Monday Mission: Advance Previews

I am going to list the next eight Monday Missions--in case any of you would like to play along, and would appreciate more than a few hours' notice to figure it out. Though hopefully it'll be a nice stock of good ideas regardless. Remember that I don't have a secret army, so there's no deadline.

Feb 26 (today): Book jacket blurb: Write a post in the style of a book jacket plot synopsis, complete with cheesy advertising slogans, if you'd like ("Most riveting exploration of the social dynamics of poop this year!").

March 5: Recipe: Write a post in the style of a recipe.

March 12: Press Release: Write a post in the style of a press release.

March 19: Graphics: Make a chart or graph (either by hand and then scanned in, or in a graphics program). You can use up to 100 words to describe the chart or graph (can be a pie chart, line graph, whatever).

March 26: Release Notes: Jen of Under the Ponderosas explains this as an addendum to a manual for a piece of software. Her idea was to write "release notes" for the childrearing manual that should have come with your kid--of course, if you don't have a kid, that won't work. (Jen, if you have a link to show an example for people, could you leave it in the comments? Then I'll edit the post to add it for the non-techy writers among us.)

April 2: In Reverse: Instead of the standard personal blog post of Introductory Anecdote, Rumination, Epiphany, Resolution, try this: Resolution, Epiphany, Rumination, Illustrative Anecdote.

April 9: Show Don't Tell: This one is harder, and is based on the standard advice to fiction writers to avoid exposition and instead use dialoge and scenes to convey important information. So today, tell a story. A very short story. No rumination, no epiphany, no resolution--all anecdote.

April 16: Advertisement: Write a post in the form of an advertisement for a new product.

Posted by Andrea at February 26, 2007 7:16 AM under Monday Mission

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