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      <image:caption>You can read a sample of Canan’s new novel here!</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The bubbles in this sketch seem to happen as if by magic. How can we carve out space to feel/experience the same, knowing that we might not be so lucky as to see soap bubbles drift out of the sky and into our waiting hands unless we seek them out?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scheming and dreaming, as we do, about all the truly wild premises. We vow always to treat each other’s most bizarre stories with utter seriousness.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Merch from our last B*tch &amp; Submit, a gathering of writers keen on celebrating the fun, the bizarre, the magic, the wild. The crack/craic.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Seeking Light in the Dark: Altars, Play, and Female Rebellion - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rather than my WIP, I let the notion of creative inspiration guide my altar and what I gathered reminded me of the playfulness I'd like to approach my creative work with.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Claire pointed out that altars could include dynamic changeable elements—herbs, flowers, freshly found stones. Some items would remain, others could be cycled out and released.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Seeking Light in the Dark: Altars, Play, and Female Rebellion - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/light-another-candle</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-09</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The Thymes Frasier Fir candle available from Central Market (not a sponsor). A votive costs $15.99. I always buy one at the start of the holiday season and hope it will last me till the new year. I went ham on this one—it sputtered out. Maybe I’ll get the bigger one next year.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Someone left this piece of quartz in the woods—a small, sparkly gift for whoever passes by. I might not have noticed were I moving at my typical anxiety-hike pace.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/slow-solstice</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Winter Creative Commitment in inspired by the deep magic and restful dark of the winter portal.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Magic can be momentary, slow, simple, free. Candle hand-painted by writer-friend Taisia Kitaiskaia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sometimes magic is accidental, like hanging a wreath to get it out of the way and framing a beautiful snow hare with a bit of prism. This is the Lost Spells calendar with illustrations by Jackie Morris.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/pitch-witch-reflection</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-26</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Scoping out the venue + talking about our WIPs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Waiting for our fellow Pitch Witches to arrive!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gleeful conversations at the B*tch &amp; Submit.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our mascot: the Pitch Witch at her coziest.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/release-to-reinvent</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>I designed the Creative Commitment series to be seasonal so that we can embrace our writing goals within the context of what is possible and playful.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is not basic bread, this is very cute bread, I just wanted to include it. It’s my blog!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Season of Reinvention - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fall might not look like this where you live, but the landscape will change, even if subtly. That transformation can be inspiring.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/daydream-summer</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Writing on a shaded porch with a glass of iced coffee is such a sweet dream—as long as it’s not 102, your mind is anxiety-free, and your spirit is willing. Easy!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The tiny and beautiful Stockholm apartment where I met with the incredile Spring Creative Commitment writers and also never wrote a thing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Petrus and Paulus / Reidar Särestöniemi / 1979 Postcard from the museum gift shop framed by dianthus (firewitch), thriving in the heat.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Out of season: Farm Club in Traverse City.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/rekindling-the-fire</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Rekindling the Fire - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The cry or hoot of a great horned owl can make you pause mid-stride, look up, and listen.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/mountain-and-mystic</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-06-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - The Mountain and the Mystic - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The witch in my novel has a crystal ball. She just doesn’t really know how to use it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Austin Tarot Therapy trailer in the front garden of Yarrow &amp; Sage. Yes, it feels this magic on the inside as well! Check out Linda’s website/socials for pics.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Mountain via the Archetypes oracle deck created by Kim Krans, photographed by Megan Clark because I do not own this deck. Thanks, Megan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Earliest green buzz of the late-Pisces season.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/winter-to-spring</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-03-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Our Restless Writer Souls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pose is affected but smirk is pure. Photo by a beloved member of my writers group—memoirist, novelist, and ceramicist Anne Bingham.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Our Restless Writer Souls - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Not my backyard, but a similar sun-in-branches feel from a winter writers retreat near the Llano river.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/on-the-challenge-of-growth</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-04-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - On the Challenge of Growth - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The cry or hoot of a great horned owl can make you pause mid-stride, look up, and listen.