My third week writing challenge was a bit of a cheat. I swapped the challenge from week 3 with another one. The challenge I did was to find an image online and write a story about it.
I liked the way I was both inspired and constrained by using a source image.
Last week's writing challenge was to find a random story online and edit it. Turns out it is a bit harder to find works in progress online.
I did find a piece to work on - about two or so pages. There was a lot that I deleted wholesale, tightened up the dialogue and re-structured parts of it to change the order some of the information was presented. There were several bits of exposition that I cut out as well... though in the authors defence, they may have become pertinent later on in the story. They just weren't important in the section I was working on.
I'm certain the result I have can be edited further, though for the purposes of this exercise, I'm happy with the result that I have.
First week of the eight week writing challenge down. The first week's exercise was to have at least three ten-minute free writing blocks done.
That might seem like a fairly low target but we had the boys here for a large part of that week and I considered one thirty minute session a cheat. I can do a lot more in a week, but managed to hit that target.
Next challenge: find a block of sample text online and edit it.
