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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 . 12:59 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/31/10 Write a story that takes place entirely in a moving vehicle. 0 comments

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 . 1:20 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/30/10 Want to create a strong villain? Think of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken." Try writing about a singular traumatic event that put the villain on the road to villainy. Where the hero might have reacted one way, the villain reacts another, and that "made all the difference" as the poem says. 0 comments

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Monday, March 29, 2010 . 1:02 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/29/10 How far would a parent go to save his child? Write about a child in trouble somehow and what the child's parents do to help. 0 comments

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 . 1:23 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/23/10 Write about a prophet or prophecy. It can be as mundane or esoteric as you like, and can take place in whatever time period suits your fancy. 0 comments

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Monday, March 22, 2010 . 5:48 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/22/10 Write about losing something. It can be a person, an object, or even something intangible like innocence. 0 comments

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Friday, March 19, 2010 . 11:50 AM

Hair of the Dog - 3/19/10 Choose a minor or secondary character from a famous work. Write a story or poem from that character's perspective. For example, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play by Tom Stoppard told from the point of view of two secondary characters from Hamlet. How would a character only tangentially involved in the action perceive the events? Or if the character is directly involved, what is his unique perspective that wasn't shown in the original work? 1 comments

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don't quit and keep creating mainly because it just simply truly worth to read it,
impatient to looked over a whole lot more of your own articles, goodbye :)

By  Anonymous, at March 20, 2010 at 9:01 AM  

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 . 11:27 AM

Hair of the Dog - 3/17/10 Happy St. Patrick's Day! Write about a tradition of some kind. It can be related to a holiday or special event, or can just be something that is done in the same way every set time period. 0 comments

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Monday, March 15, 2010 . 3:26 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/15/10 Beware the ides of March! Write about the middle of something. It can be a place or time or book or situation or child, as long as it's middling in some way. 0 comments

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Thursday, March 11, 2010 . 5:19 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/11/10 Write something new using the first line of something you've already written. Use a portion of the first line if that suits you better, but at least make it a complete clause. 0 comments

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 . 2:12 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/9/10 Write a story that includes a device called Chekhov's gun. As per Wikipedia, "Chekhov's gun is the literary technique whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but its significance does not become clear until later on. For example, a character may find a mysterious object that eventually becomes crucial to the plot, but at the time the object is found it does not seem to be important." 0 comments

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Monday, March 8, 2010 . 3:22 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/8/10 Start a story or poem with "The last time I saw Paris..." 0 comments

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Thursday, March 4, 2010 . 10:15 AM

Hair of the Dog - 3/4/10 Write about school. It can be any kind of school from preschool through college and beyond, perhaps even a class being taken for fun. 0 comments

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Monday, March 1, 2010 . 9:07 PM

Hair of the Dog - 3/1/10 Write a spring poem. 0 comments

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