This is a blog prompt exercise I stumbled on while surfing for information on “How to write a good about page for your personal blog.” I love writing prompts of all kinds, and this one seemed to fit my theme for today. I might even link it to my About page when it’s finished. Thanks …
Write 20 Prompts in 10 minutes. The purpose of this exercise is to come up with 20 opening sentences for a potential story. It helps alleviate writer’s block. I have a notebook full of these and do these exercises often when I can’t sleep or just do not seem to have a creative thought in …
I love to write, I love to do exercises, but sometimes the same ones over and over get a little boring and actually hinder my creative flow. One of the sites I stumbled on recently, Toasted Cheese has some fun, not so normal exercises to do. I thought I would start with the “A Self-Interview …
This was written during one of my daily writing exercises. It goes off the T.S. Eliot/John Gardner killer exercise. T.S. Eliot called it “objective correlative”: Rendering the description of an object so that the emotional state of the character from whose point of view we receive the description is revealed WITHOUT ever telling the reader …
I try to write something every day, even if it is crap. I look through brilliant photos around the web to draw inspiration from. I found this one that inspired me. I am not putting it on the website, as the rules of use are not clear. You can take a look at the brilliant …
