Last year at some point, I made myself do a little exercise where I listed my main WIPs and what it would take to get them finished and also what's holding them up.  It was really useful for me, so I'm gonna do it again, seeing as I have these fics that are so so close to being finished.

[4 fics that I conceivably finish]The Merlin OT4 Gift Fic for Concinnity
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Exercise for today was to write a 500 word thing made up entirely of imperatives (do this, do that), which is an indirect way of doing second person.

I didn't draw names out of hat, because I knew immediately who I wanted to do this exercise with.

[Chris Argent - Imperative - (560 words) Warnings for grief]Chris Argent - Imperative - (560 words) Warnings for griefOpen your eyes. No, really, open your damn ( Read more... )

I was following skellerbvvt on tumblr, who was doing a series of creative writing exercises that seemed cool, so I went to amazon and picked up the e-book.  It's The 3AM Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction by Brian Kiteley.  The exercises do seem pretty cool; I'm looking forward to slogging through them.  Kiteley can be ( Read more... )