Today, make a list of firsts you’ve experienced. Anything. Your first writing class, your first romantic partner, your first time smoking a cigarette, your first say of sobriety, your first time writing a news story, your first day on the job, your first time eating pizza— whatever. Then pick one item from the list and write deeply and completely about it and see if you can connect it to something happening in the present. (Save the other list items to your main ideas list to write about another time.) Let’s write.
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