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#100 days writing challenge torrent#

Explore an antique shop, or an art museum, a botanical garden, a park.

Treat yourself to an artist’s day out.

How do they represent you? How do they tell your story? Pick three objects you see (or hear or smell or feel) and reveal them to your reader. Looking for something more specific? Try one of these ideas: A piece on pie led me into my son’s Buddha soul. I wrote about rolling pins once, and a cookbook another time, and both led me into old kitchens, and musings of grandmothers, and recollections of favorite family meals. You may simply want to describe the object: what does it look like, how does it feel, does it have a scent, a flavor, does it make a sound? Or you may want to use an object as a focal point to expand into something bigger. Take something small, and concrete - a thing, a noun - and use that as a starting point. The writing challenge this week is to begin with an object. Rolling pins by Jeff Kubina (CC BY-SA 2.0) From William Carlos Williams’s compact poem The Red Wheelbarrow, to the vignettes of the film Coffee and Cigarettes, to the sweeping saga of Donna Tartt’s new novel The Goldfinch, objects anchor great writing: a red wheelbarrow paints imagery, coffee and cigarettes set a mood, a painting of a chained songbird represents greater themes of captivity and beauty. Simple objects ground many familiar works.

#100 days writing challenge torrent#

In the case of the idea flood, an object becomes your stick to grab onto, the anchor that holds you safe in the torrent and allows you to explore without getting swept away. In the case of the idea drought, an object provides something basic to observe and describe, a starting point that might ultimately lead you into a deeper story. I don’t know about you, but when it comes to writing I often find myself in one of two places: 1) I can’t think of anything to write about, or 2) I am flooded with ideas, so many ideas that I am swept away in a riptide of ideas, and I can’t find a stick to grab onto I can’t get my bearings to begin, so I don’t begin at all.Ī piece of writing advice that solves both of these problems is to focus on an object. Andrea grew up on the coast of Georgia and now lives with her husband and two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. She writes creative nonfiction on her Butterfly Mind blog and, though she wonders if she’s crazy for doing it, she recently launched a second site, Andrea Reads America, where she chronicles her attempt to read three books set in each US state. in Ecology, but left that field to raise children and write. Today, we are delighted to publish a writing challenge written by a member of the community. Andrea Badgley of Butterfly Mind and Andrea Reads America.