Day 211: There once was...

It’s Writing Day!

Writing Prompt: Write a limerick.

Edward Lear popularized the form in the 1840s, but his limericks are kinda repetitive and not much happens.

You can have more fun than that. (And you don’t need to set yours in Nantucket.)

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Catch up on previous Writing days:

• Fit a story in a tweet

• Write a choose-your-own-adventure story

• Word avalanches

• Nominative determinism

• Write badly on purpose

• Play Exquisite Corpse

• Write a story from a non-human perspective

• Start a dream journal

• Film-noir narration

• 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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