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500 Words (Or More) Writing Prompt #34: Jigsaw Puzzle

by Promptly PortlandAugust 10, 2010
500 Words (Or More) Writing Prompt #34: Jigsaw Puzzle

Promptly Portland gets you thinking about ways that others can (and could) contribute to your writing.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #33: The Kaleidoscope

by Promptly PortlandAugust 3, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #33: The Kaleidoscope

This week, Promptly Portland suggests a way to examine your life from different perspectives. Have fun turning your memoir kaleidoscope.

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Writing, Reflecting, Recounting: Sharing Natalie Goldberg’s Perspective

by Matilda ButlerAugust 2, 2010
Writing, Reflecting, Recounting: Sharing Natalie Goldberg’s Perspective

In this writing tip video, Matilda shares insights from Natalie Goldberg’s book Old Friend from Far Away. If you find yourself caught up in too much recounting and not enough reflecting, then this video may help you.

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Memoir Writers, All Writers, Find Your “One True Sentence”

by Kendra BonnettJuly 19, 2010
Memoir Writers, All Writers, Find Your “One True Sentence”

This Writing in Five writing tip tells us to ever strive toward better, stronger, and simpler prose. Ernest Hemingway made this quest for One True Sentence his life’s journey; not a destination.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #30: Hemingway and Broken Bones

by Promptly PortlandJune 29, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #30: Hemingway and Broken Bones

Ernest Hemingway’s writing has given Promptly Portland a new writing prompt for us. This one causes us to look deeply at our own lives to discover places where there have been breaks and healing.

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Writing Tip: Advice on Finding the Start of Your Story from Elmore Leonard

by Matilda ButlerJune 28, 2010
Writing Tip: Advice on Finding the Start of Your Story from Elmore Leonard

In anticipation of our new book, Writing Alchemy, Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler are creating a series of writing tips called: Writing in Five. These videos cover many topics about writing from well-known authors. This time Elmore Leonard is our inspiration and the source of our writing tips on finding the start of your story.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #28: More on Pets, Part 2

by Promptly PortlandJune 15, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #28: More on Pets, Part 2

Promptly Portland gives us two writing prompts that relate to our pets and us. In this second of two pet prompts, Promptly has us consider needs that pets have met in our lives as well as what pets have helped us learn about ourselves. If you have a dog or cat, be sure you try these writing prompts. If not, check back next week when Promptly moves on to an entirely different subject for a memoir writing prompt.

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