In honour of the month November
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Ordinary Days: A one week series with ordinary day photos and happenings (if any 😉 )
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Photography and Poetry

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Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day

Setting limits on your writing can be both liberating and productive, as you may have noticed in Day 1’s timed free-write and yesterday’s word count exercise. Let’s incorporate a different restriction: write a post that takes place during one single day.

It might seem hard, at first, to tell a compelling story with such a limited temporal horizon: you have no recourse to flashbacks, backstory, or foreshadowing (unless it’s in reference to something about to take place that same day). But the narrow confines of one single day will encourage you to zoom in on rich, telling details.

But remember: recreating a single day doesn’t automatically mean describing every detail. This assignment is very much about editing — and focusing on the right details.

How will you use 24 hours as your story’s canvas? Here are examples:

* Start in the middle of the action, then zig and zag through time, from the moment you woke up to the last thing that happened before you retired for the night.

* Structure your story as a play-by-play (or hour-by-hour) account, complete with precise time markers.

* Zoom in even further, limiting yourself to just one hour of your chosen day.

* Ignore these instructions and reveal one day’s significance indirectly, through focusing on its aftermath

“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary” Gerard Way

Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day

For this particular assingment, I decided to go with a completely different approach. I have kind of had a head start for the overall idea of “recreating a single day” since Monday.

I am running a trial of posts this under the theme of “Ordinary Days”, where I am capturing the events of the day in few simple sentences accompanied by daily photos taken during each day. The trial itself was a good idea, unfortunately my life, as it turns out is filled with more work than ever! But still, well worth the while the effort 😉

Maybe Friday will bring a change, since it is after, fabulous!

Please find related posts of the same:
Monday, 16th of November
Tuesday, 17th of November
Wednesday, 18th of November, Part One
Wednesday, 18th of November, Part Two
Thursday, 19th of November, Part One
Thursday, 19th of November, Red

… And watch out for today’s post for Fabulous Friday