writing exercises
does anyone know of any good websites that feature daily or weekly writing prompts? i found one...pymprompts.blogspot.com, but some of the stuff seems kind of cheesy. does anyone else use prompts? i need to jumpstart the creativity again and want to get in the habit of doing a daily structured exercise. perhaps i'll even start posting some exercises here, to kind of get my ass moving on this.
every year since graduation (ok, so this is only the third year, big deal), i've said, "yes, this is the year i will be published," and announced it to everyone. have i been published? no! have i been rejected? no! have i sent anything for consideration to _any_ journal (even some of the bad ones)? no! do i have anything polished enough to send? no!
...do i even have a complete first draft?...of _anything_?
eh...no.
generally, the thing writers hate most is actually putting pen to paper. why do we hate something we love so much? why are we so afraid of writing crap? because it is well known, you can't write anything good without writing pages and pages of crap to come up with it.
that is, unless you're john updike.
so i guess, bring it on. bring on the crap, the horrible sentence structure, the tense disagreement, the poor word choices and repitition. somewhere amongst the generic characters and weak dialogue, there has to be a gem. i hope!
every year since graduation (ok, so this is only the third year, big deal), i've said, "yes, this is the year i will be published," and announced it to everyone. have i been published? no! have i been rejected? no! have i sent anything for consideration to _any_ journal (even some of the bad ones)? no! do i have anything polished enough to send? no!
...do i even have a complete first draft?...of _anything_?
eh...no.
generally, the thing writers hate most is actually putting pen to paper. why do we hate something we love so much? why are we so afraid of writing crap? because it is well known, you can't write anything good without writing pages and pages of crap to come up with it.
that is, unless you're john updike.
so i guess, bring it on. bring on the crap, the horrible sentence structure, the tense disagreement, the poor word choices and repitition. somewhere amongst the generic characters and weak dialogue, there has to be a gem. i hope!