Write with TYPE! #88
If I saw an alien...
Creativity is not dead yet.
Look at all these great people doing great things and amplifying voices… and for LOVE, not MONEY. Thanks to Small Publishers Fair for a wonderful event this weekend.
Try this full week of activities to:
Write more
Write better
Write now!
MONDAY
Invent a Mexican wrestler. Name, age, sex, outfit, signature move, fanbase, entrance music… you decide.
TUESDAY
Think about flawed characters while you listen to this The Writing Life Podcast with author Sarah Moss (thanks to the National Centre for Writing).
WEDNESDAY
Is there a better writer, right now, than Wendy Erskine? Watch The Benefactors’ author discuss her craft here.
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Write a rap battle - Patriarchy v Matriarchy. Keep it all in rhyming couplets. Who wins?
SATURDAY
Liam Gallagher famously said that if he saw an alien: “I’d tell it to fuck right off…” What would you say if you saw an alien? What questions would you ask? What would you say about planet Earth, and the people who live here?
SUNDAY
Imagine you are an alien from a far off planet. You land on Earth exhausted after a journey of thousands of light years, eager to learn, and excited for what lies ahead… and then an aggressive Mancunian starts on you as soon as you get out of your flying saucer. What happens next?
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