Sentence starters 5

Today's Writing Exercise

Choose one:

It's Sunday morning; the phone rings....

If I could do it over again....

One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story....


Write for fifteen minutes or until you find the story.



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Sentence starters 4

Today's Writing Exercise

Choose one:

Something is burning...

In a state of disarray....

I really shouldn't tell this to anybody, but....






Write for ten minutes.


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Sentence starters 3

Choose one:

She sat in the backseat of a taxi....

This is a map to where I live....

This is what was left when he was gone....


Write for ten minutes.


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Sentence starters 2

Choose one:

It's nothing serious but...

It was Sunday, the time it happened....

It was his idea of a good time....


Write, filling a page.


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Sentence starters 1

Choose one:

Let's sit for a while and simply talk....

Don't ask me why....

This is not about.....



Write for five minutes nonstop.


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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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Don't sweat the small stuff 5

How do you deal with the nagging worries that eat up your energy? Do you talk to yourself? Pray? Take sleeping pills?
Do you like the way you deal with the big stuff? If not, can you change it?




Write for ten minutes.


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Don't sweat the small stuff 4

Today, what is your absolute biggest worry? Why?

Write for ten minutes


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Don't sweat the small stuff 3

Did you ever worry about something so much it gave you sleepless nights, and then it turned out alright and all the worrying was for nothing?  What was it and can you laugh about it now?



Write for ten minutes.


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Don't sweat the small stuff 2

What do you consider "big stuff"? Where does the "little stuff" end and the "big stuff" begin for you begin? Are you good at separating the two? How so?

Write for five minutes.




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Don't sweat the small stuff 1

Are you a worrywart? What is "small stuff" to you?

Write for five minutes.









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Multiple Choice 5

PERSONALITIES
- Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living.
- Quietly forceful, original, and sensitive
- Independent, analytical, and determined.
- Practical, traditional and organized.
- Creative, resourceful, and intellectually quick.
- Assertive and outspoken, driven to lead.
- Enthusiastic with outstanding people skills


Which one describes you best? Choose one and write for ten minutes.  

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Multiple Choice 4

Weird things in coffee
- condensed milk at bottom of cup
- butter (unsalted)
- beer
- chicken broth
- cranberry juice

Which one would you try? What do you add to your java or tea?

Write for five minutes, or fill a page whichever comes first.

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Multiple Choice 3

Do you know any of these unusual sports?
- Man v.c. Horse
- Wife Carrying
- Bog Snorkelling
- Toe Wrestling
- Fistball 
- Octopush
- Chess Boxing 
- Cheese Rolling

Choose one and write about it filling a page. If you don't know any of these sports then you can write about how you imagine on of them is played.


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Multiple Choice 2

Do you know any of these unusual sports?
- Man v.c. Horse
- Wife Carrying
- Bog Snorkelling
- Toe Wrestling
- Fistball 
- Octopush
- Chess Boxing 
- Cheese Rolling

Choose one and write about it filling a page. If you don't know any of these sports then you can write about how you imagine on of them is played.


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Multiple Choice 1

COLORS:
- Azure
- Asparagus
- Amber
- Auburn
- Apricot
- Arsenic
- Almond
- Amethyst

Choose a color and write for five minutes.



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