The following is an excerpt from The Children’s Writer’s Guide.
If you drive to work, you probably don’t normally notice the things you pass each day, such as company names and logos, advertising billboards, road signs and so on.
Yet these things too can provide a starting point for your writing.
As an exercise, choose a selection of things that you see one morning then write them down once you get to work.
From there, your task is to create a short story, even if it’s only one page, involving all of those items.
You could also choose ten words that you encounter on the way to work and write a short piece using all of those words at least once.
And if your day wasn’t that interesting, turn that into a writing challenge, too.
Recall the most mind-numbing aspect of your day and write a short poem about it.
It might not win any awards for content or style but creating that poem about such a bland topic might be just what you need to get moving with your writing.
Learn more about The Children’s Writer’s Guide and all Simon’s other books on his website at https://simon-rose.com/.
Simon also offers a variety of coaching services for writers and his Writing for Children and Young Adults online course.
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