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The Writer

1/15/2018

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​A sentence fills the room with expectations. It sets the mood, delivers the punchline, murders the king. A sentence wields power. Words cluster under its dominion. They line up and do as they’re told. Most are deemed deficient and end up deleted. The remaining letters quail. They know none of them are safe. In writing, even the darlings get killed.
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    carolyn O'Doherty

    When the muses refuse to come out and play, free writes are one strategy to try and trick them into coming back. Sometimes I use prompts, sometimes I just start putting words down on a page. The short pieces posted here are some of my favorites and, yeah, I spent way too much time finding photos to go with them. Shout out to pixabay, openphoto, and stocksnap.io for their huge array of copywrite free images.

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