This Week’s Prompts*

1. Dimples had always been her downfall.

2. “Four nights. Four nights I’ve been calling and four nights you haven’t picked up. So, yes: Hello. And now, goodbye.”

3. Mrs. Jackson was just at the end of her driveway, backing over that seam in the asphalt those crooks had left her with, when she felt another unusual bump under her tires.

4. Describe yourself on your very first day of school from your new teacher’s perspective.

5. Look around you and find three words from three different places. Use those words in a sentence and use that sentence to start today’s writing.

6. Suddenly he was…buoyant. Light and floating, drifting on the breeze like a bubble or a puff of smoke.

7. “Well, see, now, there’s nothin’ really wrong with me that a little of this won’t fix right up.” He looked me straight in the eye, winked, and then grabbed it out of my hand.

*How to Use These Prompts: The italicized prompts let you create your writing entirely from scratch; the non-italicized prompts are intended as your first line and jumping off point. But, at the same time, there are no rules. Write on!

Book(s) We’re Reading This Week

Mr Flood’s Last Resort by Jess Kidd
In eager anticipation of her next book coming out in April, I’m making my way through the one or two I hadn’t yet read. This one mixes a mystery, visions of hapless saints, and a cantankerous old man who grows on you but maybe very much shouldn’t. It’s all I can do not to cancel everything and finish it right now.

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Top (Published) First Line of the Week

It would have been nutritive gel for dinner, same as always, if I had not discovered stuck to my apartment’s front door a paper menu advertising the newly expanded delivery service of a neighborhood restaurant.

From Sourdough: A Novel by Robin Sloan

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P.S.

Did you know that Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, that cheery little mascot of the season, was created by a copywriter? Just think of what you could do. Check out this training about copywriting and get a sense of there’s a classic in your future, too.