And Now We Write

  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 14: Writing Exercise – Wait, Let Me Start Again

    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: Write a story in first person, in which the narrator keeps changing their mind about where to begin. Our themes this month are: We’ll also be writing a complete work of flash…

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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 11: Writing Exercise – Road Trip

    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: Shank’s Mare is a comic novel from the Edo period recounting stories from the road as two bawdy grifters travel from Edo to Kyoto. Their primary…

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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 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.…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 7: Writing Exercise – Cat’s-Eye View

    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 Natsume Sosheki’s I Am A Cat, a supercilious housecat tells stories about the foolishness of the people around him. Have a hoity toity housecat narrate…

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 4: Writing Exercise – Horoscopes

    The exercise encourages writing horoscopes as a storytelling medium.

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 3: Writing Exercise – List of Moving Things

    This month focuses on Japanese literature, featuring writing exercises inspired by works like The Pillow Book.

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  • 2025 Writing Challenge Day 2: Writing Exercise – Start From The Middle

    This month, several of our daily writing exercises will be working on first lines and beginnings in honor of the new year. Happy 2025! Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is: Take a work in progress or a story you know well. Rewrite the story, but start from the middle. You may only communicate backstory circumstantially. Do…

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