Tracey Lee Writes

I recently wrote about the benefits of daily writing exercise. I included a few links to my Pinterest board image prompts. I thought I’d make a follow up post with a few other writing exercises you can try. These prompts will help warm up those creative muscles.

Don’t forget, these are mini exercises. Try for no more than 200 words and set that egg timer to 10 minutes.

Try to relax and have some fun with this. And, as always, if you’re sharing online, tag me so I can praise and honor your glorious creativity 😉.

15 Writing Exercises:

1. Word Association: Write a short story using the first five words that come to mind.
2. Character Sketch: Create a detailed character profile for a family member.
3. Dialogue Only: Write a scene using only dialogue between two characters.
4. Sensory Description: Describe a place using all five senses.
5. First Line: Write a story starting with the line, “The cat was dead to begin with.”
6. Object Story: Pick an object nearby and write a story from its perspective.
7. Flashback: Think of a moment in your childhood, write it as a flashback scene.
8. Conflict: Write a scene where two characters have a heated argument, only to realise they are saying the same thing.
9. Stream of Consciousness: Starting with the word “Rabbit”: Write non-stop without worrying about grammar or punctuation.
10. Alternate Ending: Rewrite the ending of a favorite book or movie.
11. Emotion Focus: Write a scene that conveys a strong emotion without naming the emotion.
12. Setting Description: In vivid detail, describe a venue you like to go to. It could be a coffee shop, bar, nightclub, park, even your bedroom.
13. Murder Suspect Interview: Using the main character from a fairy tale, interview them as a suspect in a murder.
14. Character Monologue: Write a monologue for a character revealing a secret.
15. Gender Swap: Take a well-known fairy tale and rewrite a scene where the characters genders are swapped from the original version.