If you’ve been with us before, you know we just can’t leave you hanging on Jan. 31. We like to send you off with one more challenge for your writing year.
Our final card for this go-round is titled Where to Start and tells you, “In six words, write the synopsis for your magnum opus.”
The dice suggest you take a snapshot of your progress so far, while realizing you can’t help wearing a smile on your face as you reflect on your accomplishments from the past month. We see the gears turning in your brain as you plan to spend another year working on your writing.
As we said before, there are writers who plot and plan, and there are writers who write and wander. Planning writers map each step of their work, knowing where they have to go and how they’ll get there. Discovery writers start with a place or a person or a predicament and just let the words flow where they will.
We challenge you today to set up (or better state) your writing project. In six words, you can set up a story, a chapter, a play. You can set up character, conflict, a circumstance.
It’s well worth taking 15 minutes — more or less — to make a commitment to your writing goals.
Hmm, six words…
Today I continue my writing string.
Pen meets paper, imagination goes free.
Writer succeeds, finishes project, get published.
Again, we hope to see you next year. (And if you get stuck in the meantime, come back to our site and glance through the hundreds of prompts we’ve posted over the years.)
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