I keep a list of potential topics/prompts. When something comes to mind, I write it down in one or two files. (one on my system and the other in my phone, it all depends on where I'm at when it hits me)

Before a season/mini season/special event starts, I'll go over those potential prompts and decide which ones I'm going to use. In the old days, I would actually map out "this is Week 5... Week 22..." etc. Which did lead to some unfortune concoindences where something that hit one way 6 months before, hit a different way when it was scheduled to be unleashed on the unsuspecting writers.

As the years have progressed, I've given myself some wiggle room and made it more "this is around where I want this" but have allowed myself the freedom of bringing in something that felt better at the moment or bumping something that felt like it wasn't the right time for it. 

I bring this up because there are some prompts on my list that keep getting bumped season after season. Because it's never the right time. 

This mini season I pulled one of the oldest prompts I have left and put it on the schedule for this week... I first put it on the list in 2014. I know it's going to hit a bit differently now than it did then... but it's still very appropriate for the week, and for the international group of writers that are assembled here. 

What is it? 

America 

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