I hope everyone had a good Labor Day! Since the 2026 Clatskanie Raymond Carver Writing Festival theme was WORK, this seemed the appropriate time to kick off our online Steal Time to Write.
Marj Hogan led a very successful—and packed—writing workshop at the 2026 Festival. She provides this month’s featured prompts:
After your thousandth hour at this task…
Because the tools I needed never arrived…
When I can’t clock out …
I wanted so badly to be good at …
A list of all the things that can burn you on this shift
Please share a bit of writing based on one of the prompts above.
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