You as character 5

Today you are the villain, the antihero, the brute, the creep, the rascal. Who are you?





For this exercise, turn off the screen on your computer and write into the dark. Go Wild!
Be Bad! Write for ten minutes without stopping.


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You as character 4

If you were a fantasy or fairytale character, who would you be and why?






Write for five minutes without stopping.

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You as character 3

Like most of us writers, are you a thief too, using other people's lives, personalities, bad habits to suit your characters? Which is the best theft you ever got away with? 

Write for five minutes, come on, tell all.



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You as character 2

What is the one thing, desire, goal, habit, that nobody would recognize as yours were you to use it in a fictitional character? 


Write for five minutes.



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You as character 1

Have you taken characteristics from yourself and given it to one or more of your fiction characters? What and why?


Write, filling a page, without stopping.


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Fall 5

The Canadian Thanksgiving weekend is coming up. With that in mind, what are you most thankful for?


Write for ten minutes without stopping.

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Fall 4

If your life cycle were based on seasons, how would you prepare for the autumn of your life?  
Are you concerned about aging, physical and financial health?


Write for ten minutes without stopping.



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Fall 3

Which is your favourite tree? Conifer? Hardwood? Deciduous?
If your favorite tree could talk, what would it say?


Write for five minutes without stopping.


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Fall 2

What time did the sun rise this morning? What is it about fall you like in particular? The fog? The cooler temperature? The promise of snow?



Write for five minutes without stopping.


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Fall 1

During your next walk, pick a leaf that has fallen from a tree, take it home and write about it. Where did it come from? How far did the wind carry it?



Write without stopping until a page is filled.

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