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September 24, 2019
2019 Day 25 – Assembly
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story Featuring an Assembly or Crowd Scene
You can tell the story of a song or simply use it in the story.
Normally I caution against having too many people in a short story, but today I want you to practice filling the scene with a crowd…but still focusing on your main characters.
There’s lots of potential for noise, color, and action in this one!
Go!
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September 23, 2019
2019 Day 24 – Song Title
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story Inspired by A Song Title
You can tell the story of a song or simply use it in the story.
Here are a couple of resources
An A-Z of Song Titles – if you feel the need to pick randomly
– for those of you who like to play fast-and-loose with the rules
Go!
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September 22, 2019
2019 Day 27 – Opening Line
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
OPENING LINE: NEVER TELL ANYONE YOUR REAL NAME
Start your story with that line today.
Go!
So how’s it going this week? Are you tired or have you caught your second wind?
Are you desperate to get back to novel-writing? Or have you discovered a new love for the short form?
What parts of this month’s successes will you take forward into your other writing?
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2019 Day 23 – A Picture
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story Inspired by This Painting
Richard Norris Brooke (American, 1847 – 1920), A Pastoral Visit, 1881, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund) 2014.136.119Go!
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September 21, 2019
2019 Day 22 – Word List
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story Containing These Words
distinct, weak, volunteered, slow, coming,
time, duress, suspected, shimmy, listened.
If you’re feeling brave, post the story in the comments, or on your own blog and link to it (like so many of you have been doing already).
Underline or bold the key words, or just let us read the story without noticing them.
This is a silly exercise designed to lower the bar on your expectations. But you may be surprised at what you manage to do with this prompt!
Go!
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September 20, 2019
2019 Day 21 – One-Sided
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story Where We Only Hear One Side of The Conversation
Go!
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September 19, 2019
2019 Day 20 – Epistolary Story
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write A Story In The Form Of Letters
An epistolary story is one that is written in:
letters, memos, texts, voicemail messages, video messages…anything that is communicated directly to another character, not in real time.Make this conversation between two or more characters.Make sure to give everyone a distinctive voice, Think about how we communicate in writing vs in dialogue and how a character’s voice might change in writing, when they are in no danger of being interrupted and can explain themselves fully.
Go!
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September 18, 2019
2019 Day 19 – 3 Perspectives
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Write The Same Incident From Three Different Perspectives
Use this exercise to sink into character: how would different people tell the story of the same incident? What are their motivations? Who are they talking to? What are they hoping to achieve?
Go!
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September 17, 2019
2019 Day 18 – Prose Sonnet
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Don’t worry: you don’t have to know anything about poetry and you don’t have to make this rhyme!
Write A Story In 14 Sentences
That’s it!
(Sometimes different forms can be surprisingly freeing so if you hate this idea, try it anyway!!)
If you know about the different types of sonnets (or want to research them) you could echo the thematic ‘rules’ that sometimes apply.
But don’t waste to much time worrying about that. Just write a story in 14 sentences.
Go!
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September 16, 2019
2019 Day 17 -Aphorisms
How did you get on yesterday? Did you write a story?
Remember, set your own rules, and stick to them. If you miss a day, don’t try to catch up. Just keep moving forward!
The Prompt
Today we’re continuing our theme of weird story forms.
WRITE A STORY USING AN APHORISM FOR THE FIRST WORD IN EVERY SENTENCE
Places To Find Aphorisms
A List of 1800 English PhrasesKnow Your Phrase10 Old Sayings We Need To Bring Back
Go!
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