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here's a prompt to spark your imagination

Jun 20, 2025

Just one word today:

TEETH

I’m really enjoying the visceral lately. But you can take this in any direction you want. A gentle story about the tooth fairy? Or a fairy tale with empty mouths and a lesson at the end?

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Happy writing!

musings

I’m going to be changing the format a bit. Subscribers will still get a prompt every Friday before the weekend rolls in. But the musings section will now appear once a month. My hope is that it will let me really sink my teeth (😉) into a topic. And potentially do some reporting, something I really miss doing!

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things that caught my eye

Recent read: Hello, world. I finally finished a book!!! And I’m out of the biggest reading slump of my life —> Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.

✏️ Page One Prize (1st prize $1,000) — deadline July 16th at 5 PM EST.

🌿Nature Writing Can Feed the Myth of the Outside as a Cure — But My Own Work Has Helped Me Reframe My Illness — via The Conversation.

👀 Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task — via MIT.

😧 ‘Survivor’ Star Promises Her New Book Willl ‘Take Readers By Surprise’ — via Entertainment Now. (I’m an old and new Survivor fan because I was there for the first few seasons, but dropped off for a long time. Now, I’m back and even working on an audition tape…)

❌ Trump Administration Could Change the Way We Read, From Book Bans to Author Talks — via USA Today.

🚜 She Writes About Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Aso Changing Canadian Poetry — via The Walrus.