Yesterday was my nephew’s sport’s day and provides the inspiration for this morning’s exercise.

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Dialogue is a stumbling block for many writers.  Take a look at the following scenario and then write the dialogue:

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Start you piece of fiction or non-fiction with any of the following and see where your creativity takes you:

1. Zack’s hands flew across the keyboard as he ………
2. The bride looked serene, beautiful and miraculously cool as she stood next to my Brad - whilst I on the other hand ………
3. Sorting trash to help protect the environment is ………

The age of electronic gadgets is well and truly underway.  What with portable jukeboxes we take everywhere, to the timer’s that ensure that the meal is cooked on time, and that lamps go on so we never come home to a dark house, it’s hard not to be affected by them in some way.

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This morning is an exercise in description. 

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Close your eyes.  In your imagination visualize a box on a table in front of you.  Take a good look at the box.  Now, set your timer for 15 minutes and write about the box you see - it can be pure description, you can “open” the box, you can write a short story - use the visualization for the jumping off point on this exercise.

Take a look at the room that you’re currently sitting in.  Write a review about it!  You can either accentuate the postive, highlight the negative, journal about what you’d love to do to the way that it looks - anything that comes to mind as you look around the room.

Start your writing with one of the following, and then see where your creativity can take it:

1. On a date I think that women should ……
2. Amber hated this time of day.  It always reminded her of ……
3. There was a faint echo of thunder across the valley on the day that ……

There’s a deckchair on the sand, a closed laptop it’s only occupant.  Beside it, a large blanket on which are placed a cooler box, 2 small digging spades and a sand pail.  There’s a large dark cloud in the sky overhead.  The ocean is calm and the tide is coming in, each wave a little further up the shore than the one before it.  What’s the story?  Where does your creativity take you - something family orientated, something a little sinister, perhaps a memory from your younger days - write about what this little mind picture brings to your mind!

In view of the fact that I’ll probably be in the air - with hubby, 2 preschoolers and 2 stuffies (our “special” kids! LOL) today your exercise is to write an article or short story with the title “The Flight”.   What kind of flight is up to you.  It can be fact or fiction.  Length is up to you, but set your timer for 15 minute and see how far you get.

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