exercise: Pick two truths and one lie - it doesn't need to be about you, it can be general knowledge or facts - and make it a story. If you want to make it into a game ask people to guess what the lie is!
example:
I sit on the bus, dazed, when my phone vibrates in my pocket. I blink twice, then pick it up. "Hello?"
"Where are you?" my brother asks.
I look outside. "Shoot. I'm not sure. I forgot to get off."
The landscape turns from a road by a plaza to a set of trees. I yank on the yellow bus cord and the automated voice says, "Stop requested."
I hop off once the bus pulls to a stop. I glance on both sides of the street and I don't see an intersection nearby, but there is a bus stop across the street. I wait for a few cars to pass before I tighten the straps on my backpack and dart across the tarmac. A bus careens down the road. The bus stop is a minute's walk away. I race for the stop, but the bus driver cruises pass me. I slow and hunch over, pinching my cramped sides. God, I need to exercise.
A blue caravan pulls up behind me and a man rolls down the window. His wife sits behind the wheel. "Do you need a ride?"
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QUESTION: What is true? What is a lie?
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Writing Exercises and Prompts
RandomStuck in a rut? Don't know how to write your next chapter? Feel like writing, but you don't know what? Sitting and waiting for an idea to materialize will solve nothing. Reading this book, however, might.
