Writers, poets, teachers and students
will benefit from this fun writing exercise
Here's what you do...

Every day, for 30 days, write a mini-story
(500 words or less) about the topic given
for that day. Give it a try! It might give you some
great ideas, or help you get in that all-important habit
of writing every day.





Day One:

Write about a wedding in the year 2048


Day Two:

Write about children sledding during a blizzard

Day Three

Write about a police officer's first day of retirement

Day Four:

Write about a nun reconsidering her vows


Day Five:

Write about a compulsive liar responding to personal ads


Day Six

Write about a famous actress who
wins the lottery


Day Seven:

Write about a black man applying for a job in 1960


Day Eight:

Write about a deaf man and a seeing eye dog


Day Nine:

Write about a shooting at a homecoming parade


Day Ten:

Write about the thoughts going through
a man's mind as he plunges to his death


Day Eleven:

Write about a startling confession from a Home Ec teacher


Day Twelve:

Write about a Christian woman offended by a
television commercial

Day Thirteen:

Write about the launching of a new magazine

Day Fourteen:

Write about a love triangle involving twins

Day Fifteen:

Write about the thoughts of a sock

Day Sixteen:

Write about an heiress who falls in love with
someone she had considered beneath her.

Day Seventeen:

Write about an office party that
gets out of hand


Day Eighteen:

Write about a boy trapped inside a video game


Day Nineteen:

Write about a couple's experience appearing
on a TV talk show


Day Twenty:

Write about a kitten trapped in a laundry chute


Day Twenty-one:

Write about a librarian who buys a motorcycle

Day Twenty-two:

Write about school bus driver
who is addicted to prescription pain killers

Day Twenty-three:

Write about an astronaut with six months to live

Day twenty-four:

Write about a rich man pretending to be poor

Day twenty-five:

Write about a chase through an amusement park

Day twenty-six:

Write about a woman who is
wrongly accused of domestic violence


Day Twenty-seven:

Write about a reporter who is trying to quit smoking


Twenty-eight:

Write about an A student cutting
class for the first time


Day Twenty-nine:

Write about a divorced woman who has recently lost 140 pounds


Day Thirty:

Write about a clown arrested for public drunkenness

(C)1998, Arden Davidson

Month Two

Month Three