Writing prompts
Describe a library that lends skills instead of books.
Choose a skill that should never have been returned. Show the cost of keeping it.
Choose a skill that should never have been returned. Show the cost of keeping it.
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WORKED EXAMPLE
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The library card listed three borrowed skills: bicycle repair, bread making, and keeping a secret. Only the last one was overdue, and the fine had begun to change the borrower's voice.
Make it yours: Make the cost of keeping a borrowed skill visible in a scene.