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Journal Prompts

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 Prompts: Story Starter Sentence

20 April 2009

Today’s exercise is yet a little different. Instead of having just a random list of unrelated words or a sentence to base a story about this creative writing exercise involves being given the FIRST SENTENCE of a story. Your story. Write anything you want, but start with this sentence:

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Journal Prompts: Describe, Describe, Describe Those Feelings

16 April 2009

This journal prompt involves describing an event that has evoked some sort of an emotion in you.  All writing, especially writing done by beginner writers, should be as emotionally engaging as possible.  It should make the readers shiver, or evoke some similarly strong response, since you are new, and not yet established and you need [...]

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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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Journal Prompts: Write in the Morning

29 March 2009

Keep a notebook and a pen by your bed and each morning start writing as soon as you wake up. Write about anything you want, it doesn’t have to be fiction, it can just be what happened to you yesterday or what you are most worried about at the moment. Just write. Write 3 pages [...]

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