Today it’s back to work after a 2-week break–not because I needed all that extra time to enjoy the holidays, but because I’ve been run down by a monster virus. To be honest, I could have used another week to recuperate.
Today, write about a character who’s been–naturally or unnaturally–sapped of his/her energy, and how that affects the character’s daily activities.
Choose a character you’ve been working on, and write about what he or she was like ten years ago.
Write about a character who’s having The Longest Day Ever upon returning to work from a long weekend or extended vacation.
Write about a character who is going about his/her day with an annoying song (or just the chorus) stuck in his/her head.
In honor of the client who showed up at my job this morning in an honest to God zoot suit, today write about a character with questionable sartorial proclivities.
Today, write about a child performing an activity that requires some physical dexterity: making a pbj, planting a flower. Then write about that same character performing that same activity–seventy years later.
Today, take the opening scene of whatever you’re working on and rewrite it–swapping the gender of your main character. Does it change the entire story? Or very little at all?
2010 Writer's Challenge 