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Writing Prompts: Imagine a Re-Do
Tell the truth, but tell it as Your Version š¹
Many writers claim to hate revision. Which, with all due respect, is the nuttiest thing Iāve ever heard. Personally, I often feel like I write just so that I can get to the blessed stage of revision. All that rereading! All the noodling around, removing a word, adding it again, then removing it again! Now thatās what I call a good time.
This week, letās make like a Swift and re-do. You know how Taylor Swift is rerecording and rereleasing all her albums? We can all get inspired by that Taylorās Version energy.
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THIS WEEKāS PROMPTS
Revise a Piece of Writing
Take your earliest piece of writing you can find: an old or unpublished draft here on Medium; a short story you wrote in college; a blog post you wrote for your old jobās website but never felt confident about. Take only the first line. Open a new doc or draft. Start over.
Rethink Your Work Story
If someone asked you, āSo, whatās the story of your career?ā would you have an answer? Itās something we usually only think about when heading into a job interview, but itās worth thinking about if youāre looking to shift things around, change things up, or just understand your career a little better. Write it out in a few paragraphs, as if you were a biographer: The story of your work life.
Re-tell the Past
Think about a pivotal moment in your life. What if everything had gone differently? What if you hadnāt taken the job that moved you to Singapore, or caught that subway train you almost missed that morning, or gone on that blind date? What if you had?
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