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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 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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