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - On the Challenge of Growth - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/owl-cry</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-26</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The cry or hoot of a great horned owl can make you pause mid-stride, look up, and listen.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/slow-writing</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-22</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Big picture goals, stressors, and unanswered questions make it hard to move step by step. That’s where the light of the Hermit can anchor us in the moment. Photo by Vlad Bagacian.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Hermit in the Modern Witch Tarot deck by Lisa Sterle held up against purple blooms of Mexican sage.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/sunshine</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Sunshine, Yes, Even Now, and Also - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pic from a walk in the Stephenson Nature Preserve in South Austin. I found myself pausing occasionally to sit with a small rush of hope—something I wasn’t quite ready to trust—and feel its warmth and allow it to sink in.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/on-thresholds-and-transitions</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-11-06</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/286dbe87-58f2-45aa-a15c-a47d32a1adc2/Canan+blog+image.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - On Thresholds and Transitions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Anniversary” (1938) By Marvin Dorwart Cone (1891-1965)</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/bf9500d5-96b3-410f-9356-3c09f01afd87/Canan+headshot.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - On Thresholds and Transitions - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/pulling-threads</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-10-26</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/a0b4e705-797c-4158-81bd-6c99c564c357/Casey+blog+post+thumbnail.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Pulling Threads - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This orb weaver is pulling threads to repair her web, reinforcing its weak points and building her home stronger than ever.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/14d0812a-b56b-4031-9d06-e3e3d9a94c9a/Casey+blog+post+headshot+%281%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Pulling Threads - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/the-only-reader-who-matters</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-09-28</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/73da628f-731e-4751-9561-e6520746a2e3/jovis-aloor-4YxXWYW7JqQ-unsplash.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Write Like You’re the Only Reader Who Matters - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Just think of what could happen if we all become a little more self-serving, a little more hedonistic in our writing.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/3e98db9f-eef8-40ff-a18d-aa8bd19d374c/Megan+Author+Photo.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Write Like You’re the Only Reader Who Matters - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/no-apologies</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-09-12</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/08f68451-1a82-445c-9fd3-05d937e5414d/Esperanza.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - No Apologies - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>What if your writing grew wild and unchecked? What if it took up the space that it needed?</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1722806964648-60ZJRKKTQMASOQMHJXR1/unsplash-image-ZAA73cj0Iso.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - No Apologies - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wildness can be welcoming. Letting things just be can be liberating. Is there anything in your writing life that could grow a little wilder this coming year?</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/abundance-and-curiosity</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-08-01</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/bf0b2801-dcc1-4752-a5b7-8502f70a95bd/Spirit+in+Forest.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Abundance and Curiosity - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Curiosity and Discovery: Found this forest spirit on a walk in the Stephenson Nature Preserve. Don’t know the creator so can’t credit them! This little being was gone the next day. Curiouser and curiouser.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1722518014841-5KEL1JXXULVCTJ2103W0/unsplash-image-OPSus5S_6rc.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Abundance and Curiosity - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sometimes engaging with our own curiosity and wonder is as simple as stopping to look up.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/music-and-mood</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-07-31</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1714780692776-5S0R1Q0XLP5F8W6IV740/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Music and Mood - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A playlist approach can provide some useful noise when Word Count is just too quiet.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1714781662171-9QGSBNE4T5KOYE5BZVU1/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Music and Mood - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Writers have strong opinions about writing to music. Sometimes I think it can be fun to test our own notions of what works and what doesn’t.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/eclipse-glasses</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-05-03</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1712752608184-6ZW4SH17E0S19XF4LXS7/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Write With Eclipse Glasses - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This stock photo was the closest I found to the actual color of the sky during totality—or how it appeared to my eclipse-glasses-eye: a deep, beautiful blue-gray that was just past twilight and included a few stars and a couple silver chemtrails.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/2671c71d-3f19-475c-9fa8-da3cb6ee7443/Eclipse+Glasses.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Write With Eclipse Glasses - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Me with mosquito catcher and orange slice waiting for the first moon slice.