How Do Your Writing Exercises Work? Essentially, I go to a “Single Word Prompt Generator” and have it throw a random word at me. Then I go to Unsplash.com and use that word to search their database of images, and scroll through for something that catches my attention. This may be something where I simply want to describe what’s in the image, or maybe it sparks a small story nugget in my brain. Regardless, I then take the picture and post it here, with credit, and proceed to write for 15 minutes. Whatever I produce, I share with you lovely people. Unedited. Typos are to be expected. Word Prompt: Month Alice let the pen slice across the page, in a decorative swirl, before lifting the nip from the page and pressing the cap into place with a sigh. February. The shortest month of the year, and yet somehow it always felt like one of the longest. Family, bills, bad weather, and situated in that place between seasons where it hasn’t quite changed from one to the other, leaving you in limbo on what to wear. Worse than all of that, her perpetual dislike seemed to drain her inspiration to craft, to create. To make art. Alice hated it. If she could skip February entirely, she would. In an attempt to keep herself focussed on something other than the dismal second month of the year, she had decided to create a “February Highlights”, filling each page with brightly coloured drawings of things she saw that made her smile. The cover was done, the name of her most hated month, and now Alice smiled slowly Now, it was time to make it pretty, and she quickly moved to upcap the next pen in her collection, setting nib to paper and beginning to decorate. A squirrel shouting at a dog appeared on page one. A rainbow when the storm clouds parted on day two. On day ten she saw a dog covered in wet mud share his new coat with his owner, shaking sloppy clumps of earth in every direction, and Alice laughed as she sketched the owners exasperated amusement On day twelve, she watched a woman propose to her love in the coffee shop on the way to work, and spent her lunch hour getting the exact shine of the ring to show in her sketch. Day eighteen added a family of kittens that found their way into her back garden and day twenty-two she sketched the vet who waived the fee’s for their treatment when Alice admitted she planned to keep all four and the mother. Day twenty-eight, she wrote the name of her least favourite month again, on the last page, but this time she gave it no embellishment. No decoration to detract from the word, or what was contained within it. February was still her least favourite month, but within it were the good things. The glimmers of beauty that littered every day of life, and glancing over at her the playful kittens as they batted her pens across the floor, Alice knew that while it would never be her favourite month of the year, she’d never wish to skip another February again. #Writing #Original #Writing Exercise #Ari Writes #Arista Writes
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