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Writing Exercise #50: “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.”
“Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.” I had never in my life wished for a battle more than I did right now. But Jack and I had destroyed the enemy. We had won. I should be celebrating,…
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Writing Exercise #49: Write a story using future tense.
He will wake up alone and remember he didn’t pick up his wife last night. He will call her repeatedly. She will not answer. He will call her mother to ask her where his wife is. His mother-in-law will not know and after a grueling 15-minutes of questions from the…
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Writing Exercise #48: “After all was said and done…”
“After all was said and done, more was said than done.” That’s what the poster on the wall says. My job thinks it helps morale to have the funny versions of the motivational posters hanging around the office rather than the originals. Steven Covey, I think they’re by. What management…
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Writing Exercise #47: Perfection
Perfection. That was the only way Leona could describe Ewan. He moved like a cool lake and spoke like a sonnet. And every morning when she woke up and looked into her husband Owen’s sleeping face, she hated herself for even daring to think about another man. So what if…
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Writing Exercise #46: You have insomnia. What are you doing while the rest of the world is asleep?
10pm: The wife is nagging me because I won’t see a doctor about my insomnia. I nag her about moving from Alaska, where it doesn’t get dark for parts of the year, to moving back to Vegas, where I loved living. 12am: The wife has finally decided to take a…




