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If you missed last week’s episode, you missed a great one. You can watch the replay here.

As always, the ladies of the podcast created some great pieces of writing from this sprint prompt. This week, the prompt was: We made a top 10 list . We really enjoyed Tina’s take on the prompt, and we think you will as well! Enjoy, and make sure you reach out to her to let her know you want her to finish this story!

“I don’t know, I think we need to go in an entirely different direction.” 

Silence from those sitting around the table. 

“Seriously, this isn’t going to work. Nobody cares about the nutrition as much as they care about the taste.”

Still silent. 

“What we need to have is an ad campaign showing people enjoying the product, talking about how good it is, with close up shots to get them salivating and craving it.”

Some quiet mumbling from the other end of the conference table. 

“Come on guys, does watching a couple jogging, or children at the doctor get you hungry?”

Shrugging of shoulders, paper shuffling, and looking down to avoid eye contact. 

In the uncomfortable silence, Sheila turned to the whiteboard and began to doodle a picture of a person eating a veggie burger, their expression was excited and happy. The silence wore on. 

She turned to face the conference table, looking at each person individually, nobody but Earl met her gaze. 

“Earl,” she said. His shoulders immediately slumped. “What is your take on this?” 

Earl shuffled his papers, picked up his pen, put it down again. Cleared his throat. 

“Well, I mean, it sounds good and all, but…”

“But what?”

“But we made a top ten list!”

If you missed last week’s episode, you missed a great one. You can watch the replay here.

As always, the ladies of the podcast created some great pieces of writing from this sprint prompt. This week, they had to use these five words: rest, brink, tray, progress, yearn. We really enjoyed Tina’s take on the prompt, and we think you will as well! Enjoy, and make sure you reach out to her to let her know you want her to finish this story!

“I think you’ve made good progress,” said Nurse Sheila. “The fact that you no longer yearn for a tray of cheesecake bites every night after dinner means you’re on the brink of full recovery, the rest will fall into place with time.” 

“So does that mean I can go home?” Tracy asked, her hands palms together in prayer position. 

“Not quite yet,” Nurse Sheila replied. “First we need to test whether you can cope in a real world situation.” She gestured for Tracy to follow, then led her down the long sterile hallway to the double steel doors at the end. She held her name badge up to the electronic pad on the wall and the doors clicked, then slowly opened. 

Once they were on the other side, Nurse Sheila pulled the doors firmly closed until they clicked again. Another long sterile hallway, another set of doors, only this time the hallway was carpeted and the walls were papered in gray and mauve pinstripes. Each brown wooden door had a shiny gold number plaque attached to the upper half. Nurse Sheila led Tracy to door number 14 and opened it with what looked like a hotel key card. 

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Hello fellow writer!
Can you believe July is almost over? It has been a beautiful summer here in Michigan where I live with my family and our ever growing population of animals. And because the weather has been so fantastic, I have been spending a lot of time outside working on projects. Okay, more like supervising my husband work on the projects I come up with, but hey…I’m still outside!I love to listen to stuff while I work outside….music, podcasts, my children playing. And I hear a lot of great stuff that I think you’ll find beneficial (not my kids playing. They’re cute, but not sure you’ll gain anything from listening to them argue over who gets the tree swing next.) 

So, here is a list of what I listened to the past week that I think you might find beneficial…

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