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Original Posting 19 April 2009

Writer's Digest, October 2008, page 11, offers this writing prompt:

"Write about the last piece of something -- pie, real estate, posterity -- and the two people who want it." Excerpted from The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood

Built-in conflict. Who gets the prize, and what is all the maneuvering to get there? You could even start with a list of five or 10 different things that these people might be looking at. Food, housing, what do you like? What would you fight with someone else to get? Make your list, then consider the characters striving to grab that very last piece. And what's the resolution?

Did you really stab your sister with a fork over the last piece of chocolate chiffon cake?

Go ahead, write.