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2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today is the fifth day of January's FLASH WEEK. We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for oursel...

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today is the fourth day of January's FLASH WEEK. We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourse...

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today is the third day of January's FLASH WEEK. We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for oursel...

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today is the second day of January's FLASH WEEK. We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourse...

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page. Today is the start of January's FLASH WEEK. We start with a blank sheet of paper. For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week. We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words. This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves...

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 Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe. We're inhabiting an underwater classroom , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's either embarrassed or proud of making a fart joke. (Both. She's both.) This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten mi...

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 beginnings. We're mirroring a closing image , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. Her heroine is hungry like the wooooooolf ... This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the...

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 an overheard phone conversation . As usual your anonymish host is writing along. It was harder than usual for her to stick with it tbh, but that's the whole point of these ten-minute sprints: they...

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 borrowed form: the Yelp review (and response). We're reviewing the reviewer , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She wrote a response from someone who wants to make nice with their negative reviewer, for Reasons. This is a no-homework podcas...

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 " In A Grove " (which inspired Rashomon) by Ryünosuke Akutagawa. We're hearing different perspectives , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. Turns out Cinderella's Dad tells the story differently than Cinderella (or anyone else). This is a no-homewor...

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 changing our minds about where to begin , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She thinks she should actually start this exercise again! This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to...

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 telling a tall tale about ourselves ! As usual your anonymish host is writing along. She switched things up after about two minutes of writing and it got much more distinctive. This is a no-homework podca...

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 borrowed form: the text message. We're demanding an answer from someone who's unresponsive , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's been on the receiving end of threads like this before, so writing one is ... interesting. This is a no-home...

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 Shank's Mare by Jippensha Ikku. We're road tripping with grifters , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. Her heroes end up getting a different kind of buzz than they'd been looking for. This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten mi...

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 playing telephone with the first line of a story , and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She didn't think Aunt Jean's need to one-up Julia's wedding was going to be relevant but ... This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we bu...

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-h...

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, real...

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...

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 minut...

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! Th...

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 as...

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...

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...

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...

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...