For all the writers out there
I just thought of a fun sort of meme thing I can do!
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For all the writers out there who have writer's block, need new ideas, or just want to play around with their writing - give me a number between 1 and 201 and I will give you a writing exercise from my creative writing class's textbook! Some of them are really, really cool and pretty ( Read more... )
SO:
For all the writers out there who have writer's block, need new ideas, or just want to play around with their writing - give me a number between 1 and 201 and I will give you a writing exercise from my creative writing class's textbook! Some of them are really, really cool and pretty ( Read more... )
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I'd like 42, please.
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You picked an interesting one!
#42: Invisible Woman
Write a short scene in which a woman becomes invisible, briefly, for no explained reason. I leave it up to you what she will observe in her state of lucidity and transparency: her boyfriend's or husband's or male friend's life, a short scene of men without women, or a scene of another woman and her man (innocent or not). No one can see or hear her. She is not a ghost, and at the end of your narrative return her to her fully fleshed out self, again with no explanations. In other words, don't worry too much about the problem of imperceptibility. Just jump into the story and follow its political, rather than science fiction, consequences. 600 words.
(This came from a part about Men & Women, which is why that's the focus. Also, there is some other general commentary bits from the author about this exercise if you want to see it. All the instructions for it are above though.)
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#57: Wrong Hall
Write about a child who confuses adult realities in some crucial and embarrassing way, several times. These adult realities can be misinterpretations of the meaning of an important phrase. Or you could have the child misunderstand some essential rule, in a way that adults would find very amusing, but which the child does not find at all funny. 600 words.
(The explanation for the title of this is in a story that the author tells in a paragraph or two after this, which I can put here if you want. Otherwise the instructions for the exercise are all in the paragraph above.)
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Okay - #14: No Ideas, But In Things
Write a very brief story told only in images - concrete, simple, visually efficient movements and details. This exercise does not ask you to eliminate people from your prose, just to watch what they do and what objects they crave and caress rather than what they say or think about these objects and actions. 300 words.
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