The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:
One of the most popular plots is rags to riches. Watch this clip from Annie, one of my favorite rags to riches stories. After watching spend twenty minutes writing your own version of a rag to riches story. It doesn’t necessarily have to include a cute short redhead with dimples!
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For the poetry writers. Your topic is: the effects of commercialism on young women.
Your form is: free write for ten minutes then read it over drawing out the best points and arranging the words into a sharp point using how many words necessary to create the peak.
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Study the image for a few minutes then write about it.
horse in rain image copyright Henrique Vicente, flickr
Journal about something you’ve always wanted to make but have not had the skills or time to do.
Here’s a weekend quote to journal about:
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
~ George Eliot
Greetings writers! It has recently come to my attention that Feedburner doesn’t appear to be sending out the writing prompts daily. In the past the prompts have been set up to be available for you at 5 a.m. on the blog and via the email responder shortly after. I recently changed the settings to just after midnight and between 3 and 5 a.m. so I hope that will help you receive them early enough in the day. I’m looking for other options but haven’t found anything viable yet. In the meantime, if you could answer this poll for me to let me know how many of you are experiencing problem I would really appreciate it.
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Loading ...The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week:
I met Court down by Rayborn’s swimming hole. He splashed me on purpose and I got mad at him on purpose. He laughed, I flipped my wet hair and swam away. I didn’t think he would…
Set your timer and for the next fifteen minutes and write something using these twelve words. The order of the words can be switched around as necessary. The choice of whether you write fiction or non-fiction is up to you.
- wish
- track
- wound
- drum
- cut-offs
- water
- yellow
- spend
- loving
- bus
- slick
- denim
Thirteen
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a rusty chain.
Your form is: three stanza of three lines each. The first word of the first line of each stanza must be the last word of the third line in the second and third stanza. The last one must scoop back around to the last line of the first stanza.
1 – A
2
3 – C
1 – B
2
3 – A
1 – C
2
3 – B
Study the image for a few minutes then write about it.
