t Read more
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I’m so glad you came out. The basic idea for our time together is to support one another, share work for formative assessment, and hone our craft. Read more
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A Porch of Whittlers 
I am 70, a nurse by trade, an equestrian by passion and a lover of words and books. I have written since the terrible days of adolescence when words poured out as I tried to make sense of my changing world, my emerging self. In the beginning there was poetry. Lots of it. Later, after my son died, there was the book of his death – an outpouring of grief and hope. A chronicle of swirling emotions, poems, lyrics, quotes and a hope that it could be helpful to someone else who has lost a child. And now, I have a wish to write something for children that is affirming, possibly inspirational, maybe entertaining and decidedly inviting.
I have no formal training.
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