Warmup #20
800 word challenge: Finish this short story: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (No further quoting from A Tale of Two Cities permitted.)
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Posts on being creative, inventive, or just plain irritatin’.
Warmup #19
800 word challenge: Make an argument in favor of something horrible (genocide), or against something wonderful (kittens). Obviously, you don’t need to choose genocide or kittens. I’ll leave it up to your personal preference, but remember that kittens rock.
Warmup #18
800 word challenge: Fictionalize your day to the point of it being engrossing. PS: If you’re not me, you may not need to fictionalize too much for it to be engrossing. I’m just trying to make myself feel better.
Warmup #17
800 word challenges: Write the same scene in first person.
Warmup #16
800 word challenge: Write the same scene in third person.
Warmup #15
800 word challenge: Write a scene in second person.
Warmup #14
500 word challenge: Write a single paragraph summary of your intended Nano. Then write a thirty-second sales pitch for it. (Thanks, Wayzgoose!)
Warmup #13
500 word challenge: Write a fight scene.
Warmup #12
500 word challenge: Persuade me to buy a car.
What to Write, 2008 Edition
Welcome to this year’s annual installation of “What should I write for Nano?” Last year I mostly finished To Kill a Goddess, in which a ne’er-do-well is blackmailed into killing his own mother — where the blackmailer is Ares, and the mother is Eris, and the ne’er-do-well is from Las Vegas. Genies, vampires, dragons, leprechauns