Get your timer out and set it for 15 or 20 minutes and begin writing about “transformation”.

Transformation can have a lot of good things and bad things that come with it.  It can be physical or a state of mind.  Write and see where it takes you.

After NaNoWriMo the novel sometimes gets shoved into a drawer and stays there.  I have a dare for you.

Take it out and send the first 500 words of your novel (or a short story) to the Muse Marquee for their Hook Contest.  You’re giving them permission to publish it and publicly critique it.  Can you handle it?  (Yes, you can use a pseudonym.)  The contest deadline is August 15th, 2009.

This Friday I challenge you to write a book review for a book you recently finished, or the one you’re currently reading.

1. Pick a number between 1 and 180.

2. Pick another number between 1 and 180.

3. Now pick north or south.

4. Now east or west.

5. Combine your answers from 1 and 3.

6. Combine your answers from 2 and 4.

This gives you the lattitude and longitude for a very specific point on the map. Find out where that location is (google is your friend) and write a story or a poem with that as the setting.