• Creative Writing Exercises

    The Mother of Books is Prompt (And So Can You!)

    They say that it takes 10,000 hours or 1,000,000 words (or some combination thereof) to master the craft of writing.  But who has time for that?  We got bills to pay, habits to feed, college loan statements to file away, the list goes on – which is why I’ve picked today to use a special technique I learned in kindergarten.  It’s called “Let’s Pretend!” For those of you from China unfamiliar with this game, “Let’s Pretend!” is one of the first tasks drilled into the little heads of foreigner children matriculating in pre-school and kindergarten.  They use their imaginations, pretending they are bourgeois scientists, astronauts, cowboys, capitalist roaders and sometimes,…