🆆 Micro Monday: Mistakes are Experience

Micro Monday Newsletter Prompt #124

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Quote #124

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Prompt #124

Find a photo from a time you went on vacation. Write about the moment in the photo in the form of a postcard.

Set the timer for 10 minutes and start writing. When the timer goes off, give the piece a title, count up the words, and post it below.

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