I’m currently writing one novel (3-4 chapters to go) and revising another (a lot of chapters to go). So which project is hammering at my brain? A third entirely unrelated novel, of course. Which I have been ignoring for nearly a year; it must have been getting impatient.
I keep wanting to do writing exercises (this is not a non sequitur). The problem with exercises, for me, is that although I get things out of them, they’re pointless disconnected random snippets of characters and settings I’ll never see again.
So I put those two issues together and decided to do one exercise a week, with the aim of using them to develop short stories and this future novel. And that was working for a while.
And then Donald Maass started tweeting daily prompts. It’s like he knew I was starting to seriously look at planning this novel and decided to help me out. Very kind.
For any writers reading this, check out his prompts–they will make you think. And I will get back to the weekly exercise plan after he’s done.