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Writing Prompt: Why Can't I Be More Like Hemingway?

Merle Huerta, an army chaplain's wife, is the mother of a blended family of thirteen children. During her husband's combat deployments, she co-authored articles appearing in the Jerusalem Post and National Review. She has a Masterï¿½s from Columbia University in Instructional Media and Technology and a Certificate in Nonfiction from The Writers Institute at CUNY. She lives at the U.S. Military Academy in New York. "Tuesday Mornings" is her first solo publication.

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Writing Prompt: Why Can't I Be More Like Hemingway?

By Merle Huerta

December 6, 2009

Each month, we post a writing prompt tied to the current month's essay. Please email your responses of 500 words or less to lmreflections (at) literarymama (dot) com with the words "writing prompt" in the subject line so that we know it's not an essay submission. Submissions should be in the text of an email (please do not send attachments). We will accept responses until the 15th of each month and offer our feedback on each response privately before the end of the month. We hope you'll take this opportunity to get inspired, share your work, and find community with other writers! We'll post our favorites on our blog.

In this month's essay, Why Can't I Be More Like Hemingway?, Stephanie McGhee reflects on what kind of writer she'd be if her life was more like Ernest Hemingway's. She writes, "Unlike Hemingway's work space, so sacred that people had to tiptoe past it, mine isn't separate from the house. It's off the kitchen with no door."

If you could live in anyone's life, whose would it be? What would your slice of life look like?

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