Category: 5-Minute Writing Exercises
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Writing Exercise #65:
Write an opening using: it came as no surprise… It came as no surprise to anyone in the room that Santa wouldn’t mature the deadline this year. He’d been cutting it closer and closer every year for the last six years. The man was old. Was born old. He couldn’t…
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Writing Exercise #64:
“Please tell me you know where we are.” “Oh, God, please tell me you know where we are,” I said. “Of course, I do,” Anderson said. “As you said, I am God. “Oh Lord,” I prayed silently. “One day, I beg you to make murder legal. ‘Cause right now, my…
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Writing Exercise #63:
She could see the door in the distance closing slowly Amen fell out of the night sky in front of Chara like a dark cloud falling to eat her alive. His sword perched on his shoulder, she didn’t have to ask what his intent was. But she didn’t want to…
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Writing Exercise #62
“Nothing like civil unrest to get the blood flowing.” Garvin stood next to Pietro, watching him. Pietro looked very pleased as he stared down at the city from his palace window. Smoke and flames spewed up in pockets around the city. Pietro had his arms crossed over his chest as…
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Writing Exercise #61
“We don’t take things like this kindly…” “We don’t take things like this kindly,” Michelle said. Her attitude half-badass half-joker. She had a look that made you wanna sit down and shoot the breeze with her, but you damn sure didn’t wanna be on her bad side. No question why…
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Writing Exercise #60
To prevent anymore in-flight hijackings, the Government has decided it best to arm all the passengers with pistols. Does this help or harm? In theory it was a brilliant idea. Arm the passengers on a plane with Derringers. No one can take it hostage. However, in practice, theories always have…
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Writing Exercise #59: You love the city at night.
You love the city at night. The lights. The people. The atmosphere. It makes you feel alive and reminds you why you stay alive. And on really tough days, nothing makes you feel stronger and more powerful than jumping from the highest point in the city and seeing the faces…
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Writing Exercise #58: Write an opening using: I’m in a half-full bottle of water.
Write an opening using: I’m in a half-full bottle of water. It’s times like these when I feel like I’m in a half-full bottle of water. My boss is blathering on about something that I’m pretty sure has nothing to do with me or my department and I’m just sitting…
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Writing Exercise #57: I just need nine more
“I just need nine more,” I said to myself as much as to the people gathered around me. Nerds unite!!! I thought amidst all the chatter. Nine more dots. You wouldn’t think that would be so many, but after 20 straight rounds of Pac-Man, nine just seemed like eternity. I…
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Writing Exercise #56: Write an opening using a quote from your favorite song or movie.
“In pitch dark/ I go walking through your landscape…” Ember looked at the radio as Thom Yorke crooned his way through the first lines of “There There.” “Huh. Interesting,” she said to herself. “What’s interesting,” Asher said as he kept his eyes on the road. “Oh, nothing. It’s just this…
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