![]() Write about one of the people you find.ĭay 30 -Write a short entry that ends with the line, “The silver dust of moonlight settled coldly on the night. Now start your sentence with this colour. Now write down as many words or phrases that come to mind at that moment. What did you read?ĭay 29 -You are at a cemetery reading gravestones. Here are over 105 creative writing exercises to give your brain a workout and help those creative juices flow again: Set a timer for 60 seconds. What type of a character would you be? What would a day in your life be like?ĭay 24 -Write about the longest amount of time you’ve ever gone without sleeping.ĭay 25 -Write a story about ‘What the Neighbors Saw.’ĭay 27 -Make up a near-death experience (unless you have a real one).ĭay 28 -You read about yourself in your brother/sister, girlfriend/boyfriend’s diary. How did you get this key? What does it lock or unlock?ĭay 23 -Pretend you’re a cartoon character. Write about your life if you had that job.ĭay 22 -You wake up with a key gripped tightly in your hand. Tell about one of the people who sent one.ĭay 15 - Create a character who is falsely accused of a crime.ĭay 16 -If we assume ghosts are real, what type of ghost would you like to see?ĭay 17 - Write a short scenario set in the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant.ĭay 18 -Take a reader behind the wheel with the worst driver you’ve ever known.ĭay 19 -Write a list of 25 (or just 5!) things you want to do in your life.ĭay 20 -If you could go on only one more vacation in your lifetime, where would you go and why?ĭay 21 -Find a job ad in the paper. ![]() List everything found in those two aisles that begin with that letter of the alphabet.ĭay 6 -Write about a person who would buy all of those items in Day 5.ĭay 7 -What sets you apart from the crowd?ĭay 8 -Tell your life story from someone else’s point of view.ĭay 9 -What was your favorite childhood toy?ĭay 10 -What do you want to be remembered for?ĭay 11 -What was your first childhood pet? Describe it in detail.ĭay 12 -What is your favorite day of the week?ĭay 13 -Write about a random picture you would find in an envelope of finished prints at Costco.ĭay 14 -Elvis still gets 100 Valentines each year. Now imagine two aisles of your local supermarket. Find a novel or short story, copy down the last sentence and use this line as the first line of your new story.ĭay 2 -Tell about a character who lost something important to him/her.ĭay 3 -Write about the worst time you’ve ever put your foot in your mouth.ĭay 4 -Write a story/excerpt to include the line, “Sorry, we can’t insure you for a journey like that.”ĭay 5 -Pick a letter of the alphabet. Maybe even pick a Facebook/Twitter friend and send them with an offline “hello!”.Day 1 -Select a book at random in the room. We can’t help but feeling postcrossers have their work cut out for them in this challenge… :) Nevertheless, we wanted to dare you all to do it! Write postcards, letters or aerogrammes or surprise a friend with an unexpected package. This can count as one of your mailed items. Write back to everyone who writes to you. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch. Mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Mary’s decided to turn February into a Month of Letters, in which she challenges herself and everyone who decides do join to write and send at least a piece of postal mail every day. I know a lot of postcrossers share these feelings – this is part of the reason why Postcrossing exists! It is more ephemeral because I don’t have copies of the letters that I write and I am the only one who has copies of the letters that my correspondents write. Once when I get them and again as I write back. How so? I find that I will often read the letters that I receive twice. “By the time you get this…” It is relaxing. In some ways it forces me to think about time more because postal mail is slower. Letters are different, because whatever I write needs to be something that will be relevant a week later to the person to whom I am writing. When I write back, I find that I slow down and write differently than I do with an email. The results of this personal challenge were a revelation: She spent the entire month offline, and asked her friends to communicate with her through letters. On September 2011, Mary Robinette Kowal decided it was time for a break.
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