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The Time Is Now, Week 41
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The Time Is Now October 18, 2012 |
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| | Welcome to The Time Is Now. For even more inspiration, check out our Tumblr, Lines We Live By, a collection of excerpts from our favorite books.
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Poetry Prompt
| | Take one of your poems that you're not satisfied with and use scissors to cut it up into its lines. Rearrange the lines, omitting ones that no longer fit. With this fresh arrangement as a working draft, compose an entirely new poem. |
Fiction Prompt
| | Choose one of your stories that needs revision. Create a timeline that includes each year of the main character's life, fleshing out details that support who he or she is. After you've finished, return to the story and revise it in terms of this more fully developed understanding you have of your main character. |
Creative Nonfiction Prompt
| | Write about a time when you traveled to a place where you didn't speak the language--either literally or figuratively. It could have been a foreign country or simply a different city, state, or group of people among which you felt like an outsider. As an ethnographer might write about a different culture, focus on how the people around you spoke and behaved, how you felt as you listened and observed, and the ways in which you were able--or ultimately unable--to assimilate and communicate. |
The Best Books for Writers | | Each week we recommend a book--a newly published title or an invaluable classic--that will help you on your writing journey. This week's pick:
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (Picador, 2012) |
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the Newsstand Price The future of independent publishing, a profile of National Book Award nominee Louise Erdrich, an interview with graphic novelist Chris Ware, plus over 85 writing contests with upcoming deadlines, and more
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issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. |
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