Today’s Writing 101 Challenge (actually from Friday, the kind people at WP gave us a couple of days of grace) – To write about something we treasure in a way that makes it clear to the reader why we have such strong attachments to it. Also, to aim for a longer piece than usual, to… Read More In Search of Treasure
Today’s Writing 101 Challenge – to write in free-flow, like a stream of consciousness without censor or revision, aiming for 400 words or more… It is difficult to approach this in a pure, unhindered, just out of the packet kind of way because i have known the nature of the challenge for the past few… Read More Go With the Flow
Today’s Writing 101 Challenge – to describe an eviction from the point of view of a 12 year old boy witnessing it, and try to get across a feeling for his character… Me and Martin used to climb through a hole in his fence to pinch plums from Jed Pauley’s back garden. They were purple… Read More The Eviction
Today’s Writing 101 Challenge – to write about a personal fear as a vehicle for putting your personality on the page, perhaps by using a different style of writing… My fear may appear trivial to some people. It does not amount to a fully-fledged phobia, although it does share some characteristics. In particular, a marked… Read More Fear
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – to continue the lost and found theme with an imaginary piece about being in charge of something like a lost property office… It is not easy to find the Lost Property office at the mainline London station where I work. A plethora of signs direct you to platforms, toilets, telephones,… Read More Lost and Found – Part III
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – to imagine a favourite festival, conference or event never happening again or being taken over by an evil corporate force… I have enjoyed some very memorable conferences in beautiful cities such as York, Edinburgh, Canterbury and Dresden. The connecting theme has been around psychology and the practice of Cognitive Behavioural… Read More Reduced to This…
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – take take a nearby book, open at page 29, note the most striking word on that page, and then write a letter that incorporates it in some way… Dear Corpus Humani, Well, you really think you’re something don’t you? What kind of person gives themselves a Latin name, for goodness… Read More A Letter
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – to write about finding something, in a broad interpretation of what this means, and to link with Day 4’s post about being lost… I have found that the emotional template of loss is independent of age. The feelings of fear, smallness and loneliness grew like the fruiting body of a… Read More Serially Found
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – to use a conversation or something overheard as a starting point and introduce a sense of foreshadowing (hinting of something to come)… The elderly woman sat on her chair at the end of the corridor with the other people waiting to go into the group room. She was telling a… Read More Dark Clouds
Today’s Writing 101 challenge – describe where you lived at the age of 12, paying particular attention to varying sentence lengths to provide a nice rhythm and flow… A dozen years in the egg-box of life, and here I am coming home from school, just rounding the corner to my street. It has been a… Read More When I Was Twelve
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