Ten-Minute Writing Exercise #10: First Line Telephone

2025 New Year's writing resolution: spend 10 minutes a day getting words on the page.

Today's 10-minute writing exercise is working on first lines. We're playing telephone with the first line of a story, and as usual your anonymish host is writing along. She didn't think Aunt Jean's need to one-up Julia's wedding was going to be relevant but ...

This is a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.