Writezone Fiction Exercise
- A Day in the Life of ...
An exercise designed to help you get to know your character. The beauty of analyzing their day is that there are always opportunities to delve as deeply into their actions as you want.
- Creating Characters
The Character Resume
One useful way to learn more about your characters is to fill out a “resume'' for them. You will need to know a lot about them before you can decide how they will react to the situations you put them into.
- Fifteen Craft Exercises for Writers
Posted by John Hewitt on 10/21/2004 on www.poewar.com
Writing exercises are a great way to both increase your skill as a writer and to generate new ideas for future work. Jump start your imagination with these ones.
- Tips on Self-Editing
This article by Marg McAlister has been reproduced with kind permission of Writing for Success. For further information visit www.writing4success.com
- Trigger Writing
This has been adapted from an exercise by Patricia O'Reilly in her publication, "Writing for Success"
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