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Write about you (or your main character’s) earliest memory involving water … Read More “Summer writing prompt: Water, water everywhere”
Write about your very first album purchase – and what that music meant to you. Alternatively, write about your main character’s first album.  … Read More “What was the first album you bought with your own money?”
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2019 Guide to Summer Writing Contests
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