And Now We Write

  • 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 9: Writing Exercise – Jeremiad

    This month, we’re featuring a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. If you like these and you can swing it, I encourage you to get a copy. Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is a simplified version of #119, Jeremiad: Describe something fairly ordinary, in a…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 8: Writing Exercise – It Slices, It Dices

    Using a well-established form of writing that is not straight narrative prose can catch the eye of a casual reader and force the writer to improvise to adopt the conventions of the borrowed form. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a script for a late-night commercial marketing something unglamorous, like a chair or a thumbnail.…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 7: Writing Exercise – Cat’s-Eye View

    For a handful of exercises this month, we’ll look to works from the long and living legacy of Japanese literature for sparks of inspiration. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: In Natsume Sosheki’s I Am A Cat, a supercilious housecat tells stories about the foolishness of the people around him. Have a hoity toity housecat narrate…

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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 5: Writing Exercise – Exploring First-Person Plural Narration

    Today’s exercise from Brian Kitely’s The 3am Epiphany involves a first-person plural narration.

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 4: Writing Exercise – Horoscopes

    The exercise encourages writing horoscopes as a storytelling medium.

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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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