Writing Activities

Practice

Quick Write Sprint

Challenge yourself with a 5-minute writing burst

Inspiration

Daily Writing Prompt

Get inspired with today's creative prompt

Learn

Master a Technique

Learn advanced writing methods and styles

Create

Story Starter

Begin an exciting new story with a creative opener

Character Workshop

Create compelling characters for your stories

Challenge

Daily Challenge

Take on today's special writing challenge

Community

Feedback Exchange

Share your work and get constructive feedback

Plan

Set Writing Goals

Plan your writing journey and track progress

Daily Goal

350/500

Streak

7 days

Best: 10

Exercises

24

Completed

Next Milestone

10k

words

Graduate Doctoral Writing Exercises!

Writing exercises designed specifically for graduate-doctoral.

Improve your writing skills with exercises tailored for graduate-doctoral.

Engaging the Senses: Crafting SEO-Optimized Descriptions

This exercise challenges participants to enhance their SEO writing skills through the integration of sensory descriptions, making content more vivid and engaging.

advanced45-60 minsseo-writing

Persuasive Pitch: Elevate Your Advertising Message

This exercise challenges you to craft a persuasive advertising pitch utilizing rhetorical appeals to engage a target audience effectively.

intermediate45-60 minsadvertising

Voices in Debate: Crafting Dialogue for Opinion Pieces

This exercise focuses on honing the skill of dialogue-writing within the context of an opinion-editorial piece.

intermediate45-90 minsopinion-editorial

Personifying Scientific Concepts for Blog Writing

Enhance your blog-writing skills by bringing scientific concepts to life through personification.

intermediate30-60 minsblog-writing

Building Tension in Grant Proposals

This exercise focuses on crafting compelling narratives that build tension and urgency in a grant proposal, vital for captivating reviewers.

advanced30-60 minsgrant-writing

Translating Your Research Journey

This exercise invites you to reflect on your academic journey and share it in an accessible manner.

beginner30-60 minsmemoir

Sound and Fury: Crafting Playful Onomatopoeia

This exercise invites participants to explore and integrate onomatopoeia into their playwriting.

beginner45-60 minsplaywriting

Citing the Future: A Sci-Fi Exploration

This exercise involves crafting a short science-fiction narrative while incorporating academic citations to support speculative concepts.

intermediate90-120 minsscience-fiction

Crafting Counterarguments in Literature Reviews

This exercise challenges doctoral students to thoughtfully incorporate counterarguments into their literature reviews, enhancing the depth and critical analysis of their work.

intermediate90-120 minsliterature-review

Unraveling the Clue

An introductory exercise aimed at understanding audience-awareness in mystery writing.

beginner30-60 minsmystery

Metaphorical Reasoning in Legal Writing

This exercise encourages advanced graduate-doctoral students to explore the use of metaphor in legal writing, enhancing their persuasive skills and clarity.

advanced120-180 minslegal-writing

Perspectives in Policy: A Multi-Faceted Approach

This exercise challenges you to explore a specific policy issue from multiple viewpoints, developing a white paper that synthesizes these perspectives.

intermediate60-120 minswhite-paper

Crafting Historical Authenticity

This exercise challenges you to construct a detailed instructional scene set in a chosen historical period, emphasizing authenticity and engagement.

intermediate45-60 minshistorical-fiction

Symbolism in Web Content Creation

This exercise guides graduate students in exploring and utilizing symbolism in their web content writing.

beginner60-90 minsweb-content

Historical Fusion: Crafting a Short Story

In this exercise, you will blend extensive research with creative storytelling to craft a compelling short story that intertwines historical facts with fictional elements.

advanced120-180 minsfiction-short-story

Assonance in Action: Crafting Engaging UX Microcopy

This exercise challenges you to incorporate assonance into UX writing, enhancing the rhythm and engagement of your content.

intermediate30-45 minsux-writing

Reflections of Self: A Pivotal Moment

Explore a significant moment in your life that shaped your identity and character in a profound way.

advanced90-120 minsautobiography

Meter Mastery in Songwriting

An advanced exercise focusing on the use of meter in songwriting.

advanced90-120 minssongwriting

Technical Vocabulary Enhancement

An exercise designed to help graduate and doctoral students improve their technical vocabulary in their respective fields.

intermediate30-60 minstechnical-writing

Integrating Evidence into Your Argument

This exercise focuses on helping graduate and doctoral students learn how to effectively incorporate evidence into their research papers.

beginner45-90 minsresearch-paper

Setting the Scene in Travel Writing

An exercise designed to help graduate-level writers enhance their ability to create vivid scenes in travel writing.

beginner20-30 minstravel-writing

Pacing the Palate: A Journey Through Flavor

In this exercise, graduate-level writers will explore the intricate relationship between pacing and flavor in food writing.

