Here is tomorrow's exercise:

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Here is tomorrow's exercise:

Begin with: "Once upon a time,"

Here is tomorrow's exercise:

Think of the most boring person you know. Now imagine them committing a crime.

Here is tomorrow's exercise:

Rewrite a famous scene from a book or film.

Here's tomorrow's exercise:

Cosmic Thoughts. Go here. Click the 'Cosmic Thoughts' button. You'll get a strange little aphorism. Have a character read this aphorism (where?) and react to it.

Here's tomorrow's exercise:

Write a page (or more) of dialog without allowing any character to say more than 5 words per line.

Another one of those "a cinch for some, a challenge for others," as it should be...

Sorry that I've missed posting the exercises for the last couple of days, my end-of-term was Friday, and I was unconscious for much of Saturday. But we should be back to a regular schedule now:

Make lunch. Describe a character making his/her favorite meal.

the_adzo, we want a Garkon post from you for this one!

An easy one for some, a new challenge for others:

Write a poem.

That is all.

Here is tomorrow's exercise:

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations. Go here. At the bottom of the two introductory paragraphs, before the table will be a randomly chosen situation in bold (Starting like this Your situation:). Look up the situation in the table that follows and write something around it.

As anticipated by Hendrick, here's tomorrow's exercise:

Freewrite. Set an alarm for 10 minutes from now, start the timer, then begin writing as quickly as you can without stopping for anything until the alarm goes off.