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Brainstorming

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10 Feb 2008

17:14

4

Beginnings

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2 Mar 2008

15:25

7

Villains

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23 Mar 2008

14:23

8

Sci-Fi

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30 Mar 2008

13:57

10

Pacing

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13 Apr 2008

15:03

16

Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard

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25 May 2008

15:21 Write a story about something unusual stopping a novelist from finishing his or her book.

17

This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer

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1 June 2008

15:41 Build a story off of this first line, “Barry knew his mumbling was going to get him killed someday.”

19

Plot Twists

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15 June 2008

15:52

21

Humor

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30 June 2008

16:25 Try to write something funny in which profanity—expletives—the hardest profanity you can think of would be completely appropriate but it doesn’t happen.

22

Doing Things That Are Unpopular

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7 July 2008

16:53 Write a scene from the point of view of a front line grunt in an undead army.

23

Viewpoint

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14 July 2008

16:54 Write a scene in third-person limited in which your viewpoint character has a secret that he or she does not want any of the other characters in the scene to know.

24

Research

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20 July 2008

17:25 Write a scene in which a character is performing an activity about which you know nothing. Go to wikipedia, read up on that activity and write the scene.

26

Horror

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4 Aug 2008

16:22 Write a descent into madness, similar to “The Rats in the Walls” and “Yellow Wallpaper” in first person point. Your writing will become gibberish or some horrible thing will happen and Brandon will scream .

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World Building: Religion

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10 Aug 2008

16:23 Develop a religion where people worship something that no one would ever worship in our world. And it can’t be silly.

29

Publishing

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24 Aug 2008

16:02

30

Revision

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2 Sep 2008

16:22

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Talking Exposition

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15 Sep 2008

18:42

33

Side Characters

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22 Sep 2008

16:14 Bring a side character from the future, bring them back to the past and write a story about them.

34

The Dark Knight

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29 Sep 2008

16:20 Pull out an old piece of writing from the last year or so. Pick a dialogue scene and try to take each piece of dialogue up a half of a notch, evoking a little more character. The outcome or conclusion of the dialogue scene should remain the same.

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Tone and Style

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6 Oct 2008

16:47 Take a scene and write it as Dan would write it, then write it as Brandon would write it, and then write it as Howard would write it.

Bonus 1

Remembering Gary Gygax

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9 Mar 2008

7:30