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Let’s Try Something New!
Are you planning to get some writing done, this summer? Inspired by my real-time, serialised novel/project The Experiment I thought it might be fun to set you all some homework!
On thing I’m learning from the project is that it can be really helpful and enlightening to find ways of pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone. This can be especially true when we’re in the middle of a project, as it’s all to easy to get bogged down in the way we think we should be working, or obsessed with how a particular thing should be done.
In The Experiment, though, I asked you, my readers, as well as my other followers on social media, to suggest where and how my novel should start. I got some great ideas, which included many things that I wouldn’t have thought of myself, or perhaps would have thought of and then discarded. Because of that, the story I’m writing is definitely veering off in all kinds of directions that are both thrilling and unexpected. It’s fun, if nothing else!
So, if you’re planning on doing any writing, why not try something similar? Even if it’s just as an exercise — a little side-dish to go with the main project you’re working on — it can still be amazingly freeing to write a little with no massive expectations. Below I’ve listed a few of the prompts you could try, including a couple from The Experiment (some I used, some I didn’t). Why not choose one and see what you come up with, then post it below for us all to read? (Don’t worry, we’re a very kind bunch here at The Writers’ Lodge, but I will delete any comment that I feel is personal or upsetting or offers criticism that isn’t constructive).
Here we go, get your pen and paper…