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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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  • Kickstart Your 2025: Daily Writing Exercises Preview

    The New Year is almost here! And in 2025, my biggest resolution is to write for ten minutes a day, every day. So I’ve pre-loaded writing exercises & prompts for the month of January, and will be posting them here and on And Now We Write for anyone who wants to join in. The real…

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  • Daily 10-Minute Writing Exercises for 2025

    All right, gearing up for the New Year here, and planning to write for at least ten minutes a day every day in 2025. I’ve got January mapped out so far: As I’ve been pre-loading writing exercises for the month of January, I’ve decided to post quickie recordings of these exercises as a daily no-homework,…

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