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NiProWriMo 28/30: Don't Leave Home Without It

What do you carry with you? {read more}

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NiProWriMo 27/30: Memory

There are mundane chores that we do every day or at least regularly. Things like laundry, dishes, (maybe) making the bed.

Take a moment to brainstorm. What are the {read more}

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NiProWriMo 26/30: Everything I Need to Know I Learned...

I’m currently reading The Sobbing School  by Joshua Bennett which begins with this quote from Zora Neale Hurston: I do not {read more}

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NiProWriMo 25/30

Because this song has been on my mind for months. Because I can't find a link of just Beyoncé. Because shouldn't we all come with a {read more}

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NiProWriMo 23/30: The Truth

Name 10 items of clothing.

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Poet Maya Marshall asks in her poem “Strays” “What’s the opposite of {read more}

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NiProWriMo 22/30: Sweep the Knee Johnny 

I recently discovered that athletic cups for women exist. Besides the heavens parting and angels descending all around me in what can best be described as {read more}

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NiProWriMo 19/30: Carve

https://www.patreon.com/posts/niprowrimo-4-19-8936390

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NiProWriMo 18/30: Granted

Today isn’t a prompt as much as it is permission. Say {read more}

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NiProWriMo 17/30: My Blues Aint Like Your Blues (Except That They Are)

My friend, during a conversation about planning for the future, said to me, “I got those {read more}

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NiProWriMo 15 & 16/30: Like Kanye Loves Kanye

Let's start today with a list:

1) {read more}

Now that you've got that list, put it to the side and forget it for a while.  Instead, let's all access that inner Kanye (the parts of him with high self-esteem, not the mad problematic parts)...

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14/30: Negative Space

Name a thing you love. Not a person, not an abstract idea. A thing. It could be coffee or your morning jog or people watching. It could be large in your life such as your job or passion or it could be as small as {read more}

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NiProWriMo 13/30: Who Were You Expecting

I think about god a lot -- about the entity, about the idea. I think of the vengeful gods, the forgiving gods, the wrathful gods, the trickster gods. I think about god a lot.

I think, too, of {read more}

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NiProWriMo 12/30: Every Time

Sometimes we know what will happen and we do it anyway.  Today’s prompt is a {read more}

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NiProWriMo 10/30: Never Have I Ever

I read once that you should never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word because it means they learned it by reading.

Today, let’s expand on this idea.

We can write about {read more}

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NiProWriMo 9/30: So Extra

There was a waitress in diner down the street. She was always there in her sensible shoes. Always serving coffee. Always maintaining an friendly and guarded banter with the regulars, of which I was one. {read more}

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NiProWriMo 8/30: Not Exactly 21 Grams

Let's imagine that you step on your scale and instead of seeing your weight in ounces or pounds or kilograms or stones your weight is given to you {read more}

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NiProWriMo 7/30: Misremembered

Let's imagine that you step on your scale and instead of seeing your weight in ounces or pounds or kilograms or stones your weight is given to you in in animate objects or animate objects how many birds are you how many books are you are the books unwritten or unread are the birds in flight have they been cooked

Let's think about how we will be remembered. No matter what you've done, how virtuously (or not) you've lived, we will all be remember the same way: inaccurately.

Let's collect some {read more}