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28 x 20

Day 21: Half | 28 x 20

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Blaise Allysen Kearsley
Feb 21, 2026
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Good morning. Pretend I didn’t accidentally send you today’s prompt yesterday.

Hey, are you collecting all of your 28 x 20 writing in one place? Do that. And don’t look at any of it until we get to the end.

Speaking of which, in On Writing Well, William Zinsser suggests this system for daily writing and building a long-form project. Something to think about come March 1st.

But your inspiration for Day 20 is a passage from an essay by playwright Marlina González, penned for How Dare We Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse.

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