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Exercise 41 - Press Release
This week's exercise was to write a press release on any event. I suggested to the group to add a twist on the exercise by making our press releases about an offbeat or humorous story or event. We...
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Exercise 42 - The Truth
A drunk sits next to you in a bar, thinks you are his or her close friend and starts confessing the truth. Write about what the truth is in at least 200 words. Below is my effort. The truth...
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Exercise 43 - An Article of Clothing
The writing pool has been swamped of late with projects. So much so that we've kept postponing our writing exercises only to find out in horror that the last one we did was five months ago! We've...
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Exercise 44 - Character Sketch
Imagine a life cut short into 750-1500 words. This is a writing technique called the personality sketch, which is commonly used for feature writing in paperbacks but has gained popularity in more...
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Exercise 45 - Strictly Dialogue
From Guile, this week's exercise host: This dialogue exercise evolved from a previous one by Luida. It involves writing something that is made up ENTIRELY OF DIALOGUE, but in short story form (NOT MORE...
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Exercise 46 - Wordplay, Anagram as Inspiration
This weeks writing exercise was given by Mark. Below was his emailed instruction:Use an anagram for inspiration. Visit http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ and enter your full name to generate a list of...
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Exercise 47 - Write an Obama Speech
I hosted this weeks writing exercise. The instructions I emailed are below: The Philippine election season is nearing. Trapos (traditional politicians) will once again be in the spotlight. To be...
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Exercise 48 - Extemporaneous writing
Revived at long last! Our busy office schedule had put back our writing exercises perennially down the priority list of our to-dos. Well today we finally got around to doing a quick exercise, and by...
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Exercise 49 - Join an essay writing contest
I have not posted anything here since the last entry because I had moved to a different company. My new role does not require me to manage a team or writers so I don't have any need to continue this...
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Exercise 50 - Write a nasty chain letter
The current controversial headlines are hard to ignore - corrupt bishops receiving money from the PCSO purportedly to buy SUVs they needed in serving their communities. One bishop, going so far as to...
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