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Writing Prompt: Turning Tax Time into a Fun Prompt

by Matilda ButlerApril 13, 2010
Writing Prompt: Turning Tax Time into a Fun Prompt

Writing Prompt: Matilda has come up with a once a year kind of idea — turning tax time into a writing prompt. She’s been eager to post this for weeks. Hope you enjoy it and that it brings stories to mind and pen.

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Writing Prompt: Who Owns the Story, Part 1

by Matilda ButlerApril 6, 2010
Writing Prompt: Who Owns the Story, Part 1

Writing Prompt: Janet Riehl and Stephanie Farrow bring you the first of a two part article about ownership of our stories. Then they give you three writing prompts to get you thinking and writing.

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500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #21 – Hanging Up Your Stories

by Promptly PortlandMarch 30, 2010
500 Words (or More) Writing Prompt #21 – Hanging Up Your Stories

Promptly Portland changes the usual writing prompt into an organizing prompt exercise. If you have a number of vignettes without an organizational framework, this exercise is both fun and helpful.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #20 – The Influence of Color

by Promptly PortlandMarch 23, 2010
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #20 – The Influence of Color

Writing Prompt: Promptly Portland is back and this time she has us thinking about crayons and the color of our words. Do you know the most popular Crayola color? Be sure to read her writing prompt and you’ll find out.

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Memoir Book Review: Rhoda Janzen’s Mennonite in a Little Black Dress Reviewed by Shirley H. Showalter

by Matilda ButlerMarch 17, 2010
Memoir Book Review: Rhoda Janzen’s Mennonite in a Little Black Dress Reviewed by Shirley H. Showalter

Book Review: Rhoda Janzen’s memoir, Mennonite in A Little Black Dress, is reviewed by Shirley H. Showalter with an eye to analyzing the memoir’s humor and discussing how memoir writers can benefit from using at least some elements of humor.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #19 and The Past, the Present, the Future — All at Once

by Promptly PortlandMarch 16, 2010
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #19 and The Past, the Present, the Future — All at Once

Memoir Writing Prompt: Promptly Portland provides a writing exercise to help us explore three perspectives on time.

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500 Words (or more): Memoir Writing Prompt #18 and Words, Bonus

by Promptly PortlandFebruary 23, 2010
500 Words (or more): Memoir Writing Prompt #18 and Words, Bonus

Promptly Portland surprises us with a bonus after the trilogy of blogs on words. Three examples are chosen to illustrate the point and get you thinking. Have your own favorite memoir? Be sure to leave the name in the Comments section to share with other writers.

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