Tag: writing prompts

I’m More Grateful Than I Seem

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Some of you have been on this blogging journey with me for a long while and you will recognize this post from a couple of Thanksgiving’s ago. Since THE DAILY POST prompt today is GRATITUDE, I thought I’d dust this one off and present it again. Thank you for your kind indulgence. If I don’t […]

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Six Things I Prefer

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Read today’s WP Daily Prompt at your own risk. These are my opinions and may not have any basis in truth or may not come close to your own reality. The Daily Prompt — PREFER Dogs over Cats My daughters never grew up with pets. My husband and I had dogs when we first married, […]

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My Identity as a Writer

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 The Daily Post prompt—Identity I’d been trying to decide how I wanted to represent myself in public. Two years ago, in an article for the Guardian, author Catherine Nichols told how submitting her manuscript under a male pseudonym brought her more than eight times the number of responses she had received under her own name. […]

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Cacophony Settles

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Steve didn’t know what scared him most—the screaming, “reeeeeeeeeeee,- reeeeeeeeeeee,” of the siren or the careening ambulance that almost knocked him down. A bit shaken, he stepped back onto the curb. He’d wait for the next light. Two-way traffic poured unto the boulevard, close enough for him to touch. Car stereos blasted pop, classical, and […]

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