The Seven Day Writing Challenge - Day 6

This seven-day writing challenge is designed to simply get you writing. There is no word limit on each exercise but you’ll probably aim to write 300 – 500 words for each. Make the exercises work for you as you wish. You can work chronologically through each day, or you can spend more time on one day if it needs more attention and then catch up with the other exercises at a later date. Most importantly, just keep writing! Save revisions for after the end of the challenge. I’d love to know how you get on so leave a comment!

Respond to a Classic

I like to think of writing as a never ending conversation in which we correspond with the great writers that have come before us. The classic novels, plays and poems that continue to inspire across generations have a golden thread spun through them. Any writer, at whatever stage of their creative odyssey, has much to gain from immersing themselves in this mastery. For this exercise choose a classic work – the older the better – and find a passage, stanza or speech. Things that work well for this might be a Shakespeare play or one of the Greek epics. Think of it as a call and response. Read the passage through and then write a reply, engaging with the themes that are being explored. Your response can be as messy as you like just allow yourself to react to what you read.

Come back tomorrow for another exercise. Happy Writing!

Previous exercises:    Day One – You are Here

                                   Day Two – Fashioning your Character

                                   Day Three –Transformations

                                   Day Four – Giving Directions 

                                   Day Five – Adopt a Character