Achievement Unlocked
As 2018 became 2019, I decided to try working a new habit into my morning routine. After feeding my cat and making myself a cup of coffee, I would sit at my laptop and write a paragraph of fiction. Every morning. Not a paragraph of the same story, not a paragraph that would necessarily grow to be larger than a paragraph, definitely not a paragraph I would show anyone. Just write at least one paragraph, at least three sentences long, of something fictional. It could be the beginning of a story. It could be the ending on an unwritten story. It could fall somewhere in the middle. It could just be a description of a person, a thing, a place. It could be some fictional history or other worldbuilding. It could just be practicing sentence structure and otherwise be nonsense. I just wanted to get into the habit of practicing writing the way an artist sketches or a musician practices their instrument.
As of today, I’ve written a full month of paragraphs. What do I do now?
I mean, besides keep writing, obviously.
Nick Bantock posted an exercise from one of his books where you transpose verbs and nouns in unrelated texts just to see what you can come up with. Maybe some of your paragraphs could be combined or spliced together for a fun new way to look at them.
Oh, I like that! Thanks, Jeanne!