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Creative Writing Exercises

Creative Writing Exercises: Writing Powerful and Meaningful Descriptions

24 August 2009

The aim of this creative writing exercise is, as the title suggest, to help you hone and perfect the skill of describing things, people, or places, in fiction. As you probably already know it is descriptions that have the ultimate power in transporting the reader into the fictional world that you are creating. But it [...]

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Creative Writing Exercises: Create Your Own Character

1 July 2009

Time for a creative writing exercise today, since we really have not had one of these for a long time. Today’s exercise finds it’s way into practically all creative writing textbooks, which only means that it is a great exercise and can really help you write more believable characters. Essentially this writing exercise deals with [...]

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Creative Writing Exercises: The Differences of Style, Tone, Voice and So On

21 April 2009

Today’s creative writing exercise is aimed at learning how to alter the style, tone, voice sentence structure and all the other elements that go into telling a story so as to be able to tell the story more effectively. There’s different ways to telling every story and some are more effective than others. This exercise helps in determining which way of telling is the best for a given story and will help you learn how to manipulate the fictional elements to achieve the desired effect. It is also good for shelling out the character’s voice, determining which tense is best or which narrative style the story should be told in.

And the exercise is…

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Creative Writing Exercises: Starting a Story

8 April 2009

This creative writing exercise calls for writing first sentences of stories, but ones that deal with clear and predefined essences or meanings.  So, write a first sentence about happiness, then write one about sadness.  Write a first sentence about love, then write one about hate.  Write a sentence about pleasure, then turn around and write [...]

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