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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 28: Writing Exercise – Letters from Inside the Story
This month, we’ve tried a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. This is the last one we’ll be doing together this month. If you’ve been having a good time with these, or if they’ve been hard but constructive, I encourage you to grab a…
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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 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 4: Writing Exercise – Horoscopes
The exercise encourages writing horoscopes as a storytelling medium.