And Now We Write

  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 34: Writing Exercise – Love Blooms

    In the US, we celebrate Valentine’s Day in February. This day is usually seen as a celebration of romantic love, but love is a many-splendored thing. We love our parents, we love our pets, we love writing, we love New York. This month we’ll be writing about love in all its forms. For today’s ten-minute…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 29: Writing Exercise – Set the Plot in Motion

    This January, we’ve been working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. This is our final exercise on beginnings! For now anyway! Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: In her flash fiction collection Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich starts every story with “The thing about being the murdered blank is you set…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 18: Writing Exercise – Opening Images

    This January, we’ll be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: In a cold, quiet forest, a girl in a faded red canvas coat looks up at the midnight moon. I just told you the closing image of a story. Brainstorm opening images…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 14: Writing Exercise – Wait, Let Me Start Again

    In January, we’ll be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: Write a story in first person, in which the narrator keeps changing their mind about where to begin. Our themes this month are: We’ll also be writing a complete work of flash…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 10: Writing Exercise – First Line Telephone

    In January, we’ll be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: Take the first line of a work in progress and play a game of telephone. On a new line, rewrite it, but you must change at least one word. On a new…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 6: Writing Exercise – Beginning Just Right

    In January, we’ll be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: Brainstorm first lines for a telling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. As many as you can. Warm up trying different wordings of a straightforward opening line, but if you start losing…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 2: Writing Exercise – Start From The Middle

    This month, several of our daily writing exercises will be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: Take a work in progress or a story you know well. Rewrite the story, but start from the middle. You may only communicate backstory circumstantially. Do…

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