Idea Seeds! Start your page with any of the following and see where your creative muse takes you:

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What kind of a morning person is your main character? Write down his/her average workday schedule from the moment she wakes until she leave her home at the start of her daily activities.

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What are you most thankful for? Make a list of the people and things in your life that you are most thankful for, and then write about what makes one of them special to you.

Your exercise today is to incorporate all of the following words into an article, short story, poem or whatever comes to mind. You must use all of the words (in any order) to complete the exercise, but the context in which they are used is up to you. Think about the words for a few minutes before you start to write and see what pictures come to mind - then see if you can weave them all together into a piece of writing.

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What is the best thing you’ve bought this year?

Idea Seeds! Start your page with any of the following and see where your creative muse takes you:

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Write a dialogue scene for your main character where she reveals something about her past that she is ashamed of.

Set your timer for 15 minutes, right the words "Blaze of Color" at the top of your page and then start. Keep the writing going until your timer goes off. Fiction, non-fiction, personal memory – it doesn’t matter. Whatever the title brings to mind, write it down. When you timed session is over, read through what you’ve wrote – maybe there’s the start of a new work in progress there, or the bones of an article just needing some meat on it!

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Your exercise today is to incorporate all of the following words into an article, short story, poem or whatever comes to mind. You must use all of the words (in any order) to complete the exercise, but the context in which they are used is up to you. Think about the words for a few minutes before you start to write and see what pictures come to mind - then see if you can weave them all together into a piece of writing.

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The end of this year is approaching at a scary rate. Make a list anything that you’d like to accomplish before the end of the year, and then try and think of a time schedule to fit these tasks into your day.