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If it's some kind of experience, make it sound fun. If it's an object, person, or place, make it sound loveable. Explain its contents and their significance. Your character picks up a locket or a frame. Tell the story of a man who lives in a motel. One of your characters has been mistaken for somebody else. Rewrite it and turn it into lyrics for a song. Do this until the poem is no longer recognizable. Put your favorite poem through a translator into a different language and then back again. Write a pitch that sells this antagonist's story. Make an existing protagonist into an antagonist by changing one small thing about him or her. Rewrite it while keeping the intended meaning intact. Your character's skeleton is trying to escape his or her body. Make any kind of poem out of their answer. Day 20Īsk somebody you know how his or her day was.

Day 19Ĭross an item off your bucket list by doing it in your writing. What are the consequences? Day 18įree write about your first protagonist (from Day 1) meeting the new character from Day 15. Day 17Ī magic trick involving cards has gone horribly wrong. The last thing you touched (other than the keyboard, mouse, screen, etc.) is trying to kill your protagonist. Send this new character to the supermarket. How did this change occur? Day 15Ĭharacterize the second-last app on your phone or the last website you've visited (before this one). His or her opinion about the person is changed by the end of the bus trip. Your character meets somebody new on the bus. Now give your protagonist a papercut and over-exaggerate the pain using your own descriptions. Think of the worst pain you've ever felt. Remove and replace the nouns and verbs, and write a story that begins with your new line. Take the first line of your favorite novel. Try to convince your reader that the mythological creature of your choosing exists. Take a nondescript sentence such as, 'How are you?' Write the same line from at least five different points of view.

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Spoil the ending of your favorite movie without any context. Try to make it sound as disgusting as possible. What do your character's new powers allow him or her to do? Day 6 The last liquid you drank has turned your protagonist into a superhero. Imagine that your protagonist has just turned into a statue. Write the scene of your character's arrival. Now send your character to his or her grumpy grandmother's house for a visit. Give us an idea of who your character is by describing only the first 60 seconds of the character's day.

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Feel free to give him or her any other characteristics you'd like. Give your character the hair and laugh of person 1, the face and bedroom of person 2, and the wardrobe and mannerisms of person 3. Take us through a written walk down your street and to your favorite place through the eyes of somebody else. After all, it's all about creation in any volume, right? The 30-Day Writing Challenge Day 1 The best part is that you can write as much or as little as you'd like without pressure and without having to feel bad about it. This is the 30-Day Writing Challenge, where we've provided creative writing exercises for every day of the month. That's why we've created a less intense alternative to 50,000 words in 30 days.

Writing for a few minutes every day doesn't sound so scary, does it? The trick is that it all adds up. (Like, I guess one date wouldn't hurt, and it might be fun to post that I'm 'in a relationship' on Facebook.) In reality, writing doesn't have to be so intense.

Luckily, the ability to produce a high volume of good writing doesn't just happen overnight. I'd still like to write every day it's just that producing such a high volume in such a short amount of time is what sends single girls like me running and screaming. I get all of it.Įven so, I would like to see my family for more than 30 minutes after I get home from work, and- sue me-but going to new restaurants with my friends is, like, the Olympic sport of my life. Okay, so I know the idea is that even moms and full-time employees can find time, that prioritizing writing over other things is important to nurture your artistic self, and that fitting writing into your day every day is what makes a writer, well, a writer. So forgive me for not jumping at the opportunity to write 50,000 words in a month. I'm the person who researches the restaurant ahead of time and still stares at the menu long after everyone has decided what to order. I've had three separate Facebook accounts, over 10 different email addresses (five of which are currently active), and I've dyed my hair more colors than I could count on both my fingers and my toes. I find it difficult to choose a movie because I think two hours is too long to focus on the same story. I don't know about you, but I'm afraid of commitment.