Hey, guys! Don't forget: this week you must commit to writing at least 30 minutes every day. Don't worry about a final product, just try to write freely for those 30 minutes each day, and see what you come up with.
Choose five of the following exercises to get your creative juices flowing!
1. Read a newspaper and free-write about something you find there.
2. Write a letter to an old friend. (Don't send it)
3. Do a physical activity you've never tried before. (Write about your experience.)
4. Say no to plans with someone who you find boring. (Write about your feelings afterward.)
5. Read one of your favorite poems aloud five times, choose one phrase from it, and use it as a springboard
for free-writing. (suggested poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Shakespeare,
Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost..)
6. Look at family photographs. Imagine the photo that was never taken. What might it have revealed?
Write about it.
7. Use persona as a writing tool. Choose either a stranger you saw during the course of the day or someone
you know well. Make up a childhood event in that person's life. Imagine how he or she would remember
it or tell it. Write it down.
Active Alliteration:
Practice alliteration by coming up with as many words as you can that begin with the same consonant. Try to come up with unique interesting words by using a thesaurus or dictionary.
Don't forget, you also need to write 2 pages of your short story this week. It does not have to be the first two pages. You may decide to write the ending, or a critical scene in your story. You may decide to write 2 page of dialogue between two characters, and then in the editing process later choose what to keep.
Thanks for your hard work!!!
See you Friday!
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