Twenty Challenges That Will Help Your Writing

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is try out one of these twenty challenges. I promise that it will help your writing. You can even go back and try some other challenges because it won't self-destruct. 1. Read a biography of your favorite author. 2. Book a trip to somewhere new. 3. Edit a story of yours that is at least a year old. 4. Find a writing buddy. (There might be one in thewriters' den.) 5. Beta-read a book for a friend. 6. Write a sonnet. 7. Take photographs of graffiti throughout your city. 8. Ask a grandparent or a child to tell you a story. 9. Write a short story without using any adverbs or adjectives. 10. Analyze the story structure of your favorite film. 11. Buy a book on writing. 12. Ask your librarian to recommend his or her favorite book. 13. Wonder about the objects in a lost and found. 14. Wait in line without looking at your phone. 15. Read some profiles on a dating app or look at ads in your local paper. 16. Write a story about an obscure holiday. 17. Look up at the clouds and see what shapes you find. 18. Watch people in a hotel lobby. 19. Listen to a new album. 20. Read a book in a genre that you normally hate and try to find something you like.Did you try a challenge? How did it go? Tell me in the comments below.