Use any of the following story seeds as the beginning of a piece of fiction or non-fiction.

• The trick-or-treaters were at the door before Marlene had had a chance to ………
• There was something about this night that set it apart from other nights Carrie thought looking back over her ………
• Halloween is almost as commerical as ………

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Set your timer for 20 minutes, write the title at the top of your page, and off you go!

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Use all of the following words in a piece of fiction or non-fiction.  Word order doesn’t matter, but using them all is a must to complete the challenge!

1. Absense
2. Cobra
3. Feeble
4. Grand
5. Limpid
6. Orange
7. Quiver
8. Recount
9. Treble
10. Yield

Dialogue is one of the components of fiction writing that many writers find difficult.  Today’s exercise is to write the dialogue for the following scenario.

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The title of your essay is: “Too Much Month, Too Little Money!”  Fact or fiction is up to you!

Use any of the following story seeds to begin a piece of fiction or non-fiction:

• As the plane slowly backed away from its designated gate Sam realized that ………
• The date on the book was November 2nd, the warning came on November 1st, that must have meant ………
• Security was tight, but not tight enough to ………

Use the following words to write a piece of fiction (or non fiction) that gives a sense of time and place.  You don’t have to use the words as long as your piece of writing clearly identifies them.

• 2003
• Safari
• Storm

Make a choice, write the first words and then write the essay:

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What are you currently reading?  Write a short opinionated review of the book so far.  If you’re not reading anything, use the last thing that you read for the exercise.

No matter what your season is, take a walk outside and find a leaf - any leaf.  Take it home and describe it - think of shape, color, smell, feel, sound.