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Week 15: Story Lab

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Writer's Write Blog Open Yourself Up to the Possibilities of Story The author talks about how one prompt can be the basis for a million different stories Girl gets on a bus... And the story could be about a bomb, Rosa Parks, etc.  “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” ―  Lorrie Moore As an aspiring author, this short article was inspiring and a great reminder that all a story needs to be great is creativity and someone to chase down the prompt Harnessing the Power of Time in Your Storytelling The author uses an (annoyingly long) run-on sentence to describe his interpretation of time (capital T).  Time is powerful because it is relevant Article brings u an interesting idea that words, themselves, are time “The novel is time’s child. The novelist can never do otherwise than work with time, and nothing in his novel can escape it,” writes  Eudora Welty  in her fascinating essay on the