Setting the Scene

It's a lovely hot day for a walk or a bicycle ride, so how's this for a creative writing task? Describe a journey you do frequently, as if you were writing a travel article.  Not only will this give you a chance to hone your journalistic style, it will also teach you to look at what is familiar with a fresh eye. Setting the scene and learning which detail matters and what can be discarded are important skills, especially when you are starting out on your writing life, so not only will this give you practice at those, it will also send you out into the wide blue yonder (on a blue bicycle??)

Charles Dickens used to say that it was important to spend an hour walking for every hour that you spend writing.  Off you go!