Today’s exercise for fiction writers is to write the dialogue for the following:

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Use the following words in a piece of fiction, or non-fiction.  As always, the order in which you use them is unimportant, as long as you use them all.

1. Abyss
2. Baseball
3. Carols
4. Feline
5. Hem
6. Jog
7. Leaf
8. Pottery
9. Slander
10. Walnut

Following on from yesterday’s exercise, today your creative mission is to write an acceptance speech for an award.  This could be an award as a great parent, or a fabulous writer ….or if you aspire to act, why not think big and write your acceptance speech for your Oscar!    When you’re finished being modest about your talent and thanking everyone you need to for helping to achieve this precious prize, read your speech aloud and see if you’ve managed to do so in your allocated 45 seconds!

The annual Oscar ceremony was held a few days ago and statues given to those in the movie making business that the powers that be thought worthy.  Today’s exercise is to think about these ceremonies and write an opinion essay.  Perhaps you think they are great entertainment.  Perhaps you think that there are other professions that are more deserving of this kind of attention.  Perhaps you think that it’s just a publicity stunt to get more people to go to the movies and increase the profits for the movie companies.  Whatever you think, remember it’s a personal opinion so it can’t be wrong but it should be substantiated by reasons why you have this opinion.

Use any of the following as the beginning of a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

• Bluebells were poking through when …….
• The branches of the trees were outstretched like skeleton hands as the snow came down on ……..
• On this day, ten years ago ……

Today your exercise is to write about ice, without actually using the word.  Your finished piece when read aloud should allow someone who can’t see ice understand what it is.

Use the following 10 words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order isn’t important, but you must weave all 10 into your work.  Virtual chocolate to anyone who can do this in 250 words or less.

• Abolish
  
• Blizzard
  
• Cowboy

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Write an opinionated essay about the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.  Did you think there was too much in the media about the games?  Did you think you were given a biased viewpoint in your local newspaper/TV channels?  Did you follow them with interest or did the hype leave you cold?  Did you think it was a Olympic Dream or a Olympic Disaster?

Use any of the following to begin a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

1. Shona watched as Jed’s spade suddenly stopped digging in the ………
2. Rainbows had always held a special attraction to ………
3. Floods at that time of year were ………

With so many things to do each day, most of us find that procrasination prevents us from getting as many ticks on the daily “to do” list as we should have managed.  How do you handle procrastination in your life?  Or is it handling you?

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