Writing prompts
A letter arrives ten years late. What does it change?
Decide who almost throws it away. End with a choice rather than an explanation.
Decide who almost throws it away. End with a choice rather than an explanation.
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WORKED EXAMPLE
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The envelope was dated ten years ago, and Lina almost fed it to the shredder with the old bills. She stopped when she saw the return address: the house she had spent a decade avoiding.
Make it yours: The next paragraph should force a choice in the present, rather than explain the whole past.