Waiting 2

What kind of a "waiter" are you?
How long do you wait at the doctor's office, for your appointment, before getting annoyed?
How long do you wait for a friend or business associate before leaving?
When was it the last time you got upset waiting for someone?


Write a page, nonstop.



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Waiting 1

Always, we wait.
We wait for the bus, the lunch break, tomorrow, the love of our life...


What are you waiting for?


Write for five minutes non-stop.
Maybe you will find that you're waiting for something you weren't aware of before.


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Raise the Stakes 5

How can you make a reader care as much about your protagonist as you do? Make him/her strong, engaging and sympathetic; know your protagonist intimately. You do know him, do you?


How can you raise the stakes? Ad another goal, another hurdle, more conflict, more tension.


Write for fifteen minutes.


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Raise the Stakes 4

How can you make a reader care as much about your protagonist as you do? Make him/her strong, engaging and sympathetic; know your protagonist intimately. You do know him, do you?

What are your protagonist's goals, needs, yearnings? What is it that he/she must have, not matter what? What/who stands in the way? How much will your protagonist have to go through, to reach his goal?  


Write for ten minutes.

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Raise the Stakes 3

How can you make a reader care as much about your protagonist as you do? Make him/her strong, engaging and sympathetic; know your protagonist intimately. You do know him, do you?

Which relationship has been the most challenging for your protagonist? Parental? The first love? God?
How did he/she overcome this difficulty?


Write for ten minutes. Find some answers.

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Raise the Stakes 2

How can you make a reader care as much about your protagonist as you do? Make him/her strong, engaging and sympathetic; know your protagonist intimately. You do know him, do you?

What is your protagonist's pet peeve? What issue really fires him up? Why? What triggered this disilke?

Write, filling a page, without stopping.

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Raise the Stakes 1

How can you make a reader care as much about your protagonist as you do? Make him/her strong, engaging and sympathetic; know your protagonist intimately. You do know him, do you?

What's the biggest mistake he made and still regretts?
Who does he love more than himself?
What is his proudest moment?


Write for five minutes without stopping.



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Quotes that inspire 5

John Steinbeck:  "I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium."


What are you most afraid to write about?
Write for fifteen minutes, nonstop.


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Quotes that inspire 4

Joyce Carol Oates: "Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the pshychological sense."


Do you have any ghosts? Who or what are they?
Write for ten minutes.


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Quotes that inspire 3

Harlan Ellison: "Anyone can become a writer. The trick is to staying a writer."


Have you ever thought of chaning your profession? Why?
Write for ten minutes, let it all out why we must be crazy to be and stay a writer.


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Quotes that inspire 2

Stephen King:  "I don't feel like a novelist or  a creative writer as much as I feel like an archaeologist who is digging things up and brushing them off and looking at the carvings on them."


What are you digging up? Is there something you want to dig up?
Write, filling a page.


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Quotes that inspire 1

Karl Vonnegut: "You develop a style from writing a lot."


Write for five minutes right now, free-style. What's on your mind?




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Renovations 5

SOUL

Look into your soul. What needs "renovating"?

Write for twenty minutes, nonstop, and see what your writing reveals about yourself.



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Renovations 4

BODY


If you could "renovate" your body, what would you change? Why? Are you working on changing your body? Or are you working on accepting your body the way it is?



Write for fifteen minutes without stopping, don't think, just write. Hopefully you will end up with a gratitude story.



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Renovations 3

Choose from your home:

- picture
- carpet
- curtain
- bed spread
- towel
- tapestry
- dishes


Describe, in great detail, the chosen item, including exact description of colors and patterns. Then change one thing you would if you could....

Write for fifteen minutes without stopping and see what new and improved item you will end up with.


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Renovations 2

SELLING

Choose one:
- Cabinets
- Carpets
- Hardwood flooring
- Plumbing
- Roofing
- Lighting
- Siding
- Doors/Windows


You are a sales person and are pitching a product to your customer. Convince him/her to order the most expensive item in your store. If you know nothing about the above items, fake it!

Write for ten minutes without stopping, or at least fill one page.


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Renovations 1

This week's theme is renos. Most of us have done them.


Write about your last renovation in your home. Was it the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room? Did it take twice as long to complete and did it cost you double from what you budgeted?


Write without stopping, fill one page.  Feel free to use this exercise as a rant.


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Leonardo 5

From the notebook of Leonardo:
When Fortune comes, seize her firmly at the forelock, for I tell you, she is bald at the back.


When was the last time Fortune bit you in the back?  Write for fifteen minutes.


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Leonardo 4

From the notebook of Leonardo:
You can have neither a greater nor a lesser dominion than that over yourself.


What is this dominion over yourself? Write for ten minutes.


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Leonardo 3

From the notebook of Leonardo:
If you say that poetry is more everlasting than painting, to this I would reply that the works of a smith are more enduring still, since time preserves them longer than either your words or paintings.

What would you answer Leonardo to his statement?
Write for ten minutes.

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Leonardo 2

From the notebook of Leonardo:
Moderation curbs all the vices. The ermine would rather die than soil itself.





Write, whatever comes to mind. Write, filling a page.


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Leonardo 1

From the notebook of Leonardo:
I wandered some distance among gloomy, overhanging rocks, coming to the entrance of a large cave. I stood in front of it for some time, kneeling and shading my eyes, stupefied and amazed, for I did not have prior knowlede of its existence. Suddenly, two things arose in me - fear and desire. Fear of the menacing darkness of the cave, and desire to see if there was any marvelous thing inside it.


What do you think about this observation? Write for five minutes, without stopping.




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