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A six-week workbook of short exercises and reflection prompts for adults who want to start a daily writing habit. Each week is one chapter with ten-minute exercises to do with pen and paper, blank lines to write on and a page to look back on the week. Folio wrote it from one paragraph; each chapter runs about 3,000 to 3,800 words where the brief asked for about 2,800.
6 chapters · 21,038 words · 75-page PDF. It has not been edited, so judge the prose and the file for yourself.
A six-week workbook of short exercises and reflection prompts for adults who want to start a daily writing habit. Each week is one chapter of about 2,800 words with a few ten-minute exercises the reader does with a pen and paper, and a short page to look back on the week. Audience: Adults who want to write a little every day and have never kept the habit. Tone: Encouraging and practical. Do not state any statistic, study, survey, quotation, case study, testimonial or named person, and do not describe what research shows. Do not describe hypothetical writers or give anyone a name: speak to the reader as 'you'. Every exercise is something the reader does themselves with a pen and paper.
Screened mechanically for what the brief forbade (a statistic, study, survey, quotation, case study, testimonial, named person or a claim about what research shows): the only figure is the ten minutes an exercise takes, and no person is named. It carries blank lines for the reader to write on. Nobody has edited the text, and nobody has read it for quality.
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