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

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How did your character spend New Year’s Eve? Were they alone, did they attend a big party? Write a scene that places your character where you think they would be as the clock struck midnight, heralding the new year.

Often writers are given strict guidelines to follow by editors of magazines. This exercise has similar rules! You may write whatever genre you feel comfortable in, perhaps you may even find yourself writing a fictional news story, but you must keep true to the three compulsory elements.

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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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What makes your blood boil? Write a journal entry about what makes you really angry.