Easy Exercise
By Annette Rey
Ok, guys. Here’s a quickie exercise.
Tag Archives: Writing Exercises
Writer’s Resource – Purdue OWL
Online Writing Lab
By Annette Rey
One of my reasons for writing this blog is to help writers understand that learning correct language usage should never stop. If we love to write, we should love the vehicle that takes our readers to places we want to transport them.
I especially sympathize with aspiring writers whose first language is not English. They need additional help navigating the complexities of the language.
The following site offers free access to instruction that will improve all of our efforts to polish our writing projects.
Learn to Cut Words Before You Write Them
Editing Exercises
By Annette Rey
Participating in writing exercises will help break writer’s block as well as improve your writing. Simple, short challenges work just as well. You wouldn’t waste energy exercising your body and not having a body part target in mind. Nor should you engage in writing exercises without a goal in mind for writing improvement.
The next exercise will help you target editing even before the editing stage.
A Writer’s Last Words
Your Ending Sentence
By Annette Rey
Recently, I misinterpreted a writer’s call on Facebook. Someone asked for ending sentences. I thought it was an exercise to think creatively. It turned out to be a call for an actual ending a writer had used in his work.
This mistake gave me the idea to create a writer’s exercise that makes us think in reverse. Start at the end of your work, create that last line, and see how that line affects the way you construct the last chapter, or the ending of your short story, or article. Your physical brain needs exercise and asking it to respond in new ways will challenge a boring routine. These exercises are designed to shake you and wake you.
Write a Story in 35 Words
35-Word Challenge
By Annette Rey
This is a real challenge that beats even flash fiction word limits. Give this a try and remember to make it complete by including answers to the questions: who, what, when, where, and why.
A Fifteen-Minute Memoir
If Stuck, Start Here
By Annette Rey
This exercise can go anywhere each individual writer can take it. Make an effort to be accurate and include high points (and low points) you’d like a reader to know.
The result can be a start to a longer memoir piece.
Exercise Your Pen
Practice Results in Unblocking
By Annette Rey
I tell you writer’s block is an imagination. It’s not real. It has no substance. If you open your mind to such thinking, you will follow advice, go along, and see unblocking results in your own work. I promote doing writing exercises. Once you do them, you will find blocking either goes away in your life or can never exist as long as you keep your pen moving.
In that vein, I am practicing what I preach.
Quiet Observation is a Writer’s Tool
Conversation Is Story.
By Annette Rey
Are you – short on ideas – stumped on character development – unable to complete dialogue – at a loss on detailing scene? Answers for these areas are a car trip away.
Elevator Pitch Challenge
Writers Engage!
By Annette Rey
What is an Elevator Pitch? It is your fifty-word presentation attempt to sell your book limited by the small time period of an elevator ride. Can you convince someone you just met that your book is worth buying? Be prepared with an already polished Elevator Pitch that declares why a buyer should own your book.
Character Challenge, Part Two
An Exercise Worth Doing, Part II
By Annette Rey
This is Part Two of building five distinct characters. I have given you two people in Part One. Read on for the other three.
Writer's Block No More 