And Now We Write

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is based on an adapted prompt from Brian Kitely's The 3am Epiphany. We're super horrified about something normal and we're not gonna tiptoe around it anymore! As usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's definitely not hanging out at Disney any time soon.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for you to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is to practice with a very stylized borrowed form: the late-night infomercial. We're bombastically pitching something ordinary, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's convinced herself that four easy payments of $39.99 are a great deal -- un-pass-uppable, really.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is inspired by I Am A Cat by Natsume Sosheki. We're telling a story with an unconventional narrator, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She got Murdered By (Cat) Words on this one.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is working on first lines. We're writing different first lines for the same story, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. The new version of her fairy tale might turn out more like Fatal Attraction.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is based on an adapted prompt from Brian Kitely's The 3am Epiphany. We're writing in first-person plural ("we" are writing in first-person plural, how on the nose). As usual your anonymish host is writing along. "We" went off spec with this one but it worked out pretty well!

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for you to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is working with a borrowed form. We're telling a story through horoscopes, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She might actually go back and finish this one.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is inspired by The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon. We're brainstorming moving things, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She got two good images for a WIP out of this one, and possibly the seed of a new story.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise centers on first lines and beginnings. We're rewriting a familiar story starting somewhere new, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She wishes she'd picked a crime story but ... she didn't.

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is based on an adapted prompt from Brian Kitely's The 3am Epiphany. We're writing a bedtime story for an uncooperative child, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. In her head the kid sounds like Bluey?

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for you to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

This is a NO-HOMEWORK daily podcast. Every episode includes a writing exercise designed to spark creativity or hone an element of your writing craft ... and we're going to build in ten minutes of writing time and do that exercise NOW. Together.

Not "Someday."

Not "Maybe later."

Not "I'll have to remember to come back to that when work calms down a bit."

Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write. You can use the daily writing prompt as your jumping off point, but you can also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write about a page of your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write, and you don't cheat, and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.