April’s Daily Kickstarters
Spend fi ve minutes starting
Douglas’s
page 11, jotting down ideas for
articles from a newspaper.A LIMERICKergram from
ly...VOCAB BOOSTWrite a list of random words
where each begins with the last
letter of the preceding word.
Your starter word is HURL...REPEAT AFTER METhree days to go until the
Writers’ Forum #222 poetry comp
deadline. Spend fi ve minutes
doing Sue’s p50 exercise
I am... / I am not...To mark the 250th birthday
of William Wordsworth,
write a poem that starts♫
♫Will You Love Me TomorrowTER BOXGrab the new
orum and have
a go at writing something
for the letters page.WRITING SPACE
On page 66, at the end of the
piece, Julia Chapman explains
what really made a writing space
for her... List what YOU need
in order to write.RANDOM WORD
GENERATORWrite about...
ELAPSE
DOZEN
GOLDFAST FICTION
Three days to go until
the rolling deadline for the
Writers’ Forum fi ction comp.
Read the winner in this issue then
write down one big question you
would ask the god Amunoun...Come up with your
own idea for a fi ve-minute
writing exercise and send it to
[email protected]
Have a go at Barbara’s
on page 25.ND MAPWrite the word PROOF
in the middle of a page,
then all the words/ideas
it sparks around it...
until you fi ll the paper.FAMOUS FIRST WORDS
Start your own story from the
opening line of Farenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury:It was a pleasure to burn.NO NEWS IS...?
On this day in 1930, BBC Radio
announced there was no news
(none fi t for its listeners anyway)
and played piano music instead.
What would you replace
today’s news with?FLASH COMPEight days to go until
the Writers’ Forum #223
fl ash comp deadline.
Spend fi ve minutes having
a go if you haven’t already.A scanning electron microscope
was fi rst demonstrated to the
public 80 years ago today.
Write what it feels like as you
shrink to a cellular level.Choose one of Sue’s fouron page 51.Today is the 50th Earth Day,
encouraging us to care for
the planet. Write a list of things
you can do or change to play
your part.T GEORGEWhat dragons would you
like to slay today?AN ANAGRAMMake as many words
and phrases as you can
from the letters in
CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMICSQUARE UPRoll a dice for Paula’s
Fiction Square on page 32
and plot the key scenes
of a story.Pour out a current writing
into a letter and
send it to Dear Della or
the Mentor – or burn it.James Cook landed
in Botany Bay 250 years ago.
Come up with something
Australian for each letter of
the alphabet.MMING UPWrite a list of everything
you’ve ritten this month
and/or everything you plan to
write next month, honest.NOD
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