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Something to bite our teeth into! Does the prompt appear as a first line or anywhere in the story?

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It does not have to. I had never even thought of trying! I don't think any one else in last night's call tried to do so. I have A LOT of work to do on that first draft, so maybe I'll see if there's a way to make that happen in a future draft as an experiment, but it is definitely not a requirement.

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Ok thank you!

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Happy writing!!

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Thank you and to you! Could it be a poem?

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I would have loads of fun reading a poem. I can’t see why not!

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I started on a short story already and then thought would you allow poems? They’re fiction but this seems to much of a story. I might change my mind by the time I finish.

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Late to the party with my comment, but I love a sentence that has a little of the poetic in it. For example, the title of Ursula Le Guin's novella: The Word for World Is Forest.

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Oh, this is SO cool! I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll see if I can come up with something good next month. I'd love to participate. And as far as sentences are concerned: I like to be surprised! Maybe it's an unexpected turn of phrase, an intriguing comparison, or even just words that aren't typically sentence bedfellows.

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