intermediate60-120 minsfood-writing

Precision in Scientific Writing

Enhance your grammatical precision in scientific writing through a focused exercise.

advanced90-120 minsscientific

Crafting a Compelling Proposal Narrative

This exercise will help you practice developing a narrative arc within a research proposal, ensuring that your ideas flow logically and engagingly.

beginner30-60 minsproposal-writing

The Anatomy of Deception

In this exercise, you'll craft a short thriller story that weaves in realistic technical details to enhance authenticity.

intermediate90-150 minsthriller

Crafting Policy Narratives

This exercise focuses on enhancing the participant's ability to show rather than tell in policy writing.

intermediate90-120 minspolicy-writing

The Voice of the Expert: A Case Study Narrative

An advanced exercise aimed at graduate and doctoral students to develop their narrative voice through the lens of a case study.

advanced120-180 minscase-study

Documenting a Romantic Encounter

This exercise encourages graduate-doctoral students to creatively document a fictional romantic encounter, honing their skills in narrative construction and emotional expression.

beginner30-60 minsromance

Similes in Medical Writing

This exercise helps graduate and doctoral students hone their simile-creating skills to enhance clarity and engagement in medical writing.

beginner30-45 minsmedical-writing

Ethereal Landscapes

This exercise invites you to explore the power of descriptive language through the lens of poetry, encouraging vivid imagery and sensory details.

intermediate30-60 minspoetry

Social Allegory: The Digital Dialogues

Explore the complexities of social media through allegory to enhance your narrative skills.

advanced60-120 minssocial-media

The Art of Literary Process Explanation

Explore the intricacies of explaining your creative process in literary fiction.

advanced90-120 minsliterary-fiction

Crafting Imagery in Email Marketing

This exercise challenges you to create compelling imagery within the context of email marketing, enhancing engagement and response rates.

intermediate30-45 minsemail-marketing

The Power of Personal Narrative

This exercise encourages graduate and doctoral students to harness personal experiences as a storytelling tool in journalism.

beginner90-120 minsjournalism

Alliterative Technical Terms

An engaging exercise to help you practice alliteration while writing technical documentation.

beginner15-30 minstechnical-documentation

Biographical Simplification

In this exercise, you will practice simplifying complex biographical information into clear, concise summaries.

intermediate45-90 minsbiography

Consonance in Scriptwriting: Crafting Impactful Dialogue

This exercise focuses on utilizing consonance to create rhythm and musicality in dialogue, enhancing the emotional weight of characters' interactions.

advanced60-120 minsscriptwriting

Crafting Persuasive Character Dialogue

This exercise focuses on developing character dialogue that effectively conveys arguments and conflicting viewpoints.

beginner30-45 minsfiction-novel

Crafting Cadence: A Speech for Change

This exercise focuses on mastering rhythm in speech writing, aimed at graduate-doctoral students.

intermediate45-90 minsspeech-writing

Narrative Frameworks: Building Your Plot

This exercise will help you understand the elements of plot construction and how to weave them into a cohesive narrative essay.

beginner120-180 minsessay

Rhyme for Impact: Crafting Catchy Copy

This exercise encourages doctoral graduate students to infuse creativity into copywriting by practicing rhyming techniques.

beginner30-45 minscopywriting

Enhanced Conciseness in Academic Writing

This exercise focuses on refining your ability to express complex ideas in a succinct manner, which is essential for academic writing.

intermediate30-60 minsacademic

Debating Content Strategies

This exercise encourages graduate-doctoral students to craft a compelling content marketing strategy while critically evaluating common logical fallacies.

advanced90-120 minscontent-marketing

Constructing a Believable Fantasy World

This exercise challenges you to create a detailed and immersive fantasy world by integrating sociocultural, geographical, and historical elements.

advanced90-120 minsreview

Constructing Ethereal Realms

An advanced exercise in crafting unique fantasy worlds with a distinct tone.

advanced60-120 minsfantasy

The Clarity Quest: A Short Story Challenge

This exercise aims to enhance clarity in creative writing by crafting a compelling short story with specific guidelines.

beginner30-60 minscreative-writing

Pitching the Future: A Persuasive Business Proposal

Craft a compelling business proposal that persuades stakeholders to invest in an innovative idea.

advanced120-180 minsbusiness

Tracing Your Academic Journey

A personal narrative exercise that encourages you to reflect on your academic path.

beginner30-60 minspersonal-narrative

The Haunting of the Disorganized Mind

An advanced exercise in structuring a horror narrative that explores the chaos of fear and its impact on the psyche.

advanced120-180 minshorror

Exploring the Past: Integrating Flashbacks in Reports

This exercise encourages graduate-doctoral students to apply the flashback technique in their report writing, enriching their narrative with background context.

beginner30-60 minsreport-writing