Writing Notebook

Sunday, February 24, 2002

Fresh Writing Exercises to Get Your Creativity Flowing

Five Steps to Get You Writing Right Now
A New Point of View: A Fifteen-Minute Exercise
Become Inspired: Writing Exercise
Better Dialogue: Writing Exercise
Borrow a Beginning: A Fifteen-Minute Exercise
Building Better Characters: Writing Exercise
Describing Emotion Effectively
Find Time for Creativity: Writing Exercise
Free Yourself from Three Big Writing Don'ts
Getting Started: Writing Exercise
How to Be More Creative: Writing Exercise
How to Give Your Story a Strong Hook
How to Impress an Editor: Writing Exercise
How to Start a Journal
Improving Your Use of Voice: Writing Exercise
Keys to Writing Great Dialogue: Writing Exercise
Let Go of Your Doubts: Writing Exercise
Make Your Characters Larger Than Life (but Believable)
No More Excuses: Writing Exercise
Setting and Character: A Fifteen-Minute Exercise
Show, Don't Tell: Writing Class Exercise
The Doctor Is In (Writing Exercise)
The Story on Storytelling: Writing Exercise
The Ten Commandments of Fiction: Writing Exercise
Time Out! Staying a Writer by Not Writing
Using Your Senses and the Environment: Writing Exercise
Writing About Simple Pleasures: A Fifteen-Minute Exercise
Writing Within the Genre
Writing from Your Life (Exercise)

Have fun with these exercises. Flex your writing muscles and just be alive to how good it feels to create.
Take a few moments today just to play with words.