This Week’s Prompts*

1. White, fluffy, a bit on the chubby side, and not a single mean bone in her body. What a pup.

2. Describe the smell of smoke and the last time you smelled it.

3. For the fourth time today, Carla crossed her fingers and, this time—thanks to open-toed shoes and a trick that had made her quickly popular in third grade and then, as things go with children, very unpopular—also crossed her toes.

4. What’s the first quote that come to mind from your favorite movie? Replace one work with “plastic” and then use that line to start your writing.

5. The rain had started quietly that day, making the transition from mist to droplets almost imperceptibly.

6. “Love me or leave me!” read the t-shirt I pulled out from the pile.

7. Corduroy marks criss-crossed his cheeks; it seems the professor had been sleeping at his desk again, using his arms to rest his head and marring his desk calendar with drool.

*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

The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald
This is a surprisingly upbeat, enjoyable, and, yes, funny memoir about spending a year in a tuberculosis sanatorium. I know: You weren’t expecting that sentence to end like that, were you? It’s an enjoyable read and a fascinating look at a little-mentioned time in American history.

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Top (Published) First Line of the Week

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

From The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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