Category: 5-Minute Writing Exercises
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Writing Exercise #35: Write about a food
There’s nothing like slow-cooked chili. That’s my new favorite thing to cook and eat. I like to make it with at least two different types of beans, tomato sauce or just the bean juice depending on how they’re cooked. Sometimes I cook the beans until they’re nice a creamy and…
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Writing Exercise #34: Write an ending using, “I love the cold…”
“Reich,” Bishop said. They both put their heads up and stared at with attention. Judian more than Judith. “We have a plane crashed in Alaska. We need you to go retrieve its contents. A black box.” “What’s in it?” Judith asked. He stared at her, but ignored her question. “We’re…
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Writing Exercise #33: Write an opening using, “They’d sat staring at each other’s eyes for hours. He was going to learn telepathy if it killed him. And she was just the one to teach him. Him, she could teach a lot of things.”
They’d sat staring at each other’s eyes for hours. He was going to learn telepathy if it killed him. And she was just the one to teach him. Him, she could teach a lot of things. Telepathy. Chemistry. Biology. Anything she wanted. And he’d willing let her. Right now, he…
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Writing Exercise #32: “Why does everyone think I’m gay?”
“Why does everyone think I’m gay,” Phil asked. Four people in the room, and no one wanted to answer that question. This is what best friends were for, to handle straight forward issues like this. But his best friend was my husband…who also thought he was gay. Which is why…
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Writing Exercise #31: Use an appliance in the first paragraph.
Use an appliance in the first paragraph. “If you can’t handle the kitchen, stay out…of…the…oven…or something like that.” Judian stared at Judith with a frown and irritation practically blowing out her ears. “No. it’s nothing like that. How do you…I have never known anyone who habitually gets idioms wrong. How…
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Writing Exercise #30: You’ve witnessed someone get hit by a bus. What are you thinking/feeling?
Oh my God! Oh my God! Did you see that? He ran right into the…Oh my God. I can’t even look at this. He ran right into the bus. Where did he even come from? He just ran across the street from out of nowhere. Oh my God? Did the…
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Writing Exercise #29: Every single light represents a person
Sometimes at night, Mom and I would lie out in the lawn and look up at the stars. I’d try to guess the constellations. To this day, I can still find most of them. “Every single light represents a person,” she told me. “When that light goes out, it’s gone…
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Writing Exercise #28: Write a poem
Morning came in title onlyThe sky remained black as nightNo one breathes like thisNo one lives like this///From the shadows poured tearsOf black wax. Hot and sticky.Like monsters from the air,A commune of bodies waitingFor more///But what did we have to give?We were waiting too?Our bodies aren’t needed hereNot for…
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Writing Exercise #27: Write about your favorite quotation.
My favorite quote of all time has to be from Madonna. “People don’t say what they want so they don’t get what they want.” Ever since I read that a few years ago, I’ve been far more honest not just with people, but with myself as well. It’s like my…
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Writing Exercise #26: You’re on a deserted island. The one thing you’d give anything to have with you has been destroyed. What do you have now?
Well, since the Starship Enterprise has been destroyed, which was the only thing I wanted, I guess all I have now is a phaser. I’m going to set that puppy to kill and go hunting. …For fish because I don’t kill and clean mammals. I think fish would be more…
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