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/lunar-liminality</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-04-10</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1706719979874-ZBMOLWBCK579TMKB472T/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Lunar Liminality - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The moon is always changing; the Muse is always changing. That can be annoying or affirming, depending on the day.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/e27ccbf3-cf76-4592-b775-0e5ff765443b/La+Lune+Marseilles.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Lunar Liminality - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/weather-and-the-body</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-12-20</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/6305fd9a-b860-479c-9a26-3f0f964cff1c/eberhard-grossgasteiger-0jI_VomyV2I-unsplash.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Weather and the Body - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/solstice-ideas-unfolding</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-01-31</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/dfda6e88-6ad8-4e8c-83c1-3a451a8dc1ff/Preserve+for+Solstice+Prompt.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Hello, Solstice - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by me: light and shadow in Stephenson Nature Preserve here in Austin.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/in-yun-and-the-power-of-connection</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-12-20</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/c8cb591f-91bb-467e-9f5c-b97162cf77e0/McKenzie+with+A24.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - In-Yun and the Power of Connection - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A24’s zine, In-Yun</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/its-all-about-perspective</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/9893bb16-1ba2-414d-81d4-23479ea844cc/anika-huizinga-RmzR87vTiYw-unsplash.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - It's All About Perspective - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/writing-with-abundance</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-09-03</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/ecc98a05-4747-4201-97dd-c8423a563229/Esperanza.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Abundance - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Abundance in the garden seen here in all its glory. Esperanza (Tecoma stans). We stan.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/writing-with-the-queens</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-09-02</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/6f134d74-ac90-4704-85a4-ffe5bc692940/Queens+Modern+Witch.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Writing with the Queens - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Queens as depicted in the Modern Witch Tarot Deck by Lisa Sterle.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/room-with-a-view</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-07-20</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/ee8711cd-6f7a-44b0-8456-4b1aff0d406e/Foundation+House+Library.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Room With a View and Writer-Friends - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The library at Foundation House.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/expanding-on-oddities</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-08-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/487841c2-19d5-49a9-bc51-6748a2796fef/pexels-mateusz-walendzik-14794153.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Expanding on Small Oddities - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/hurt-and-healing</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-04-17</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/4d28264f-1178-48a0-a7cb-a82d091d45e6/hand+%2B+bandaid.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Hurt and Healing - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/creative-mornings-austin</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-05-24</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/solstice-chant</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2023-02-20</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/d45bf016-2906-4bd3-bdeb-6c74527ddc14/pexels-eva-bronzini-6215202.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Solstice Revisited - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by Eva Bronzini.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/try-the-tomato</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-12-20</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/ceab4e68-0baa-4642-9573-97eddbe62f7d/Pomodoro+Tomato.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Try the Tomato for One Week - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of my favorite timers. This one is loud, so I have to set it in the next room. It does force you to honor the breaks!</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/spiraling-home</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/db4bd055-13d6-4cda-a6c2-9c5604bfadf5/pexels-bi-su%CC%88m-12696418.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Spiraling Home - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Just like our characters, we writers expand while circling our creative origins. Photo by @_bisum.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/3003b1d8-207c-4def-931b-cf92794ddaca/pexels-dids-7203981.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Spiraling Home - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo by @didssph.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/stones-as-seeds</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-08-19</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/5f494e58-e02d-49eb-8dbb-0c6ed1a1efc4/Blue+Stone+on+Trail.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - What if your stone were a seed? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I found a blue stone! Unexpected treasures on the trail.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/4517e56b-8196-4efc-93dd-1f4d41a6e480/Pausing+in+Scared+Space+on+Trail.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - What if your stone were a seed? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pausing in a sacred space. Photo by trail guide and writer friend Rebekah Manley.