Hello, dear readers and writers. This week’s writing prompt is the list exercise. Those of you who have written with me in the past, or followed my now defunct blog The Catalyst, know it well. Still, it requires some explanation. You can find that below. But first, this week’s quote, by Garrison Keillor, from The Writer’s Almanac, who reminds us about the connection between writing and happiness.
The life of writing is a good life; it's a lucky lucky life. Writers complain too much about the difficulty of it; the difficulty of it is no more than the difficulty of being a dentist or being a teacher or doing any of a thousand other things. Weariness and gloom can strike anybody. It's not limited to writers. It's a very good life, writing, for the very simple reason that writing is always a search for the particular. And that's where happiness lies: in the details. Happiness lies in small, particular things. Gloom and depression are general, but happiness is always specific.
Now onto the prompt, which requires a bit of explanation. It involves three steps:
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