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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.…