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Day 17 – Robin Stein Helps Your Character Escape

Robin Stein Writing Prompt

The Prompt

Here’s a prompt from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem Travel:

. . . there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.

Create a character who cannot wait to leave their town. Why do they want to leave? What or whom will they leave behind? Will the decision to start anew prove to be a good one?

The Author

Robin Stein writes fiction and memoir in Newton, MA. Her inspiration comes from music, family and nature. For information on her children’s book, My Two Cities, and her workshops, please visit robinsteincreative.com.

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7 thoughts on “Day 17 – Robin Stein Helps Your Character Escape”

  1. My story features a character from my work-in-progress trying to leave home to do her ballet exam. She hates living with her grandma, and tries so hard to be independent, but life is not kind to her.

  2. In the mountains of Portugal a monastery offered blessings to local villagers in exchange for one of their sons. A desperate family with a cloud hanging over them reluctantly sought a blessing in exchange for their youngest son. The boy once in monastic care discovered that worrying things were happening inside this reclusive community and he was determined to find a way to expose it. Unfortunately he was found out and things did not end happily.

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