Writing Exercises Meredith Sue Willis Author and Teacher. More Free Writing Exercises below and here : Exercises 1- 20 Exercises 21- 40 Exercises 41 - 60 Exercises 61-80 Exercises 81-100 Exercises 101 - 120 Exercises 121 - 140 Exercises 141 - 160 Exercises 161 - 180 Exercises 181 - 200 Exercises 201 - 240 Exercises 241 - 260 Point-of-View Characters Whose Gender Is Not Yours We had a discussion in my Advanced Novel Writing Class at NYU about the difficulty of capturing a character who is of a different gender from yourself. Writing about people unlike yourself– by race, ethnic group, age, and certainly gender or sexual preference– is always a big challenge, but also of great interest to a creative writer.
One class member spoke of an excellent contemporary novel written by a woman and narrated by a man. The class member said he admired the book but that it was only about 98% believable as a male narrator. That is, of course, pretty darn good. Exercise #261 Exercise #262 Exercise #263 Exercise #264 Exercise #265 Exercise #266 Exercise #267. Sixty second writer. Right-brained Writing Prompts. Writing Prompts: For the Right Brain inspiring students to be recklessly creative when beginning new writing In 2001, we launched the WritingFix website with twenty-one interactive prompts. Many of those original prompts became our "Right-brained Prompt Collection," which has always been housed on this page. Since the beginning of WritingFix, this page of prompts has been one of our most popular destinations for writers!
WritingFix believes this: No one writes with just the right side of his/her brain. The human brain is too complex and too cross-wired to ever believe that. We do believe this too: Ideas that spark a writer's inspiration can start on the right-side of the brain. And don't neglect the left-side of your brain! During the 2011-12 school year, we will be revising all of the prompts on this page so that they all feature a mentor text as part of the learning process!
Where to Find Free Market Listings. Most writers are aware of Writer’s Market (which this year features an interview with me), the annual directory and online database that updates more than 8,000 listings of where you can get your writing published. It costs $39.99/year to subscribe online. Of course, many writers are also curious about what free resources are available. Here are the best FREE sites that I’m aware of. Some of them feature submission trackers, community message boards, and interesting statistics gathered from official site members. If you know of free marketing listings on other sites, and have found them to be reliable, please let me know in the comments. Note: I recently answered a question on Quora on this topic. Quora is a way to crowdsource an answer to whatever question you want to ask! Free Listings of Book Publishers Be aware that most New York publishers do not accept unagented submissions, so sometimes “searching for a publisher” really means “finding an agent” (see next list).
Duotrope.com. The WWW Virtual Library. Welcome | Book-in-a-Week. Welcome to BIW’s home on the web. This group has been a source of encouragement for hundreds of writers for ten years. It is an honor to be listed in the Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2006, 2007 and 2008. Our motto continues to be BIC HOK TAM, which means butt in chair, hands on keyboard, typing away madly.
This is the best way we know of to get any writing done. We hope you will join us in meeting our writing goals. Moe BIW List Moderator/Webmaster What Members Are Saying: “There’s something about BIW – something about us all being in this together – that motivates me to push to make my goal no matter what else comes my way. “BIW is by far the best internet writers group I have ever participated in. “BIW is strenuous but not stressful; meaning, the only pressure to meet our goals comes from the inside not from something external (like job pressure). “There is incredible support and friendship available in a writing group such as this one. Be Sociable, Share! M. The Poetry Society (Home Page) Creative Writing Ideas, Courses Online, Free Classes for Writers.
Writing Tools/Software. Writing & Blogging Prompts, Story Topic Generators, Photo Inspiration. Writing : Creative Writing & Blogging Prompts Topic Starters, Picture Prompts, and Thought-Provoking Questions for You to Answer "The best learning comes in the doing, and writing from prompts engenders doing. "— Judy Reeves Many writers and bloggers seek out articles, prompts, and story starters to get their creative juices flowing. We've also listed recommended resources outside of our domain featuring more free writing prompts, story starters, daily writing exercises, visual art prompts, and writing topic generators.
Writing & Photo Prompts, Tools, & Generators on Creativity Portal "Novels, short stories, flash fictions, memoirs, personal narrative and creative nonfiction, even poetry — all have found publication from their start as writing prompts. " — Judy Reeves Take Ten for Writers Exercises Get creative with these exercises from Bonnie Neubauer's Take Ten for Writers! Brickstorming Your Legacy Brick What would you write on your legacy brick in 3 lines with 14 characters each?