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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 3: Outline Using Story Circles

    Welcome (back) to Flash Week! Today is Day 3. If you missed Day 1 and Day 2, go back and do those, and come back with a favorite core idea and some thoughts about what might be in your story. If you have been following along, make sure you have your thoughts from Day 2…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 2: Things That MIGHT Happen with Story Circles

    Welcome (back) to Flash Week! Today is Day 2. If you missed Day 1, go back and brainstorm story seeds, and come back with a favorite core idea that you want to build your story around. We’re completing a first draft of a story in just ten minutes a day, so time is tight. This…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 1: Complete A Draft with Story Circles in 7 Days

    Welcome to Flash Week! I host these once a month, starting the third Monday and going through the following Sunday.  We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. After the week is…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 31: Writing Exercise – User Agreement

    Using a well-defined text convention that is not 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: Using language as bloodless and legally flavored as possible, write a mobile app user agreement that grows increasingly…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 27: Writing Exercise – Who Is Right?

    Write an advice letter or Reddit post that’s seeking validation rather than advice …

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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 16: Writing Exercise – Reviewing the Reviewer

    Write a negative Yelp review and the response to it. Twist: the responder has found out …

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 12: Writing Exercise – Answer Me!

    Using a well-defined text convention that is not 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 series of texts, including emojis, from someone who messed up to the person they hurt. As…

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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 4: Writing Exercise – Horoscopes

    The exercise encourages writing horoscopes as a storytelling medium.

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