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This blog originally had a very specific purpose: it was a place to post prompts for creative writing during the time of the lockdown. Initially it was for the use of my writing group, as we could not for the time being meet in person - but it's available now to anyone who'd like to have a go at creative writing. I very strongly believe that writing is good for you: while you're writing, you're off somewhere else - you've escaped! So off you go - have fun!

Thursday, 3 February 2022

One Day

 Here is a link to a blog post by author Liz Kessler, who writes about a day which utterly changed - in fact saved - the lives of her father and his family - do have a look at it. Her family was Jewish, and they were living in Vienna in the 1930s, when, during a trip on a steamboat on the Danube, they had a chance encounter with an English couple...

Write a piece of your own, entitled 'One Day', about a day which significantly changes things for the narrator. It can be fact or fiction. 


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