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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 9: Writing Exercise – Jeremiad
This month, we’re featuring a handful of prompts from The 3am Epiphany by Brian Kitely, a book of over 200 writing exercises. If you like these and you can swing it, I encourage you to get a copy. Today’s ten-minute writing exercise is a simplified version of #119, Jeremiad: Describe something fairly ordinary, in a…
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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 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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2025 Writing Challenge Day 5: Writing Exercise – Exploring First-Person Plural Narration
Today’s exercise from Brian Kitely’s The 3am Epiphany involves a first-person plural narration.
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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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2025 Writing Challenge Day 1: Writing Exercise – Tell a Bedtime Story
This month features prompts from The 3am Epiphany; today’s exercise involves telling an improvised bedtime story to children.
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