Using one of the news headlines below as inspiration, write for at least 10 minutes without editing or censoring.
The idea is to write something that matches the headline – your own version of events. Create the news! It can be anything.
You can’t get this wrong, just let the words come and see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
Use the following three words in your writing.
Write for at least 10 minutes wihout censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
The theme of October’s National Journal Writing Month is “Unleashing Your Creative Mind Through Journal Writing.”
I’ve not participated before but joined #NANOWRIMO (novel writing equivalent) a couple of years ago and am nearing the end of the novel I started there. Definitely worth checking out.
http://najowrimo.org/announcing-najowrimo-starting-october-1s t-2015/
Sit quietly for 5 minutes. Notice your thoughts. 
When the time is up, write a 2-minute list, just start writing, see what comes.
Read what you have written.
Write something for 15 minutes. Without editing or censoring.
You can’t get this wrong, just let the words come and see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
Continue the sentence below:
His hands were like shovels but…
Write for 15 minutes and see where it takes you. Don’t censor or edit, just let it come.
Writing prompt – His hands were like shovels but…
Use this photo from Lost Property as writing inspiration. Start writing and write for 15 minutes, without censoring, pausing or editing. Post your writing or thoughts in the comments section.
Great article from Rachel Funk Heller on the excellent writer unboxed blog.
Rachel suggests that our writing can be improved if we are able to recreate the dreamlike state of mind more common in childhood play. She offers three strategies to facilitate this:
More details in the full article at writer unboxed. Click the link below:
Source: Creativity, Brain Waves, and Having More Fun
I can relate to this article. My most sucessful writing comes about when I am able to enter a dreamlike state of mind where my writing seems to just happen.
Its not always possible but I’ve found that each of the following strategies can be helpful to enable this:
What have you found helpful as a preparation for writing? Share your ideas in the comments section
Take a look at your environment, inside, or outside. Focus your attention on one object or one aspect. Something specific. Try looking at it from a new angle, or thinking about it from a different perspective.
Make brief notes; whatever comes into your mind. Don’t censor, just write what comes.
Sit and read your notes then write something for 15 minutes. Don’t censor or edit, just let the writing come and see where it goes.
Please feel free to share your writing or your experience of this exercise in the comments section.
Make a three-minute list; whatever comes to mind when you look at the picture.
Read your list. Now write for 15 minutes. Don’t pause, edit or censor.
Feel free to share your writing or your experience of the exercise in the comments section.
Pick two people from the photo.
Part 1
Answer these questions about each of them:
Question 1: Why are they distracted?
Question 2: When they see this photo ten years later, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Part 2
They meet for the first time on the way home from this event. Write about this, include plenty of dialogue.
Please feel free to share your writing or your experience of the exercise in the comments section.
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