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"You are sentenced to death. Upon entering the execution room, instead of being executed, you are given a new passport and identity. You are informed that the death sentence has been abolished and now exists as an empty threat to deter violent crime." Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest .

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Prompt: Two elderly men in a retirement home exchange life stories. They slowly come to realize they are by no means strangers. Their paths have crossed before. Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest !

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Prompt: Late one night you see a man jump off the bridge. You run to where he jumped only to find a handwritten book entitled "The Lessons We Should Learn From Dead Men." You open the book to the first page. When the fog rolls in across the bay, and you can hardly see your hand in front of your face, the saddened and desperate multiply in the darkness. The bridge, scarlet arches of golden opportunity, is there to welcome those who have shut the doors to any other opportunity. Once there, the air is suffocatingly fresh and the only reminder of the ocean below is the crashing of the waves. You can stand there all night, surrounded by fog and dark thoughts, as I once did, and you can even gaze around in the faint hope that someone will see you, ask you what you're doing, try to stop you. But, rather than spotting a guardian angel, I saw only another man, a man whose face resembled my own in its desperation and hopelessness. Perhaps that is why I hesitated my own destruct...

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She could hear the music from the library; she probably shouldn't be there during the party. But the dancing had grown dull and her sister mentioned a library of enormous variety, having allegedly visited herself. The door swung open and she dropped the book with a jolt. Find this blurb on Pinterest ! Photo: Jeune Fille Lisant by Charles Chaplin (1857).

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Prompt: A pair of twins are born minutes apart on both sides of midnight. the twin of yesterday is similar to the twin of tomorrow in all aspects except one... Her eyes were light - blue as the sky on a bright summer morn - and her eyes were dark as a night without a moon. Anyone who didn't know them well would get them confused, but one glance from someone familiar would tell them exactly whose eyes they had met. The dark was calming, cool and mysterious, but the light burned with an intense heat only certain souls could stand. Find this blurb on Pinterest !

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Prompt: The fence was ten feet high, smooth as glass and black as tar. We spent every lunchtime pressed against it, straining to hear through the cracks. Some claimed they could hear the voices, murmuring, whispering, muttering. Some claimed they could make out the words: "Doom is near! Danger! Death!" But they were the troublemakers, the sensationalists, the attention-seekers, and the wannabes. If they could truly hear the words, they wouldn't be so inclined to repeat them. Find this blurb on Pinterest !

Daily Writing Blurb (+ Friday Writing Exercise!)

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As sort of a combination prompt and Friday Writing Exercise, today's Daily Writing Blurb actually comes with multiple prompts. A deep part of world building is the culture and history of a civilization. A big part of civilization is the mythology (whether it's believed to be truth or legend is up to you). Write a myth to explain: ... why the sun rises and sets. ... why leaves change color. ... why the sky is blue. ... why we are born and why we die. ... why the grass is green. ... where human beings come from. ... why birds fly and fish swim. ... thunder. ... lightning. ... why tsunami happen. ... why it snows. ... why flowers lose their leaves. ... why snakes have no legs. ... where we go when we die. ... why volcanoes erupt. ... why the moon changes shape. ... how bees got their stings. ... why droughts happen. ... why people are different colours. ... the tides. Find this blurb on Pinterest !

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She didn't have it when they killed her by the river. And when they waded in, stepping carefully, they didn't find their prize. They were oblivious guardsmen who hadn't the thought that perhaps, just perhaps, the sparkling orb might float lightly on the surface. With that perhaps come true, it came upon a particularly fine length of shore, with long reeds and lilies. Find this blurb on Pinterest ! Photo: (c) Caleb Tenenbaum.

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Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest ! Happy Fourth of July!

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Prompt: There is someone who is in love with your antagonist, and they can't hide it anymore. Write a scene where this character reveals their feelings. How does your antagonist react to this? Could it be they knew all along? Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest ! Source: MaxKirin, Tumblr

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Prompt: "You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative." Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest !

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He zig-zagged around the forest, examining almost everything he came across - a large mushroom, a peeling tree, a particularly fragrant bed of moss, and a puddle he insisted calling a pond. Find this blurb on Pinterest ! Find its storyboard here: Wiffen's Antiques . Photo: (c) Alex Stoddard.

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Prompt: I'm just here to establish an alibi. Blurb coming soon... Find this blurb on Pinterest !