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

1. There was a calm air around the building, despite the arrival of ……
2. Grace looked out the window at the devestation left by last night’s ……
3. The beach was covered in bodies ……

There’s 15 (that’s write folks, 15!) words in this list - can you use them all in a cohesive piece of writing that’s 500 words or less?

1. Avid
2. Biscuit
3. Dangerous
4. Exit
5. Grave
6. Harvest
7. Kettle
8. Ligament
9. Miniscule
10. Opal
11. Race
12. Silver
13. Tremor
14. Unique
15. Zeal

Take a look at the following and write about something that it inspires within you - could be description, could be fiction, could be a memory - whatever the photo invokes, write it out!

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Set your timer for 20 minutes, then write whatever comes to mind under the title: “The Local News”.  No editing!

Are you welcoming to visitors who turn up at your front door unannounced, or do you make sure that anyone who could possibly visit you knows to give at least 48 hours notice of their impending arrival?  Do you have certain rooms that you allow them access to, or do you open your entire home to them?  Write a journal entry about your views on visitors to your home.

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

1. It sounded just like the screech of chalk against the board that she’d loathed as a child, only this time it was ……
2. Maribeth watched the two children splashing around in the ……
3. Deklan backed the pick-up against the ……

The only rule on this exercise is to use all of the words in the following list.  What you write, and the order they appear is up to you and your muse!

1. Distraught
2. Fiesty
3. Imaginable
4. Luscious
5. Migrate
6. Quantify
7. Pamper
8. Ruffle
9. Tiger
10. Unstable

Set your time for 20 minutes, write the heading “The Wallflower” at the top of your page, and then the write whatever comes into your head.  Fiction?  Non-fiction?  Poetry?  The choice is yours.  See where your creativity takes this exercise.

Well the summer is amost upon us - the weather’s here and midsummer is just around the corner.  What do you dread most about the coming few months?  What frustrates you about this time of year?  Or are you a sunflower who thrives during July/August/September and love this time of year?  Write about your thoughts of summer.

Today write about something that you put off doing as long as you possibly can.  Why do you procrastinate about doing this particular thing?  Does it ever take as long as you think it will?  Write about the main thing you dislike doing so much that you’d get someone else to do it for you if you possibly could!