And Now We Write

  • Flash Week Challenge Day 6: Writing Act Three

    Welcome back to Flash Week! Today is Day 6. If you’ve gotten this far, you have a four-act outline ready, you’ve drafted the first two acts, and you are ready to write Act Three of this story. If you missed the first five days, I recommend you go back and start from Day 1. We’ll…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 5: Writing Act Two

    Welcome back to Flash Week! Today is Day 5. If you’ve gotten this far, you have a four-act outline ready, you’ve drafted Act One, and you are ready to write Act Two of this story. If you missed the first four days, I recommend you go back and start from Day 1. We’ll be here…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 4: Writing Act One

    Welcome back to Flash Week! Today is Day 4. If you’ve gotten this far, you have a four-act outline ready, and you are ready to start writing the prose of this story. If you missed the first three days, I recommend you go back and start from Day 1. We’ll be here when you get…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 3: The Outline

    Welcome back to Flash Week! Today is Day 3. So far we have picked out our story ideas and fleshed out some thoughts on what we might want to include. If you missed the first two days, I recommend you go back and start from Day 1. We’ll be here when you get back. Well,…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 2: Images, Lines, and Notions

    Welcome back to Flash Week! Today is Day 2. Yesterday you brainstormed “story seeds” — the core of a flash fiction story you want to develop and write this week. For today, you have to pick ONE of those ideas to work on. Got it? Good. (And if you missed Day 1 of Flash Week,…

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  • Flash Week Challenge Day 1: Write a Flash Fiction in Just 10 Minutes a Day

    Welcome to Flash Week! I’ll host these once a month. We’ll have them the week 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…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 19: Writing Exercise – Sea Students

    For a handful of exercises this month, we’ll look to works from the long and living legacy of Japanese literature for sparks of inspiration. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: In Inter Ice Age 4, Kobo Abe imagined a world where children can be genetically engineered to live aquatically once the polar ice caps melt. Write…

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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 15: Writing Exercise – Eyewitness Testimony

    For a handful of exercises this month, we’ll look to works from the long and living legacy of Japanese literature for sparks of inspiration. For today’s ten-minute writing exercise: In the Akutagawa short story “In a Grove,” which was adapted into the movie Rashomon, a series of characters give testimony on the events leading up…

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