Writing Exercises
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- Ten Minute Writing Exercise - Your Ideal Future VisionTen minutes, a pen and a paper will act as a crystal ball for your ideal future in five years. Print these instructions do the exercise and then share your future surprises. It's fun and it works!
- Creative Writing ExercisesAs writers it can sometimes be hard to get going, especially when there is no one there to tell you what to do or when to start. As a writer you have to get your creative juices flowing on your own. Here are some exercises to help you do just that.
Three Writing Exercises to Get Your Creativity GoingEvery once in a while, writer's block or writer's laziness kicks in. Even though you may not be in the mood to write a whole article or some of your book, you should still write a little.- Five Writing Exercises to Improve Your Writing SkillsIt's a statement that writers hear over and over: If you want to be a writer, you have to write. No magic bullet, no miracle solutions to developing you into what you dream to be. You just have to start writing - and keep writing.
A Writing Exercise in Being ConciseA good exercise for students in being concise and to the point. They have to tell a whole story in a paragraph. Example below.- Book Review: The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who TeachAs someone who wanted to become a better or more refined poet, The Practice of Poetry, Edited by Robin Behn and Chase Twichell, is a wonderful resource that any poet will find particularly useful.
Creative Writing PromptsMost writers have periods where they need help to get their imaginations going again.- Writing Exercise: Making a Life JournalInstructions on how to use a life journal to hack the past and remember forgotten things for use in memoir writing, nonfiction reflection, and inspiration.
Five Writing Exercises for Writing FictionFor writers, there is nothing worse than when the narrative comes to a grinding halt. For some, freewriting is enough to get started again. Others need more directed exercises.
Creative Writing Prompt No. 5A writing prompt.- Goldberg's Words on Words Are Spot OnA book review of Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down The Bones.
- Creative Writing ExerciseA 507-word detailed description of my writing environment.
- How to Use Your Life to Write a Novel: Writing Exercises to Get You StartedThis guide has writing exercises to help you to use your life to write a novel.
- Outdoor Writing Exercises for KidsIf getting your kids to write is a challenge, try some of these exercises to help them find inspiration in the world around them.
- Who Am I?A writer I greatly admire once wrote about an exercise asking the question "who am I?" and every answer he gave to the asking was different. My version turned into poetry. I invite you to make your own.
- Fictional Interviews with Wicked PeopleIn this fifth writing guide in this series, writers move to the intermediate topic of character building by interviewing a killer from one of the previous writing assignments.
- Catching Yourself, and the Challenge of Keeping Your Writing RealContinuing from the article Killing People You Don't Like... amateur writer Zoe Whitten explains how to take those random death scenes and crank out another set of writing exercises by beating a dead horse to search for clues.
- Killing People You Don't Like, and Other Benefits of Creative WritingExpanding on her first writing guide, Zoe Whitten explains how that "dreadful thought" can become the seed for your creative writing efforts.
- Three Simple Writing ExercisesLearn how to deal with writer's block.
- Creativity and Novel Writing: Exercises to Get Ideas and Energy FlowingMost writers I've spoken with say that inspiration hits like a bolt of lightning. This may be so, but you have to make yourself a proverbial conductor. Here are a few exercises, from free-writing to several ideas.
- How to Encourage Students to Speak in Class Using an A/B Writing ExerciseCan't get your students to discuss things in class? Give them an A/B writing exercise. Forcing them to justify a position in writing will give them plenty of material to talk about during the discussion.
- Drawing Out the Past - Writing Exercises for Memoir WritingIf you've decided to take the enormous task of writing your life story, you may find yourself scratching your head from time to time, stuck on a particular point in your life, or missing years. Here are some simple exercises to jog distant memories and draw out your past.
- Writing Prompts: Ten Prompts to Get You Started WritingTen prompts to get you started writing.
- Writing Exercise: Interconnect Your StoriesIt is a fun exercise that may change the way in which you write.
- Writing Exercises to Build CreativityTrying something different with your writing once in awhile gives your creativity a boost and generates new ideas for both articles and fiction. Here are five writing exercises that can benefit a writer in a rut.
- 5 Ways to Help Improve Your Child's CreativitySuggestions for teachers, baby-sitters, and/or parents for improving children's writing.