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/wings-and-wildflowers</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-07-27</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/bc92dc98-4486-4182-92f4-0d3330b1161c/Haystacks+Silhouette+Marfa.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Wings and Wildflowers - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wide open spaces and taking time.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/write-to-take-risks</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-06-08</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/26187f43-bd4d-45da-b35f-14ff14718119/Justice+at+Foundation+House.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Write to Take Risks - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the library at Foundation House in Greenwich, CT.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/map-to-write</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-11</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/72dccbb6-3019-428a-8c16-d3821ebf4374/pexels-cottonbro-5370912.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Map to Write - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. / More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. —Elizabeth Bishop, “The Map”</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/let-go-make-magic</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-04-13</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/19b2a5e8-5518-40d3-ac06-6d839ba53ca8/pexels-matthew-simmonds-3025874.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Letting Go to Make Way for Magic - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>the butterfly / rose, weightless, in the wind. / "Don't love your life / too much," it said, / and vanished / into the world. —Mary Oliver, “One or Two Things” Photo by @thatguymateo.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/making-out-of-love</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-03-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Making Out of Love - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>True healing is not the fixing of the broken, but the rediscovery of the unbroken. -Jeff Foster</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/light-and-dark</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-02-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Rebalancing So-Called Light and Dark - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/farewells</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Farewells</image:title>
      <image:caption>Where is a farewell leading your character?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Farewells - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>English Ivy</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/propagation</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-27</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1629488012895-ALE8UCTSCJS4PSBIB4MC/IMG-2052.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Propagation</image:title>
      <image:caption>Creeping Stonecrop</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Propagation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>English Ivy</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/a-characters-mantra</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-20</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1628890725113-994P0N94UWMW1VRR6PLN/IMG-2021.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Character's Mantra</image:title>
      <image:caption>Just for a bit, allow your character a slow, deep breath.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Character's Mantra - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/a-little-rr</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-13</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1628279425450-TN0THUJTNLP51A1BSUJP/IMG-2011.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Little R&amp;amp;R</image:title>
      <image:caption>Just for a bit, allow your character a slow, deep breath.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1628278628781-0WNHHG76UBHEWQHEEK2X/IMG-2010.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - A Little R&amp;amp;R - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/through-different-eyes</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-06</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1627577792711-G7QTHRAJR5W8ZUN1C8QS/IMG-2001.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Through Different Eyes</image:title>
      <image:caption>How do parts of the environment interact with and influence one another?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Through Different Eyes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/slowing-down</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-07-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1626455133860-42Y1GXQ1I862JVI8CBC8/IMG-1794+%282%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Slowing Down - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1626454134481-1WARRVVFXC33B2BK1R2J/IMG-1796+%281%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Slowing Down - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1626454098993-56ILIJUXW3A473TY2FUT/IMG-1838.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Slowing Down - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1626454505092-Z2NOHSCMJ2WIWM0C7XKM/IMG-1944.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Slowing Down - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/family-past-present-and-future</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-07-16</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1625242705873-4KU18FN2X1I65UDB9W3N/IMG-1621.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Family Past, Present, and Future</image:title>
      <image:caption>The echoes of our characters’ families often ring loud in their present and future.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1625242771930-MD1XR2G96OSQAC72012P/IMG-1622.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Family Past, Present, and Future - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/finding-the-wonder</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-07-03</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1625175758792-B2W4CNGQUPME8RUE7QQE/IMG-1617.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Finding the Wonder - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1625175687721-1AVDUZUCS3P62Z4KZXT3/IMG-1616.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Finding the Wonder</image:title>
      <image:caption>Our characters are more than our words!</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Finding the Wonder - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/vocation-vocation-vocation</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-07-01</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1624648030359-9HX0AVIS7B96P4HL5DOX/IMG-1600+%281%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Vocation, Vocation, Vocation</image:title>
