I only have time for a quick post today, so I want to share three of my favorite writing exercises. I don't often do exercises just because I like to feel like I'm in the middle of writing a story too much, and an exercise feels like a detour. This is amazingly silly of me, but it's how my brain works, so the best exercises that I've found work for me are ones that either give me new stories or make me feel like I'm making progress on the ones I want to be working on more directly. Each of these does one of those things, either by giving me new story seeds or by directly informing stories that I'm working on: