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Here is a writing exercise I just came across:

The Rain Storm:

Compose up to 50 words that help readers truly experience traveling through a severe rain storm.

Writing about anything with a limit of 50 words is challenging. So here's a good test for your wordage. Have fun.

"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live." -Francoise Sagan

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - Robert Heinlein

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." - T.S. Eliot

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." - Cyril Connolly

"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility." - Katherine Paterson

"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room as me." -Dorothy Parker

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do—that's a memoir." -Will Rogers

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Sir Francis Bacon

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." - Walter Bagehot

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