6/20/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #11: Micro 101 Episode 001

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#11 For today's writing exercise you will write a few micro-poems or micro-fictions. These will be either poems under 12 lines or stories under 100 words. For inspiration go read some micro or hint fiction in this Buzzfeed...

6/13/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #13: 3x5x5 Wordbank 2

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#13 For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process four times using different...

6/11/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #10: Erasing The Crystal Egg 1

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#10 For today's exercise we have split paths for fiction and poetry, though I highly recommend that even fiction writers try the poetry exercise. For fiction, write a piece with a repetition of the dialog sentence "Five...

6/10/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #9: 3x5x5 Wordbank 1

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#9 For today's writing exercise you will pick one word from each of three groups and write a sentence that includes all of the words, feel free to change tense, pluralize etc. Repeat the process four times using different...

6/8/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #8: Title Mania Saturday

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#8 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which uses one of the following as its title. For a bonus challenge, try to use as many of the titles in your piece as you can manage organically. Titles: Dropped...

6/7/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #7: One of Two Starts

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#7 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which begins with one of the following sentences. Sentence 1: The wind's roar echoed deep into the cave. Sentence 2: The car's merge was...

6/6/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #6: A Boy and his Bug

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#6 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which is inspired by the following piece of art. Photo by Arturo Sortillo You can write this from either the perspective of the boy or...

6/5/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #5: Five Words to Freedom

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#5 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following five words. Nice and simple. Words: Plopped Temporary Bandage Zipper Quota ------------------------------------ If...

6/4/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #4: First Lining it Up

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#4 For today's writing exercise you will go forth from a first line of my choosing. Where you go after that is up to you, but I'll add a couple other optional things to include if you would like a little more to work...

6/3/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #3: 3 Titles for the Third

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#3 For today, June third's writing exercise, or writing prompt if you sill, will be celebrating the number Three. I will provide three titles, you have a number of ways you can use them: A) Pick one title and write...

6/2/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #2: Ekphrastic gif

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#2 For today, we're going to write a poem or prose piece inspired by another piece of art or an ekphrastic piece. The piece of art in question is this gif from the amazing movie The Wind Rises: Whether you're writing...

6/1/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #1: 3 Things for a Start

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#1 For today, June's first writing exercise we will write pieces which include three things that must be integral to the story, as in don't have a line of throwaway dialog that uses the words to get them out of the way....