A Month of Writing

Thirty days, one prompt each. Sundays are off — the month is built to be missed twice and survive it.

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Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1 300 words on why you stopped last time.

2 Describe a room you have not seen in ten years.

3 A conversation, dialogue only. No he said.

4 Rewrite day 1 in half the words.

5 Something you know how to do. Teach it.

6 Read aloud what you wrote this week.

7 Rest.

8 Open in the middle of the action.

9 A page with no adjectives.

10 Write a letter you will not send.

11 Describe a stranger from the neck down.

12 The same scene from the other person.

13 Give a page to someone. Ask nothing.

14 Rest.

15 Halfway. Reread everything, delete nothing.

16 Write the ending first.

17 One long sentence. Make it hold.

18 Something true you have not admitted.

19 Copy a paragraph you love by hand.

20 Write badly on purpose for 20 minutes.

21 Rest.

22 A place, no people in it.

23 Cut your favorite line. Keep going.

24 Two pages without stopping to read back.

25 Write standing up somewhere else.

26 The first thing you remember.

27 Pick the best page of the month.

28 Rest.

29 Rewrite that page right.

30 Send it to one person. Then decide about month two.

Boxes are for days you wrote, not days you wrote well. Sundays have no box on purpose.

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A month of writing, laid out day by day