‘Finishers Edition’ Writing Camp Day 5
LET’S FINISH IT!!!!
Gooooooooood morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you happen to be! And welcome to Day 5 of Writing Camp: ‘Finishers Edition’!!!!
Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH / Woohoo / Pick whichever one suits your mood today
What Day 5 is all about
Well, this is it, folks. On this final day of Writing Camp: ‘Finishers Edition’, we’ve got just one objective: finishing our Writing Camp projects.
Where do we go from here?
First of all, thank you. Thank you for signing up, and thank you for showing up. Thank you for sharing glimpses of the progress you’ve made and the challenges you’ve faced during this round of Writing Camp. It’s been a real pleasure sharing this time with you.
Secondly: I’ve kept today’s prompts relatively simple. They’re geared towards getting you over the finish line and reflecting on where you need to go next.
Finally, I hope very much that this round of Writing Camp has helped you to get your chosen project into a finished state (whatever that finished state might happen to look like!). If you’ve found it helpful, you can repeat the experience on your own whenever you like, or you can even organise a Writing Camp: ‘Finishers Edition’ of your own using the prompts I’ve provided—I’ll be making all the posts and prompts from this edition of Writing Camp freely available to all for the foreseeable future, and only ask that you give PBP a little shout-out if sharing them with others!
Day 5 Writing Prompts
Pick whichever one feels right for you.
Option 1: Freewriting
Skim through what you’ve produced over this past week. Then freewrite for 5 minutes on any aspect of what you’ve read. Remember: Do not stop. Do not look back. Do not worry at all about using perfect punctuation or sentence structure.
You can use this exercise to jump-start your writing task for Day 5. If you feel like you need to keep going, you can (a) set yourself a goal for your next writing stint today (e.g. set a timer for 20 minutes, or set a goal of writing at least 200 more words) and/or (b) try out Options 2 or 3 below.
Option 2: Directed prompt
Skim through what you’ve produced over this past week. Then take 10 minutes and write about any one of the following:
How your sense of your piece has changed
How your sense of your piece hasn’t changed
Something about where your piece is now going that surprises you
What you’ll need to do to finish your piece
If your piece is a chapter or section, how it fits into the larger work it’s a part of
If you’ve reached your Writing Camp goal and this is all you’ve got time/energy for today, that’s fine! If, on the other hand, you’re still working towards your goal, you can also try aiming to write for 20 minutes or until you have 200 more words.
Option 3: You do you
If you’re at Writing Camp for the camaraderie and accountability rather than the prompts, that’s great! Do your own thing, and let us know about it in the chat!
Ok, folks: time to write! And if you’d like to keep this Writing Camp feeling going a bit longer, you can become a paid subscriber in order to get weekly check-in sessions with occasional prompts and tools.
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VB,
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