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Monday Momentum - Prompt 11

5/25/2015

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Here's another writing prompt for you!

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This prompt comes from Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French (pg. 257).
Set a timer for 15 minutes and write...
Make a list of activities that take place over a brief period of time, a few hours at most. Here are some ideas, but come up with your own: a dinner date, changing a flat tire, birthday party, a drive home from school, a basketball game, or cleaning your room. Try to write a short (five-page) story confined to that period of time.
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Monday Momentum - Prompt 10

5/18/2015

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You know the more you write, the better writer you'll be. We're sharing another prompt for you this Monday.

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This prompt comes from Naming the World (And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer), edited by Bret Anthony Johnston (pg. 164).
Set a timer for 15 minutes and write...
Write a couple of pages composed entirely of a character's thoughts, elucidating the mental state of a character before he or she does something pivotal, like getting married, or shooting a penalty kick, or robbing a convenience store, or stepping off a bridge, or getting shot in the head.
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Monday Momentum - Prompt 9

5/11/2015

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It's Monday again! Here's a prompt for you.

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This prompt comes from Room to Write by Bonni Goldberg (pg. 102).
Set a timer for 15 minutes and write...
Explore the forbidden today. Begin with a memory, something already risked. Recapture, in writing, the sensual experience; make up what you don't recall. Or, approach something currently forbidden: an affair, belching in public, eating a whole chocolate cake by yourself. Risk it on paper; it's authentic when you feel the physical thrill.
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Monday Momentum - Prompt 8

5/4/2015

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Here's another prompt for you!

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This prompt comes from Write Poetry Now by Robert Lee Brewer.
Set a timer for 15 minutes and write...
Write an "I'll get to it today" poem. Why wait? Achieve something today. This poem could even be about writing a poem today.
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