Friday, March 15, 2013

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Strongest Heartfelt Belief


Here at Your Writing Coach is the Friday Five Minute Exercise: I'm going to create a writing exercise for you to stretch your writing muscles. Let's see what you can do with the prompts I provide.

Gabriel Fielding said, "Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find."

That's how I want you to approach your writing abilities. Never be certain of what you will find, but always be surprised at what you can do.







Friday Five Minute Exercise - Strongest Heartfelt Belief


1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about your Strongest Heartfelt Belief. Write a convincing yet sincere persuasive piece to others on why they should share your belief.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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Do you see yourself as a persuader of your belief? 

Why or Why Not?


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Give Me 250 - Palindrome

Let's celebrate our writing. Your Writing Coach has the "Give me 250 on Wednesdays" prompt. Every Wednesday I will give you a prompt and all you have to do is give me 250 words on whatever pops into your head about the prompt. It can be a draft or a final revision. Just give me the 250 words you want to share. Post the 250 words on your blog. Celebrate your writing!

Then, when you are finished, link your permalink post here and discover what others have posted for their 250. Share this link with your Twitter friends and Facebook friends. Share away. Just celebrate and share. Use the hashtag #250Wednesday on Twitter.

Only one rule: Encourage the person who linked before you. It's important that we all have validation for our writing. Encouragement is important. Validate another's writing; be supportive, just like you'd want someone to validate yours.

Invite your friends to join in the fun. What can you write in 250 words with our prompts?

This prompt will stay up for your writing pleasure for one week, Wednesday until Tuesday. Then, the prompt changes.

Let's grow this writing prompt challenge. Grab the button and share with others.

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3/13/13 Prompt - Palindrome

Today's date is a "palindrome" a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward as forward. For example, "Madam I'm Adam" is a phrase that is a palindrome.

Palindrome List

The above link is a list to the most comprehensive collection of Palindromes on the Internet. Choose a phrase and write 250 words about that expression.

For example you could create a story about:

"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama*

"Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic."

"Do, O God, no evil deed! Live on! Do good!"

"Enid and Edna dine"

"Golf? No sir! prefer prison-flog!"

'In words, alas, drown I"

"Let Omro open one poor motel"

"Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram"

"Nemo's omen"

"On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil: a fire volcano"

"Put Eliot’s toilet up."

"Revered now, I live on. O did I do no evil, I wonder, ever?"

"So Ida, adios."

"Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut."

"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"

"Yo, banana boy!"


Have fun with these. Did you enjoy the writing prompt?





Friday, March 8, 2013

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Harvest Writing


Here at Your Writing Coach is the Friday Five Minute Exercise: I'm going to create a writing exercise for you to stretch your writing muscles. Let's see what you can do with the prompts I provide.

Gabriel Fielding said, "Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find."

That's how I want you to approach your writing abilities. Never be certain of what you will find, but always be surprised at what you can do.







Friday Five Minute Exercise - Harvest Writing


1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Harvest Writing. Harvest Writing is collecting, mulling, sifting and selecting words to create a thought.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

Was this exercise helpful?


Do you see yourself as a "harvester of words"? 

Why or Why Not?


Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Give Me 250 - Opening Line

Let's celebrate our writing. Your Writing Coach has the "Give me 250 on Wednesdays" prompt. Every Wednesday I will give you a prompt and all you have to do is give me 250 words on whatever pops into your head about the prompt. It can be a draft or a final revision. Just give me the 250 words you want to share. Post the 250 words on your blog. Celebrate your writing!

Then, when you are finished, link your permalink post here and discover what others have posted for their 250. Share this link with your Twitter friends and Facebook friends. Share away. Just celebrate and share. Use the hashtag #250Wednesday on Twitter.

Only one rule: Encourage the person who linked before you. It's important that we all have validation for our writing. Encouragement is important. Validate another's writing; be supportive, just like you'd want someone to validate yours.

Invite your friends to join in the fun. What can you write in 250 words with our prompts?

This prompt will stay up for your writing pleasure for one week, Wednesday until Tuesday. Then, the prompt changes.

Let's grow this writing prompt challenge. Grab the button and share with others.

250 Wednesdays Button


3/6/13 Prompt - Opening Line

Pick up a novel you enjoy. Read the first line. Now, copy that first line and write your own short story using that line as the opening. Remember, keep it to 250 words, if you can.



Friday, March 1, 2013

Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Identity


Here at Your Writing Coach is the Friday Five Minute Exercise: I'm going to create a writing exercise for you to stretch your writing muscles. Let's see what you can do with the prompts I provide.

Gabriel Fielding said, "Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find."

That's how I want you to approach your writing abilities. Never be certain of what you will find, but always be surprised at what you can do.







Friday Five Minute Exercise - Your Identity

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about your identity. Who are you outside of your external roles? Today, write about individuality within the spirit. As you write, take a journey into your soul and leave the world behind.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

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