And Now We Write

  • 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 47: Writing Exercise – What’s This Really About

    Our dialogue exercises this month will mostly focus on the technical mechanics of dialogue writing — but not today. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a scene where a couple argues about a small issue (who left the porch light on? whose turn is it to cook dinner?). The argument they seem to be having…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 46: Writing Exercise – Love That Song

    In the US, we celebrate Valentine’s Day in February. This day is usually seen as a celebration of romantic love, but love is a many-splendored thing. We love our parents, we love our pets, we love writing, we love New York. This month we’ll be writing about love in all its forms. For today’s ten-minute…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 44: Writing Exercise – Direct and Indirect Dialogue

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a back-and-forth conversation between two people who are catching…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 43: Writing Exercise – Show Me Love

    In the US, we celebrate Valentine’s Day in February. This day is usually seen as a celebration of romantic love, but love is a many-splendored thing. We love our parents, we love our pets, we love writing, we love New York. This month we’ll be writing about love in all its forms. For today’s ten-minute…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 41: Writing Exercise – Dialogue Tag Placement

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: Write a back-and-forth conversation between two people who are trying…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 40: Writing Exercise – Puppy Love

    In the US, we celebrate Valentine’s Day in February. This day is usually seen as a celebration of romantic love, but love is a many-splendored thing. We love our parents, we love our pets, we love writing, we love New York. This month we’ll be writing about love in all its forms. For today’s ten-minute…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 38: Writing Exercise – Dialogue Tag Variations

    Our dialogue exercises this month, with a couple of exceptions, will focus on the mechanics of dialogue writing. The subject of the conversation is less important than the effect of specific mechanistic choices or constraints that we’ll be playing with. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: It is the current conventional wisdom (and style) to use…

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