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

1. Overnight the snow had thawed to reveal ………
2. Squeals and chaos followed ………
3. The daily 5 mile jog helped ………

Set your timer for 20 minutes, write the title at the top of your page, and start writing.  Simple, yes?

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Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order isn’t important, just make sure you use them all.  The super-star challenge today is to use all 10 in a piece of short fiction that is a complete story in less than 300 words!

• Copious
• Flip-flops
• Glaze
• Homework
• Interrogate
• Knitted
• Panel
• Sizzle
• Terminate
• Waterfall

Today’s creative writing exercise is to write a scene where your protagonist attends a dance.  What kind of dance, who they take with them, what happens there etc is all up to you! 

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Imagine waking up one morning and finding that cell phones were illegal.  Write about how you would feel.  Would this affect your life in a positive or a negative way?  Have you ever tried going without your cell phone for 24-48 hours (no texting/calls incoming or outgoing) either because you wanted to consciously take a break from it, or because you left it at home?  Did you enjoy the experience or did it make you unsettled?  How much of a slave to your cell phone are you?

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

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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.