8/30/19

Summer Writing Exercise Series #66: Three Things Times Two

#52 For today's writing exercise, since it is the final exercise in the Summer Writing Exercise Series, we'll be doing a double-version of three things, that's right, you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #65: Repetition with the King of the Hill

8/30/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Repetition, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#65 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following phrase at least four times (non-sequentially): "One child remained standing." Think of this both literally and...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #64: One of Two Endings with a Violin

8/29/2019 12:00:00 AM Beginning and Ending, Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Last Line, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#64 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which ends with one of the following sentences—think of it like starting a maze from the end. Sentence 1: The night hung on the violin's...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #63: Title Mania on Cobblestones

8/28/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Title Mania, Writing Exercise

#63 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: Vibrations Some...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #62: Erasing The Crystal Egg 6

8/27/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Erasure, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#62 For today's exercise we have split paths for fiction and poetry, though I highly recommend that even fiction writers try the poetry exercise. If you insist on fiction, write a piece that begins with the phrase "He...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #61: 3x5x5 Wordbank 9

8/26/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Wordbank, Writing Exercise

#61 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 five (5) times using...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #60: Ekphrastic Horseride

8/25/2019 12:00:00 AM Classic Writing Exercises, Daily Notebooking, Ekphrastic exercise, Fiction Exercise, Image-based Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#60 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 the painting "Couple Riding" from 1906 by Wassily Kandinsky. Whether...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #59: Repetition with a Burger

8/24/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Repetition, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#59 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following phrase at least four times (non-sequentially): "It was just one burger." Think of this both literally and metaphorically,...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #58: Three Things at the Movies

8/23/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Three Things, Writing Exercise

#58 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following three things. Nice and simple. If you're not intimately familiar with these things do a little reading and see if...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #57: Title Mania in the Forest

8/22/2019 12:08:00 PM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Title Mania, Writing Exercise

#57 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...

The Publishing Life: 89 Literary Journals, Magazines and Reviews opening for creative writing submissions on September 1st, (2020 updated)

8/21/2019 11:33:00 AM Fall Submissions, Literary Magazines, The Publishing Life, The Submission Life

Literary Journals, Magazines and Reviews opening for creative writing submissions September 1st, 20192020 September is quickly approaching and that means many college journals (among others) are reopening for submissions....

Summer Writing Exercise Series #56: One of Two Starts at the Lake

8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, First Line, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#56 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which begins with one of the following sentences. Sentence 1: There weren't waves to surf at the lake, but we made it our ocean. Sentence...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #55: Micro 101 Episode 003 Cars, Cars, Cars

8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Flash Fiction, Hint Fiction, Micro Fiction, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Sudden Fiction, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#55 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. Don't worry about them not containing a complex message. Aim...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #54: 3x5x5 Wordbank 8

8/18/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Wordbank, Writing Exercise

#54 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 five (5) times using...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #53: Repetition and a Song

8/17/2019 12:18:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Repetition, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#53 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following phrase at least four times (non-sequentially): "And they sang." Think of this both literally and metaphorically,...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #52: Three Things and a Side of Fries

8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Three Things, Writing Exercise

#52 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following three things. Nice and simple. If you're not intimately familiar with these things do a little reading and see if...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #51: Title Mania en route to Alpha Centuri

8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Title Mania, Writing Exercise

#51 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: Rat...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #50: One of Two Endings Emdashed on the Rocks

8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM Beginning and Ending, Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Last Line, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#50 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which ends with one of the following sentences—think of it like starting a maze from the end. Sentence 1: "Vodka on the rocks—and no fruit...

For Your Enjoyment: A conversation with former US Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner W.S. Merwin at his home in Hawai'i

8/12/2019 11:26:00 PM For Your Enjoyment, For Your Poetic Enjoyment, Poetry Videos

I got to see WS Merwin read once while I was in graduate school and he was great. His contemplative poetry often takes nature as its subject and while not overly complicated, his poems have a great resonance to them. In this conversation with W.S. Merwin at his home in Hawai'i his connection to the...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #49: Repetition at the Dry Well

8/12/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Repetition, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#43 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following phrase at least four times (non-sequentially): "The well has gone dry." Think of this both literally and metaphorically,...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #48: Three Things at the Dam

8/11/2019 06:44:00 PM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Three Things, Writing Exercise

#48 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which contains the following three things. Nice and simple. If you're not intimately familiar with these things do a little reading and see if...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #47: 3x5x5 Wordbank 7

8/09/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Wordbank, Writing Exercise

#47 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 five (5) times using...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #46: Title Mania with Bamboo

8/08/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Title Mania, Writing Exercise

#46 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: Shiny Note...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #45: Erasing The Crystal Egg 5

8/07/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Erasure, Fiction Exercise, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#45 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 beginning with the sentence "He told a complicated...

Summer Writing Exercise Series #44: One of Two Starts Near Death

8/05/2019 12:00:00 AM Daily Notebooking, Fiction Exercise, First Line, Notebooking Daily, Poetry Exercise, Summer Writing Exercise Series, Writing Exercise

#44 For today's writing exercise you will write a piece of poetry or prose which begins with one of the following sentences. Sentence 1: It wasn't laughing at death, but at inevitability. Sentence 2: Its claws were...

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