The 2021 Writing Series is a series of daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep their creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts take the impetus—that initial crystal of creation—out of your hands (for the most part) and changes your writing creation into creative problem solving. Instead of being preoccupied with the question "What do I write" you are instead pondering "How do I make this work?" And in the process you are producing new writing.
This is not a standard writing session. This is pure production—to keep your brain thinking about using language to solve simple or complex problems. The worst thing you can do is sit there inactive. It's like taking a 5 minute breather in the middle of a spin class—the point is to push, to produce something, however imperfect. If you don't overthink it, you will be able to complete all of the exercises in under 30 minutes.
For New Year's Eve I'm including a new prompt every 8 hours instead of just once a day.
3 for the price of... well, none.
First Line Bonanza 29
2) Mastering the violin does not happen in just a few hundred hours.
3) We watched the superheroes destroy our city without a thought and wondered if we'd been cheering for the wrong non-humans this whole time.
Bonus 'constraint': You must include a paragraph/stanza in which the all sentences or lines begin with the letter "A" (at least 3) and the piece must include three smells.
