Unbox 5-Day Hybrid Writing Challenge - Day Five

This is not the end...

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If you missed my introduction to what I call “hybrid writing” and everything it might mean, you can read it here and follow these links to catch up with Day One, Day Two, Day Three and Day Four’s writing prompts and exercises.

Day 5: This Is Not The End

This may be the final day of our 5-day hybrid writing challenge - and the last post you’ll be getting from me this month - but it’s not the end! Any piece of writing, even a very short one, can take months or years to finish. But a first draft in five days, or even in a few hours, is perfectly possible. It's a very rare event that any piece emerges in its almost finished form on the first go – most of the time I find I have to write my way into something (especially those things I call “hybrid”), following it until I find out what it actually might be. The first draft is when I've got to what pretty much feels like some kind of ending, but it is also a place to start. You can't work until you have words on the page.