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EDITOR'S NOTE That's how it starts I’m a sucker for good one-liners. Yesterday, I took my kids to see the new Indiana Jones movie, after building them up about it for more than a month, hoping to be moved into nostalgia with Indiana Jones/Han Solo type dialogue. I go way back with one-liners. In ninth grade my English teacher would put prompts on the chalkboard, and each night our homework was to write a page on that one line (oddly similar to MWLM’s one-liner contest), and that is where “it” started for me. For cover feature Lori McKenna, picking up a guitar changed her life and got her strumming and writing. Actor/director/mom writer Janine Turner, profiled in this issue, mentions listening to your inner voice and writing your thoughts down, even if you’re prompted at four in the morning. There is much to be said for a good prompt. Writers – any type of artist, actually – find prompts everywhere, at random and often inconvenient times. So, what do you do? Pretty sure it’s different for everyone, but I believe in going with the flow of our creative nudges. For prompts already given you, it’s a lot like a multiple choice test; the first answer that pops into your head is probably correct. Follow those strong feelings in your writing and get deep as you can, that is how you tell the same story your way. That is what we are always hoping to hear. When I started writing my column for MWLM, I had many different ideas for my column’s title. Things related to motherhood, writing and food, but ultimately I settled on a title inspired by a one-liner, “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go along,” said Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (told you, it goes way back). Next prompt that stirs you, follow it. Just like Janine Turner says, even if you can’t write it out there and then, scribble down your idea somewhere. Then crack yourself open first chance you get. Now is the era of re-made movies, comic book reincarnations, and endless ways to get yourself read; the world is waiting to hear good stories. You’re a writer, you’re a Mom; you’ve got it in you. Your one liner is waiting. Happy Summertime!
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