What would you imagine a writer’s life to be like, someone that is endlessly toiling away at a keyboard, a typewriter for those older or hipster enough to imagine? Or with pencil and paper in handwriting and rewriting sections of a novel? For me, that is only a small part of what I envisioned when starting my journey but was only a fraction of the ideal that I was imagining.
You spent years training and building your own personal memory palace. You know where everything is organized and places in your mind. One day while wandering around you come into a new section where you find memories and information that you don’t recognize. You start to suspect that there is someone squatting and storing their stuff in your mind.
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You hear a ringing in your ear, in the past it has come and gone. This time is different, it is getting louder and more persistent. After consulting a doctor, they reassure you that everything is normal and that it is almost time for you to wake up…
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While Renovating your new home, you uncover a secret ladder/stairs behind a false wall that lead deep below the ground. At the bottom is a thick metal door with large locking bolts securely locked. As you reach the door, it starts to unlock and as it opens light floods out and a disembodied voice starts welcoming you inside…
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You were cursed as a child, this curse was the cruelest that could have been imagined, a life without hope. Anything you hoped for would slip through your grasp without fail, leading you to grow up not believing in luck or fate, but that success is achieved only through hard work and focus. One day you meet an overly cheerful individual that decides it is their new mission in life to change your perspective…
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Choose a famous piece of art, painting, sculpture or other medium that represents a snapshot in time. Using the aspects that are represented, create a story that integrates those events, scenes or characters that this snapshot was taken from.
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You have received a stack of letters in the mail that you seemingly have mailed to yourself. They are all numbered and after reading the first one, you find that you not only have to follow the instructions held within, but that there are dire consequences to missing any of the sets of instructions. After completing several of the letter’s instructions you realize that you are missing one of the letters from the sequence….
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You have been trapped inside a painting and while you have found a way to move between masterpieces, you can see what is happening outside in the real world through the frame of the painting. You have been witness to many of the comings and goings wherever these works of art have been displayed. One day, someone finally takes notices that you are in the painting and you can communicate through written messages. You begin to write messages of help….
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I know that there is this stigma about setting new years goals around anything these days, however I feel it is the only logical place to set the plan for the upcoming year. This will be published shortly after the work has already begun on this commitment so know that by the time you are reading this I am already taking the first steps down the path.
Challenge Day 13:
There are very few people i would expect that never did this holiday activity at least once in their lives, but why not make it an enjoyable activity to do with your family. Sit down with the little ones and with what ever paper, pens, pencils, markers or crayons they have write a letter to Santa with their wishes documented inside. Even if they are never mailed out, the act in and of itself will stick with them for many years to come. I am excited to do this activity with my daughter since you never really know what is going to come out of her brain on any given day, but it is sure to be entertaining at the very least.