      <image:caption>How does employment shape our characters’ needs and ambitions?</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1624648100114-5CV7DPQ2RJYCALKHXUM1/IMG-1601+%281%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Vocation, Vocation, Vocation - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/whole-body-immersion</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1624055584725-HG2JG003FLWVFICI9KBQ/IMG-1579.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Whole Body Immersion</image:title>
      <image:caption>Take a deep breath through your nose, and notice the scents around you right now!</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1624055694809-QQTL0TWQPMQHGON5AKEY/IMG-1578.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Whole Body Immersion - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/back-to-our-storytelling-roots</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-18</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1623425266039-5MFNI8O579N1KQ1SXG5X/IMG-1566+%281%29.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Back to Our Storytelling Roots</image:title>
      <image:caption>Remember the stories that first inspired you to create!</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1623425448919-HQXFGDGZEA1BG9G3O7QH/IMG-1563+%281%29.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Back to Our Storytelling Roots - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/coming-home</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-11</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1617145025944-96MEF7V15KWQVN5TDAAB/Ten+of+Cups.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Coming Home</image:title>
      <image:caption>What is our character coming home to?</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/challenging-our-characters</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1614372789313-MS3XV5GPKNR2KE6C5O11/Father+of+Swords.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Challenging our Characters to Tell the Truth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Challenge a character who thinks they know everything and encourage them to tell the truth!</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/traveling-in-darkness</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-26</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1612294835564-A5D4BLMO1GH5THBIPPSW/Moon.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Traveling in Darkness</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sometimes a formless phase can be freeing!</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/pausing-under-the-archway</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-02</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1610222075875-KW64OCOER1YRIL53XTJ6/TFATP+Ten+of+Pentacles.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Pausing Under the Archway</image:title>
      <image:caption>Your work now, and how you evolve it, is a culmination of all the energy, effort, and experimentation you’ve put into your writing so far.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/alex-and-the-write-now</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-11-28</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1606593780612-FBP3V24JVA70QP3XSTL1/jpeg+cover+alexandra-and-the-awful-awkward-no-fun-truly-bad-dates-9781646040667_hr.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Alex and the Write NOW Revisited!</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/pause-and-ponder</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-01-09</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1604097879902-MMQKFUJ3HN9E3YOYTG8P/TFATP+Candle+Prompt+Image.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Let the Character Pause and Breathe In Deep</image:title>
      <image:caption>Let the character pause and ponder, as you pause and ponder.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/2020/9/14/write-this</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-10-30</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599003362567-TO8FI2IJXLVQAJ6JEYM1/Vietnam+Write+This.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
      <image:caption>Write this. Take eight minutes to write what you see. Simple as that. Double the time if you like.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599005346190-M9OLFLCTD04IZAPCXNWL/Cicada%2BWrite%2BThis.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599003984675-QDL781K2E7HVW9L7OLHP/Waving+Grass+Write+This.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599004003225-HJLQX3ESUPHQX34DIFWZ/Vietnam+Write+This.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599004126844-Y2XFYZZUMMB86L2MUNK9/Screen+Shot+2020-09-01+at+6.47.02+PM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599004129834-KI44PCVTTONIWR76IJIH/Screen+Shot+2020-09-01+at+6.47.17+PM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599005444089-CBVGQJNMAQJZBHICVP4Y/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-01%2Bat%2B6.47.36%2BPM.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1599004185213-WYW1UMXV6E4NSDS5WHRH/Screen+Shot+2020-09-01+at+6.48.13+PM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - ICYMI: Write This—Images + Prompt</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/2020/8/1/new-old-words</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-08-03</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1596331824113-E5FKR7ZH1FIBJM9QU09D/The+Beginning+Place.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - New Old Words</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/2020/3/1/hunting-and-gathering</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-05-01</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1587226008004-TVPF9Z1JYXS5VH8U6BLX/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - Hunting and Gathering</image:title>
      <image:caption>Inanimate objects can contain a lot of life.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://bluestonewriters.com/prompts/2020/3/1/borrowing-big-language</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-04-18</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d937f02e69cf94cd90de5c/1583194288978-1LGSV1JVJNQC2ZKCZGVX/field-of-texas-bluebonnet-998065.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prompts and Author Interviews - The Words Go Where They Will</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
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