Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread.
About today's writing prompt genre: About today's writing prompt genre: Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is...
3/31/15
3/30/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 30, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Ekphrasis.
About today's writing prompt genre: Ekphrasis is from Greek meaning the description of a work of art as a rhetorical device. That's actually pretty straight forward, but another way to look at it, is it's highfalutin fan fiction, usually about paintings or pieces of...
3/29/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 29, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: The How-To.
About today's writing prompt genre: Today we'll work with the good old 'how-to' genre. Write a 'list poem' (or a regular poem) or a piece of prose that explains various ways or steps in how-to do something.
Today's how-to is...
How to rid yourself of everything you...
3/24/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 24, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints.
About today's writing prompt genre: This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed...
3/20/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 20, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Wordbank.
About today's writing prompt genre: For wordbank exercises take a few minutes to look through the following links which will have various lists of words. Pick out a dozen or so you like, whether for their uniqueness, their sound, even just their meaning, whatever the...
3/18/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 18, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints.
This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...
3/15/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 15, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Wordbank.
For wordbank exercises take a few minutes to look through the following links which will have various lists of words. Pick out a dozen or so you like, whether for their uniqueness, their sound, even just their meaning, whatever the reason, pick a bunch of words. If any...
3/12/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 12, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints.
This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...
3/8/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 8, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread.
Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original...
3/7/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 7, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints.
This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...
3/5/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 5, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread.
Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original...
3/3/15
Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 3, 2015
Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints.
This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...