DangFool Writer

posted by Ceci Miller on Jun 9

If you’re enough of a dang fool to want to be a writer, you know you’ve got to do crazy writing exercises. One a day, if possible. Like a vitamin, only a lot more delicious. Like a Red Vine, only good for you. Just as chewy as a Red Vine, but not in quite the same way. Which brings us to today’s writing exercise:Writing Exercise for Milk Lovers* Imagine you’re lying down. A massive cow is standing over you. Full udders. Watch your face. No, you have not been kidnapped into someone’s free-roaming hallucination. Yes, this is most definitely a writing exercise. Now try filling out the rest of this sentence: “If only I had . . . .” Then write another one to hang onto the tail of that one. Keep going until you stop. If you stop after, say, just two sentences, don’t. Because a crazy dang fool writer would keep this writing exercise moving until milk flooded the farm and every tobacca-chewer in town was involved. Or something else even more outrageous happened. Or you could just hang out under that cow and keep up the in-depth reporting. Dish the details. Don’t leave out anything. Go for the gross factor. . . Actually, I misspoke. You don’t have to like milk to love this writing exercise. You just have to be willing to be a dang fool. Because if you’re not open to being a fool then, dangit, a whole herd of cows could be standing over you and you wouldn’t be able to write a single word.Stay tuned for more writing exercises not involving dairy animals or milk products. Mad geeky writing exercises will be breakin’ out all over this blog, so you might as well subscribe. Go on. Click it: ____((RSS feed))___