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| | Welcome to The Time Is Now, your weekly poetry and fiction prompts to keep you writing all year long.
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POETRY PROMPT
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| Choose a draft of a poem that you've been working on or a poem that you aren't satisfied with. Print it out double-spaced. Write a new line between each line, then revise the poem as a whole, working to first expand it, then distill it to its most powerful form.
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FICTION PROMPT
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| Today's fiction prompt comes from fiction writer Steve Almond, whose most recent book God Bless America: Stories was published this week by Lookout Books.
My guiding philosophy of writing, maybe even of life, is that the path to the truth runs through shame. So dig through your memory banks and write about the most shameful episode you can remember. The challenge here is to provide the reader the basic dramatic context, then to slow down and move moment-to-moment during the worst of it. This need not be for general consumption. It's more an exercise in radical disclosure.
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THE BEST BOOKS FOR WRITERS
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| 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:
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