Category: 5-Minute Writing Exercises
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Writing Exercise #45: Write an opening using, “Don’t tell me you’re still bitter about what I did to you six years ago.”
Stephen looked at her with his famous I-don’t-care glare. “Oh, please, Angie,” he said, waving his sword in an exaggerated gesture. “Don’t tell me you’re still bitter about what I did to you six years ago.” At this, Angie’s skin felt flushed. She could feel heart from her anger inflaming…
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Writing Exercise #44: Write an opening using, “You’re crazy. You’re all crazy and none of this is real.”
“You’re crazy. You’re all crazy and none of this is real,” Katherine yelled. We understood her frustration…we at least I did. I remember the first time I was told about my alters. It didn’t make me feel good or excited. I realized there would be about 6,000 versions of me…
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Writing Exercise #43: Write an opening using a sofa
He threw a sofa at me. God, I do not get paid enough for this, I thought. I shot back at him with my laser gun. He grumbled and stumbled, but didn’t fall. I keep telling my commanders laser guns are useless on rabid cave trolls. Their skin is just…
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Writing Exercise #42: Write an opening using, “I’ve got it. I’m on a roll now. On a roll.”
“I’ve got it. I’m on a roll now. On a roll,” I said to Martine as she watched me pull switch after swift and push button after button. I always told my sister that being an aviator with a minor in math was going to come in handy one day.…
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Writing Exercise #41: “So, what do you write about?”
“So, what do you write about?” she asked him as she rummaged through his library. He looked at her; she didn’t notice. “What makes you think I write about anything?” “Oh, you know, the pen collection, the library, your silence; I don’t know. You just kind of seem like the…
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Writing Exercise #40: Write an opening using, “I’m in a half-full bottle of water.”
“I’m in a half-full bottle of water right now. That’s how I feel, like I’m just waiting to get swallowed up by that idiot sitting in her office painting her fingernails or whatever it is dummies like her do. I can’t believe she got this job. Our government must have…
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Writing Exercise #39: Write an opening using, “She would be hot if she didn’t remind me of my mother.”
“She would be hot if she didn’t remind me of my mother. You ever feel that way Ms. Kinnington? I first realized I was in love with Mrs. Evans during lunch…” I tried to bury my hatred of life as Andrew came to me with yet another lover’s pursuit that…
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Writing Exercise #38: Write an Opening using an Instrument in the first sentence
The opening drum roll in pg. Lost’s “Jonathan” was the perfect beginning to this project. A good backdrop to the man’s screaming. And if anything was going to be the last thing he heard, he was lucky it was this. One of my favorite songs. Surely, by now my bosses…
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Writing Exercise #37: “Oh, my poor stomach.”
“Oh, my God,” Reba said. “My poor stomach. I should not have eaten all that mustard.” She sat on the bench, suffering. And well she should. What kind of moron eats a whole bottle of Dijon, even for a bet? “I hope that $200 is going to be worth the…
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Writing Exercise #36: “…And with a temper quick as a razor blade.”
“Brilliant, beautiful, and with a temper quick as a razor blade,” Adam said. “Really?” Judian asked. “I don’t know that I’ve heard her described that way. I have heard other things. Most of it not very flattering. But she does have a nasty temper. She’s gone through five phones in…
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