Day 9: Write playfully
30 days of writing with pleasure
Dear fellow writer,
Welcome to Day 9 of your 30-day Show Up and Write with pleasure challenge!
Your challenge today is to write playfully. Swing on your sentences as a child swings on a set of monkey bars; hop and gallop and skip across the page, celebrating the slippery silliness of words.
If you want to time your writing today, here’s a fun timer to try!
You can find a playful selection of timers on the Timed Writing (Pomodoro) playlist on my YouTube channel, and many more in the WriteSPACE membership library.
Thanks for showing up to write, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Ngā mihi mahana (warm greetings),
Helen
Spread the joy! Please encourage your friends, colleagues, and students to join me in the WriteSPACE, a vibrant, low-cost writing community with members in 30+ countries. As a WriteSPACE member, you’ll get premium access to resources, workshops, and tools designed to help you hone your wordcraft, sharpen your style, and coax your writing gently but firmly out the door.
Books on writing by Helen Sword
Writing with Pleasure
Princeton University Press, 2023
Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
Harvard University Press, 2017
Stylish Academic Writing
Harvard University Press, 2012
The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose
University of Chicago Press, 2016
Love the idea of playful writing and creating a sense of playfulness to fill even the most technical of topics with colour and life! Thanks Helen.
- Elaine
It’s an approach that will never virtually never fail!