Start With This

14/09/2021

New Episode: The Burnout Cycle with Janina Matthewson
Burnout is real and it comes around on the regular.

The creators of Welcome to Night Vale Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink believe the only bad writing is not writing. Start With This is a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion.

10/09/2021

New Episode: Perceiving the Audience with Guest Sarah Maria Griffin
Author and poet Sarah Griffin joins us to talk about how the awareness of an audience affects our writing.

The creators of Welcome to Night Vale Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink believe the only bad writing is not writing. Start With This is a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion.

16/08/2021

Assignment: Write a review of a movie that doesn’t exist.

09/08/2021

Assignment: Go to the Random Sentence Generator. Generate two sentences. Write a one-page story where these are the first and last sentences.

The Random Sentence Generator contains 1000+ random sentences created specifically for this free writing tool and found nowhere else.

02/08/2021

Assignment: Write a synopsis for a novel called "Hark All You Gutter Saints"

26/07/2021

Assignment: Write a story from the point of view of a sentient tree. The tree can't speak or walk, but it can think and feel.

19/07/2021

Assignment: Think of a pop song you really like. Now re-write that song as a prose story.

13/07/2021

Assignment: Imagine your favorite scene from any movie or TV show or play. Now re-write that scene from memory.

28/06/2021

Assignment: Go to a random Wikipedia page with this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Now explain a situation where the fate of the world depends on the knowledge found on that page.

"Two Dollars in the Jukebox" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in November 1976 as the third single from the album Rocky Mountain Music. The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

21/06/2021

Assignment: Look at the 5 day weather forecast. Tell a 5 sentence story, using each day's forecast as inspiration.

15/06/2021

Assignment: What is the sky thinking right now?

11/06/2021

New Episode: But How Does It End?
How do you land the ending?

The creators of Welcome to Night Vale Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink believe the only bad writing is not writing. Start With This is a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion.

06/06/2021

Assignment: Take your favorite last sentence from a book, and use it as the first sentence for a new work.

10/05/2021

Assignment: Describe being scared without using the word scared (or its synonyms).

03/05/2021

Assignment: Create two truths and a lie for a fictional character (could be your own or one from a work you enjoy).

19/04/2021

Assignment: You've just discovered a canyon. Name it.