Day 148: Smoke-filled rooms

It’s Writing Day!

Writing Prompt: Give yourself a film noir-style narrator.

Add some grit to your day by taking after a private eye in an old drama and adding a running monologue of what’s happening. Go for big metaphors and small words.

If you need some inspiration, I recommend listening to Pat Novak For Hire, a 1940s radio drama. It’s both hard-boiled and hilarious, with lines like "It was pretty dark, so when I bumped into her, all I got was a vague outline. . . . She had a good-looking vague outline." You can download it as a podcast here.

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Catch up on previous Writing days:

• Use your senses

• Write a six-word memoir

• Is a picture worth 1,000 words?

• Imagine your calendar for this time next year

• Try blackout poetry

• Write a letter to someone

• What’s your lockdown language?

• Document your life right now

• Is there a fact you can’t forget?

• What’s your personal meme?

• What made you realize you were an adult?

• Make a mini-presentation about something interesting

• Who was your best teacher? Who was your worst?

• Have an AI do the writing for you

• How have you changed?

• Learn about word origins

• Design an ad from the future

• What’s the best advice you’ve been given?

• Write a one-star review of your dinner

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