Category: 5-Minute Writing Exercises
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Writing Exercise #55: “And I think the crib should go there.”
“And I think the crib should go there.” “And I think the crib should go there,” Adriana said as she walked through the extra bedroom with Matt, her husband of five years. Matt looked at her and was completely dumbfounded. Granted he loved the smile she was giving him; he…
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Writing Exercise #54: Must be easy to do so much evil when you can’t see your reflection.”
Must be easy to do so much evil when you can’t see your reflection.” “Draven! I should have known you were behind this.” “Madam Chelle,” he said evilly as he walked into the dungeon she was being held in. We meet again.” he flashed her that sinister smile she knew…
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Writing Exercise #53: Write a story using future tense
Write a story using future tense. Tomorrow, you will wake up in pain as you have the last seven months. And you’ll ignore it, as always. After rushing through your morning ritual of hygiene, you’ll go and have a 20 minute breakfast at the bistro. From there you’ll meet James…
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Writing Exercise #52: You are standing in front of a flight of stairs. Where do they lead?
You are standing in front of a flight of stairs. Where do they lead? I was standing in front of a flight of stairs drenched in complete darkness. I don’t know where they lead, all I know is that I can’t go back to where I was. Life back there…
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Writing Exercise #51: Write an ending using: “I love the cold…”
Write an ending using: “I love the cold…” It was a dark night. Clouds covered up the moon, leaving everyone in the park to rely on overhead artificial lights for guidance. I walked down between crowds of seated friends and family, carrying my exorbitantly overpriced bouquet of roses and tulips,…
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Writing Exercise #50: “Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.”
“Now that it’s just us, and everything’s out in the open, there’s just one thing I want to know.” I had never in my life wished for a battle more than I did right now. But Jack and I had destroyed the enemy. We had won. I should be celebrating,…
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Writing Exercise #49: Write a story using future tense.
He will wake up alone and remember he didn’t pick up his wife last night. He will call her repeatedly. She will not answer. He will call her mother to ask her where his wife is. His mother-in-law will not know and after a grueling 15-minutes of questions from the…
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Writing Exercise #48: “After all was said and done…”
“After all was said and done, more was said than done.” That’s what the poster on the wall says. My job thinks it helps morale to have the funny versions of the motivational posters hanging around the office rather than the originals. Steven Covey, I think they’re by. What management…
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Writing Exercise #47: Perfection
Perfection. That was the only way Leona could describe Ewan. He moved like a cool lake and spoke like a sonnet. And every morning when she woke up and looked into her husband Owen’s sleeping face, she hated herself for even daring to think about another man. So what if…
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Writing Exercise #46: You have insomnia. What are you doing while the rest of the world is asleep?
10pm: The wife is nagging me because I won’t see a doctor about my insomnia. I nag her about moving from Alaska, where it doesn’t get dark for parts of the year, to moving back to Vegas, where I loved living. 12am: The wife has finally decided to take a…
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