I put on my resume today that among the things I do is lead writing exercises and it occured to me I have not actually lead one in a few months so if there's interest I'm going to revive not only the Bones exercises but also maybe some of the others like the photo writing challenges and others.

Let me know if you're interested

Here are the rules for these writing challenges

The rules here are pretty basic: I, or someone else, picks the topic. You write about it for 10 minutes and then must stop.

The time must be spent writing, not editing.

Editing is a no-no in this exercise. The idea is to make your inner editor shut up. Everyone who writes is asked to provide constructive criticism for all other writers.

A detailed essay on why exercises like this work and are good for you is here.

More food for thought for writers is here (about Peter Elbow and Annie Dillard) and here (listening matters!)

Links to other writing advice and writing experiments are available via the writing advice group

You can find other writing exercises here