Writing when you don't feel like writing. That's what daily writing is about. Let's commit to 7 days of writing and finish!
LET'S WRITE: Day 7 - The Classroom Dugout
By Matthew L. Hart
Writer & Humorist
Author of:
Uncle Matty's Halloween: Jokes, Bits & Anecdotes
I'll primarily be using The Writer's Toolbox by Jamie Cat Callan to prompt my 7 day writing challenge but feel free to do yours however you'd like.
7 Day Writing Challenge:
Day 7 - Journal Entry
Well, we finally made it to the end of the week. Woohoo! I hope you were able to keep up your daily writing routine and not break the chain. Now that we've got one week in, you might want to keep going and capitalize on your momentum, or not. It's really all up to you. I feel like I've been writing more and more each day. I've really enjoyed writing the journal entries and I've been coming up with so many really interesting story concepts, characters, and at least some scenes from the writer's prompts I've been using out of The Writer's Toolbox. I think that I'll use them again today, just to button up this 7 Day Writing Challenge. I've also noticed, after going over my work for the week, I've made some really ugly characters! I'm laughing because, that's kind of what I feel like we should have at the start of a story. Ugly characters, especially those that are ugly on the inside, have so much potential for growth, that their stories are really compelling. There's a couple of scenes that I wrote this last week that I've been itching to do something bigger with. I'm not really sure though. But, hey. Isn't that the point? We started out with nothing and we made something. Any scene that we wrote this week could be developed into it's own novel, character or even story series. We could write them as completed short stories, full novels, screenplays, plays, or teleplays. The potential is there. I feel like, what we've been able to do was create a handful of seeds. Strange characters. Strange scenes. Strange conflicts. Each one almost screaming to be developed further. I might even use one of these scenes to prompt some more writing, and just expound on what's happening in the story. I hope you've experienced similar productivity yourself. I hope you share your work with me in the comments below. Happy writing!
Sixth-Sense Card:
"a chewed-on pencil"
The taste was divine. It just always was, since I was a kid. I grew up on standardized tests, and the #2 pencil naturally became one of the main food groups. I always had a box of them in my desk. I'd sniff them like the finest cigar. The rubber erasers have a kind of, oh, sweet odor. If I was needing a good distraction, I'd bite into the metal collar holding the eraser. What a shock! I liked the way the aluminum felt soft beneath the pressure of my canine. It just sort of, crimped between my teeth. It also felt like it gave me a little spark. A little shock. I don't know. It was really exciting. Like a shot of espresso for a teenager. But, every chewer knows that the wood was the real meat of the matter. It was soft and you got that fibrous crunch. So satisfying. I would sometimes catch myself gnawing away at it. Like I was a mischievous squirrel on a dried corn cob. Crunch, crunch, crunch. If I chewed too much, say, around the three hundredth question or so, the outer paint of the pencil would flake off and I'd have to spit them out like sunflower seeds. I have to laugh because, about two hours into testing, the classroom sounded more like a baseball dugout.
I'll primarily be using The Writer's Toolbox by Jamie Cat Callan to prompt my 7 day writing challenge but feel free to do yours however you'd like.
Writing everyday is a great step towards becoming a Master Storyteller.
Do you want to share your own writing during this 7 day writing challenge?
ADD YOUR BLOG ADDRESS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW
Continue your journey:
and this blog uses Amazon Affiliate links.
No comments:
Post a Comment