2023 Writer’s Challenge

Challenge Day 20

20. Missed Connections: If you go to Craigslist, there is a “Missed Connections” section where you can find some interesting storylines to inspire your writing. View this post on Instagram A post shared by UCSB Missed Connections (@ucsbmissedconnections) I was surprised to find that there is a UCSB Missed Connections Instagram page. This story resonates. […]

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Challenge Day 19

19. Great Minds: Write about someone you admire and you thought to have had a beautiful mind. My sister was the first in our cousin generation to go to college. It was particularly a big deal because it was the mid-1970’s and not many girls went to college. She had skipped second grade so when

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Challenge Day 18

18. Cleaning: Hey, even writers and creative artists have to do housework sometimes. Write about doing laundry, dishes, and other cleaning activities. Growing up, I never did housework or laundry. I did do yard work but that’s another story. My mom was a clean fanatic but my guess it was because of gender expectations of the

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Challenge Day 17

17. Dictionary Definition: Open up a dictionary to a random word. Define what that word means to you. Since I don’t have a physical dictionary, I used google. Did you know there was a random word generator? Of course there is because if you can think it, someone else has created it already. My random

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Challenge Day 16

16. Addict: Everyone’s addicted to something in some shape or form. What are things you can’t go without? I’ve always loved sweets too much and sometimes would even eat so much I felt sick. In my twenties when I was studying to be a therapist and learning about addiction in general, I would look introspectively

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