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Are You Stuck? Take On a Writing Challenge for a Month
Day #1 to get started
When the world is going berserk around you, one of the biggest things you can do for yourself as a writer is simply to write.
The hardest part is writing for yourself.
We are so used to writing for publication, whether it’s on Medium, or your new novel, or a short story or poem you want to send off. Pressure. Big time pressure. Where is the joy now in simply writing?
How can I write when everything is so …. crap?
The challenge here, then, is to simply write for yourself. To have someone (me) give you an idea every day or two. You do what you like with it. You don’t like the fiction prompt? Do the nonfiction or poetry one for a change.
In fact, make that your aim. Change it up. Have fun.
My big tip? Do this in a place where you will save it. A notebook, an online journal. Don’t do it in a way that makes it easy to delete or rip it up. Let it sit. Come back to it some other time and mine for gold.
Right now …. write.
Fiction: Set your clock for 10 minutes and come up with 12 titles for stories. Choose the one you like the best and write the first two paragraphs of the story, starting in the middle of some action. No…
