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POTS

Explore how these pots will help you germinate new writing.

Think about people turning their attention to the plants they’ll be growing in the months ahead.

What would you, or a character, do with your pots? What would be planted and how would it need to be cultivated?

How will what’s been planted grow?

How will the ideas associated with the planting and the growing be expressed in writing?

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