Write one piece twice, twenty-five words in one, a hundred in the other. Or a hundred first, then twenty-five. I chose the latter. Good fun.

If your the art of poetry mentor asks you to write the same piece about writing twice, using twenty-five words in one version and an even hundred in the second, would you write the big one first, then cut it back for the second try? Or would you write the small one first, then expand…