Ten-minute start
Pick one prompt, write without stopping, circle one live sentence, and use it as tomorrow’s first line.
Practice Lab
Prompts with a purpose.
These are group-ready drills. Each one names the skill being practiced, the time needed, and the steps that turn a prompt into learning.
Practice Routines
Repeatable ways to keep writing between meetings.
Revision pass
Choose one old paragraph and revise only for structure, then only for sentence movement.
Feedback prep
Before submitting, write the exact question you want readers to answer.
Reading transfer
Read one page, name one move, and imitate the move with your own subject.
Purpose Switch
- Choose one subject.
- Write it as a memory.
- Write it as an argument.
- Write it as instructions.
- Underline what changed in diction, structure, and evidence.
Genre Translation
- Take a true local event.
- Write it as a news brief.
- Write it as memoir.
- Write it as a mystery opening.
- Discuss what each version owes the reader.
Style Guide Pass
- Bring a paragraph with dates, titles, names, and numbers.
- Mark every consistency decision.
- Choose AP, Chicago, MLA, APA, or house style.
- Revise only for style consistency.
Scene and Summary
- Write one event as a scene.
- Write the same event as summary.
- Combine them.
- Notice where the reader needs to slow down.
Nonfiction Ethics Check
- Identify one claim in a nonfiction piece.
- Mark what is witnessed, remembered, researched, inferred, or imagined.
- Revise so the reader can tell the difference.
Grant Need Statement
- Name the community need.
- Name who is affected.
- Give evidence or observation.
- Name the gap.
- Write a 150-word need statement without exaggeration.
Reading Move Imitation
- Read one Gutenberg page.
- Name one move the author makes.
- Write a new paragraph using the move with your own content.
- Share the borrowed move, not just the result.
Revision Ladder
- Mark purpose problems.
- Mark structure problems.
- Mark development gaps.
- Mark sentence problems.
- Choose only the highest-level issue to revise first.
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