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5 Words

Huushiita — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:03:28 +0000

Today’s five words are, in no particular order:

scream, lust, cloth, pierced, and oblivion. Good luck!

-Huushi

Titles

Amber — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:28:33 +0000

If you’ve been playing along with my lists this month you should have:

Today we’re going to make a list of titles. They can be short story or novel titles. These should be made up.

~Amber

5 Words

Huushiita — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:33:38 +0000

For today’s exercise, put in the following five words into your novel, or poem. Good luck!

Extravagant, spoil, rush, twist, and height.

-Huushi

The Drawer

Amber — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:47:55 +0000

I’m late in posting Monday’s exercise. Earlier this month you made a list of 10 bands. Now make a list of 10 things you’d find in a drawer.

~Amber

5 Words

Huushiita — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:57:46 +0000

We’re back! I hope everybody’s holidays were good. Now that we’re all refreshed and (hopefully) rearing to go, try to put these five words into your novel or poem.

black, moody, cold, petulant, and feral.

Good luck!

-Huushi

High School Take II

Rhonda — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:23:42 +0000

If you could relive your junior high or high school years what would you do differently?

Pick three or four things and write a letter to a younger brother, sister or friend about to enter junior or high school giving them advice based on your expiriences and what you’d do differently. Make sure you give them enough details to really make your point.

(For non-Canadians junior high is grades 7-9 and high school is 10-12… or 13, depending on your province)

Exercise adapted from an essay topic suggestion in “The Writing Process” by John M. Lannon and David B. Parson.

~ Rhonda

Happy New Year!

Amber — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:37:35 +0000

Happy New Year!

December was kind of a slow month due to the holidays and recuperating from NaNoWriMo. Now that it’s January it’s time to jump back onto the writing wagon.

Today’s exercise is a really simple one to start things off. (And it will come back around later.)

Make a list of 10 band names.

As always, feel free to share your work or leave a comment that you did this exercise.
~Amber

New Genre

Rhonda — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:24:14 +0000

This week write a poem or short story in a genre you’ve never written before or re-write one of your short stories or poems to be from a different genre than it was originally.

~Rhonda

Making a Difference

Rhonda — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:46:59 +0000

Write about a situation in which your writing (or someone elese’s) has made a difference.

Prompt taken from an exercise in THE WRITING PROCESS by John M. Lannon and David B. Parsons

~Rhonda

Monday’s First Lines

Amber — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:09:13 +0000

We had so much fun a few months ago with first lines I thought we could work on some more. Below are some first lines. Rewrite them to make them more engaging to hook the reader.
~Amber

The dog belly flopped into the pool.
An alien zapped me with laser beams from his eyes.
I couldn’t believe I was standing in front of my hero.
Hail pelted the windows.
We were going to be rock stars at any cost.