Archive for January, 2004

How brief can you be and yet manage to get all the relevant bits of information down? An exercise on "tight" writing this morning.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

Summarise how you remember 2003 - in less than 500 words.

The first weave-a-word challenge of the year awaits you.

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

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 year ahead is the topic of today’s exercise.

Monday, January 5th, 2004

List your goals for 2004, then write about the most important one, why is it so important and what steps can you take to achieve it.