Writing Exercise
Being a Teen Gen-Z Writer isn’t Easy
I open my laptop, click on my Medium account, and my “For You” page is overflowing with awesome stories and helpful articles. But when I’m done reading, I notice something in the profile descriptions: almost all of these amazing writers are… older.
By Sahil Rawat3 months ago in Writers
Corporate life-Pretending to love the life I’m losing.
It is so cold, I am freezing. I slowly opened my eyes. I see the sky-wait, wait, trees? Where am I? Is it a forest?? I jump to my feet. What the actual hell. Where am I? I am close to panicking now. Why am I here? Where should I go? Thousands of thoughts are eating my mind, all of them fighting to win. My heart is racing.
By nino abzianidze3 months ago in Writers
Women’s Fashion Trends to Watch for November and December 2025
As autumn deepens into winter, November and December invite wardrobes to transform with the seasons—balancing warmth, texture, and style. In late 2025, women’s fashion embraces purposeful elegance rooted in comfort, sustainability, and individuality. This season’s trends reflect a blend of timeless classics and modern touches, designed for versatile dressing that suits both festive occasions and everyday life.
By BTK COLLECTION3 months ago in Writers
Quiet Luxury: The Rise of Thoughtful Fashion in 2025. AI-Generated.
Fashion has always been a mirror of its time. In 2025, that reflection is calm, conscious, and rooted in care. The once‑glamorous world of high‑speed trend cycles is slowing down to make space for something more meaningful: thoughtful fashion. This movement isn’t about excess or spectacle — it’s about harmony, craftsmanship, and purpose.
By BTK COLLECTION3 months ago in Writers
A Scene With Two Characters
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise - Write a scene in which a character’s body, as well as his mind, is engaged in doing something — stage business. Possibilities listed below: Explore how various activities and settings can change what happens within a scene. For example, what happens when characters are planning their honeymoon if they are painting an apartment or one of them is cutting the other’s hair? Or what happens when characters are having a confrontation in public — say, in a fancy restaurant — rather than in the privacy of their home. It is also instructive to analyze how a writer you admire handles the interweaving of dialogue and body language. Go through one of your favorite stories and highlight all the body language and choreography. We guarantee this will teach you something. The Objective — To give a concrete life to the scenes our characters inhabit. To understand how action and choreography relate to the objects in the scene and how all of these relate to and help shape dialogue and the engagement of the characters.
By Denise E Lindquist3 months ago in Writers
Role Play and Real Play
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter - What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts - The Exercise - Have a fellow writer do this exercise with you. Make up situations involving two people who disagree about something - for example, two friends who have planned to shoplift something, and one is getting cold feet. Or a landlord and a tenant disagree about the terms of a lease. Next, tape your dialogue as you and your friend "act out" the two "roles" in a scene. Don't decide what you're going to say ahead of time. Improvise, through dialogue, as you go along. Then transcribe the dialogue exactly as it was said. Here is where your writer's ear comes in. Read over the written account of your scene. How much of the original exchange is useful for your story? How much of the dialogue might you summarize? And are there any "perfect" lines that you would keep? Finally, try writing the scene using the transcribed dialogue to give shape to the scene. How much of the original dialogue would you keep? The Objective - To hear and see how real talk is repetitive, disjointed, and boring. At the same time, to train your writer's ear to transform actual speech into carefully crafted dialogue.
By Denise E Lindquist3 months ago in Writers
His Freckle Too, Stayed Until Morning
I did not notice it before. That small freckle just beneath his left eye, the one the light always seems to find before I do. How many times have I seen his face and never really seen it? The mark itself is nothing special, really, a speck, a shadow of pigment the sun decided to keep for itself, yet tonight it feels like a secret I have finally been allowed to see.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Writers
