Writing Assignment: Write About Your Breathing
One of the most important things for writers to learn is how to observe and record. It’s relatively easy when you’re observing something other than yourself. But when you turn your focus back at...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write A Message To Yourself To Read One Hour From Now
Time travel is possible. You will not require a DeLorean and stolen plutonium. All you really need is a pen and paper. Writing, one of the most remarkable human achievements, is something that we...
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Writing Assignments: Write An Eye-Witness Report
Trial witnesses are remarkably unreliable. Memory and recall are imperfect and malleable and can be manipulated by questioning. And yet, being there, seeing an event first hand, can yield powerful...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write About A Tennis Ball
I keep a tennis ball on my desk. I use it to exercise my left hand to keep up the therapy from repairing a badly broken finger (years past), and to help ease the tendonitis that may be either keyboard...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write A Complaint Letter To Yourself
It’s relatively easy to express our grievances to others. But can you point this same displeasure about service or quality of work back at yourself without letting your emotions run away into an angry...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write A Writing Prompt For Another Writer
Sometimes it is easier to urge others to action than to stimulate oneself in the same. Today we’ll try and do both. Writing prompts are short and very specific enticements to writers to help them...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write A Single Piece Using All Eight Writing Prompts
Over the last two weeks I’ve been publishing simple little prompts to help writers take action and write. Let’s up the ante today. For today’s assignment use all eight of my writing prompts and perform...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write About Wearing A Watch
You either wear a watch or you do not. You may or may not own one. But it is likely that at some time in your life you have owned one and worn it. That is a very common modern experience. Some people...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Write About Your Current Emotions
Emotions are messy things. We often do not feel just one thing at a time. We can be angry and sad simultaneously. We can be happy and wistful or pleased and worried. And rarely do we stop and say,...
View ArticleWriting Assignment: Carry A Sentence With You For One Day
Most writers are world-class procrastinators. We learn to put things off in ways that would make the commonly lazy blush and slow-clap in admiration. Writing is hard, so we put it off. But not all...
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