Make Something: Horror Story
Hooray! Today’s make something task is a writing assignment. An exercise in brevity, which suits me fine, but in a genre I do not practice. “Write a ten-word horror or […]
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Make Something: Calendar
Business writing students often ask me what it takes to become comfortable and confident as a communicator. My answer may disappoint. But it comes down to one practical action: practice. […]
Make Something: Incongruous
Now this was a fun prompt for a writer and writing instructor: Make something incongruous. Of all the valuable lessons I, an experienced communicator, can teach a hopeful, impressionable writer […]
Make Something: Dots
Today’s prompt for making something suggested using dots. Connecting dots, drawing with dots, coloring with dots. My first thoughts were of pointillism. I was in the mood to play with […]
Everything through Play
(I didn’t have much time for composing poetry today. But while teaching a business writing class at StoryStudio Chicago, I stole a few moments to play with a magnetic poetry […]
Beth Nyland 