Archive for March, 2008

The final story seeds for March

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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

  1. A shot rang out across the ………
  2. It had always been this way, and as far as Marny could see, there wasn’t any chance of ………
  3. The exploitation of ………

A Weave-a-word Challenge today.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Use all of the following in a piece of flash fiction - that’s 250 words or less! 

  1. Abstain
  2. Courage
  3. Domain
  4. Foster
  5. Leaving
  6. Mermaid
  7. Rattle
  8. Startle
  9. Willow
  10. Yearling

Timers at the ready for this morning’s exercise.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Type the title at the top of the page, set your timer for 20 minutes and then see where the theme of the exercise takes you.  Fiction or non-fiction, the choice is yours!

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An exercise in scene setting today.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Write a piece of fiction or non-fiction where a picnic plays an important role.  Use apporpriate language that shows the setting both in terms of location and time for the picnic.

Time to Do-Over

Monday, March 24th, 2008

If you had the opportunity to “do-over” one particular time in your school life what would it be?  Write a journal entry about how that day was, and how it would be if you could go back and do it over - would you do it the same, or would it have a different outcome?

Another row of story seeds is planted.

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Use any of the following as the first words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction. 

  1. As usual the coffee served at the ………
  2. Fishing had been his passion - right up until that day when ………
  3. “And so what am I supposed to do now?”  I asked the ………

Here’s speaking to you kid!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

An exercise in writing dialogue today.

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A midweek weave-a-word challenge for today.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Use all of the following a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order doesn’t matter as long as you use them all.  Use them all in a piece of writing less than 350 words in length and give yourself a virtual gold star!

  1. Bloated
  2. Error
  3. Image
  4. Kennel
  5. Minor
  6. Pungent
  7. Quiet
  8. Scratch
  9. Tumor
  10. Waiver

Timers at the ready for this morning’s exercise.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Set your timer for 20 minutes, write the title at the top of your page and then see where your creativity takes you.

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What’s your reality?

Monday, March 17th, 2008

You’ve been offered a large amount of money to appear in the reality show of your choice.  Write about the show you’d choose (make one up if you don’t want to choose an existing one), and explain why you’d choose this particular kind of reality show instead of one of the others.