30-Day Writing Challenge: Day 3

30-Day Writing Challenge: Day 3

Here’s the prompt for today. 

  Write a 1 – 2 page list of things you believe in and things about which you would love to write. Include what kind of messages (if any) you want to convey in your writing, what the purpose of your writing is, what you hope to accomplish with your work. You may want to include a list of influences or other writers you aspire to write like.

Excerpt from: "The 30-Day Writing Challenge: Begin or Enhance Your Daily Writing Habit" by Sara E. Crawford.

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I BELIEVE

In choice over destiny

In personal initiative 

In making anything possible

In the transformative power of creativity

In being the hero in your own story and writing your own adventure(s)

In the intoxicating power of creativity and personal engagement and fulfillment 

In infinite possibilities 

In teaching/sharing what you know 

In taking risks 

I’m never letting the fear of embarrassment stop you from doing anything

In the power of the arts and artistic expression

In my kids

THINGS I WOULD LOVE TO WRITE

Purgatory Road - a horror story 

The Ballonies - comic children’s story

The Audition - a 1-act play

Mr. Monday: an epistolary story

A time travel romance

Adaptations of classic tales/mythologies

Reed’s Oz-some Adventure

Alex’s Adventures in Wonderland

Mastering the Illusiom of Control

A one-man play

A play adaptation of Crime and Punishment

A comedy textbook for high school and possibly college

A world of child fantasy like AA Milne, L Frank Baum or Roald Dahl

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I know I could write more, but this is an exercise and as with any exercise, physical or mental, the individual gets to decide how much to push it. With my scholars, I find I need to specify a length that will make it easy enough for them to do but also rigorous enough to challenge them. That’s always a struggle. But as with many of my self-identified classroom writers, I have listed enough here to percolate for the future. And, more importantly, that I have written long enough so that I can push past the first few ideas and discover new ideas as well.