Results from yesterday's daily #WritingExercise
The prompt: Two people splitting the bill after a date that went badly (in fewer than 150 words).
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@thepollionian.bsky.socialResults from yesterday's daily #WritingExercise
The prompt: Two people splitting the bill after a date that went badly (in fewer than 150 words).
@inventingreality.bsky.socialWriting Prompt: Make up a Situation
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@thepollionian.bsky.socialResults from yesterday's daily #WritingExercise
Prompt: A barn, seen by a man whose son has just been killed in a war. Don't mention the son, the war, or death (John Gardner's exercise from The Art of Fiction)
@thepollionian.bsky.socialToday's #WritingExercise after John Gardner: describe a barn as seen by a man whose son has just been killed in a war.
Don't mention the son, the war, or death in a story between 50 and 150 words.
@thepollionian.bsky.socialToday's #WritingExercise - Opening Sentence
Classical example to beat:
“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman from "The Yellow Wallpaper"(1892)
@thepollionian.bsky.social#FlashFiction story from yesterday's #WritingExercise in exactly 80 words about a lost key.
@thepollionian.bsky.socialSubmissions from yesterday's writing challenge: describe someone waking from a nightmare with two different sentence formats.
@thepollionian.bsky.socialToday’s #WritingExercise: a lost key.
The constraint: exactly 80 words. Not 79, not 81. And no dialogue.
@thepollionian.bsky.socialToday's daily #WritingExercise - a pair of work boots.
Describe them so we know exactly who wears them in less than 150 words at thepollionian.org/practice
@thepollionian.bsky.socialResults from yesterday's #DailyWritingExercise for #FlashFiction shorter than 150 words.
Drill today on dialogue at thepollionian.org/practice
@rachaelrainerivers.bsky.socialBack when Ursula K. Le Guin made me write about a character's past in present tense while writing about their present in past tense.
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