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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 Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #9

29 July 2009

Hopefully you have seen some great improvement in your writing since starting doing these creative writing prompts and if you are new you soon will. Guaranteed. Today’s writing exercise is in the form of random phrases creative writing prompts and the purpose of these is to free up your creativity and get that necessary writing [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #12

27 July 2009

Since it is Monday it is probably best to ease ourselves into another working week and what better way to do that than by a lovely and simple random words creative writing prompts exercise. The goal here is to produce a piece of writing from the given list of words below. All of the words [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #8

20 July 2009

Creative writing prompts in the form of random phrases are very similar to words writing prompts, but with the added bonus of having more than one given word to work with. Much of the pressure of being faced with an empty page is removed that way. The idea behind this type of creative writing prompts [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #11

17 July 2009

It’s the end of the week and time for some weekend fun and possibly some getting caught-up with our writing exercises. Today we have random words creative writing prompts and the idea behind these is that you are given a set of ten words which you must utilize to write a story, poem, prose poem [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #7

10 July 2009

Ok, so I know that it is Friday, but that is no reason not to do some writing exercises now is it? if anything, Friday is the perfect day to do some creative exercises, since tomorrow is Saturday and most of you probably don’t have to get up early and go to work. Doing creative [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #10

8 July 2009

Today we again have a creative writing prompt in the form of random words, only this time instead of just a few words we have many. Instead five we have ten. This should make for longer stories and poems and thus stories of a broader scope. The idea behind this simple and effective creative writing [...]

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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 Prompts: Random Phrases to a Story #6

29 June 2009

Well, it’s been a long weekend so I hope you are ready to do some serious creative writing exercises today as well as for the rest of the week. To ease you into it all, I have a nice little random phrases creative writing prompts exercise for you today. The idea behind this exercise is [...]

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Creative Writing Prompts: Random Words to a Story #9

24 June 2009

Today it is once again time for some random words meant to jog your imagination and get you inspired enough to write. The idea behind this type of creative writing exercise is that you are given a set of words which act as story triggers in that they are supposed to inspire a story or [...]

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