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The best 100 opening lines from books. Imagery or Sensory Words. Story Starters for Creative Writing Exercises. One-line story starters are great for group writing exercises.

Story Starters for Creative Writing Exercises

They have enough conflict to start the writing flow, but are open-ended to allow each writer to follow his or her own direction. Individual writers can use them on a regular basis for “practice writing,” following Natalie Goldberg’s suggestions in Writing Down the Bones. Creative Writing Exercises Set a timer for 10, 15 or 20 minutes. Write the opening sentence and then follow it wherever the imagination goes.

As writing exercises for individuals, try doing one each day, or several a week if daily is too much. Develop a Short Story or Novel? If the results of these writing exercises remain intriguing, spend more time with them, either that session or on different days. Story Starters Here are 25 simple story starters to get the creative juices flowing. How to Write in Deep POV + get inside the mind of your character. Photo cred: © Paolo Imbag via Unsplash This post is part of the HOW TO WRITE A STORY guide series.

How to Write in Deep POV + get inside the mind of your character

Have you ever read a story where you feel completely one with the point of view character? It’s as if you are that person. You are living their life, pursuing their journey. You even forget that you are reading a book and that an author lives behind every word. That is an awesome experience, is it not? Novels like these are often written using a technique called Deep Point of View, or Deep POV for short.

In fact, if not done with the utmost care, Deep POV can actually drive readers away. There are plenty of magical novels that have become successes without utilizing the Deep POV technique, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and The Chronicles of Narnia to name a few. 45 ways to avoid using the word 'very'. Writers Write is your one-stop resource for writers.

45 ways to avoid using the word 'very'

Use these 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’ to improve your writing. Good writers avoid peppering their writing with qualifiers like ‘very’ and ‘really’. They are known as padding or filler words and generally add little to your writing. According to Collins Dictionary: ‘Padding is unnecessary words or information used to make a piece of writing or a speech longer. Synonyms include: waffle, hot air, verbiage, wordiness.’

Adding modifiers, qualifiers, and unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, weakens your writing. This post gives you 45 ways to avoid using the padding word ‘very’. 30 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Bad. While I like to think I know a little about business writing, I often fall into a few word traps.

30 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Bad

For example, "who" and "whom. " I rarely use "whom" when I should. Even when spell check suggests "whom," I think it sounds pretentious. So I don't use it. And I'm sure some people then think, "What a bozo. " And that's a problem, because just like that one misspelled word that gets a resumé tossed into the "nope" pile, using one wrong word can negatively impact your entire message.

Fair or unfair, it happens. 100 Not-Boring Writing Prompts for Middle- and High Schoolers. 1.

100 Not-Boring Writing Prompts for Middle- and High Schoolers

Attach an image (photo, magazine, etc.) to a notebook page and write about it. 2. What things will people in the future say about how we live now? (Examples: They ate that? They believed that?) 3. 123 Ideas for Character Flaws) 50 Story Starters. 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes. I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward.

20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes

If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it’s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes. But experience has also taught me that readers, for better or worse, will approach your work with a jaundiced eye and an itch to judge. Writepop - Science fiction stories, humor, and writing about writing. A thousand lifetimes in space – Living on a generation ship 1,000 human beings are selected to board a spaceship headed for the stars.

Writepop - Science fiction stories, humor, and writing about writing

The trip is so long that they will die in space, but their descendants will reach a new planet. To save room on the generation ship, the original population of the ship is all women, with children to be produced by artificial insemination. The first “in-space” generation grows up in a society controlled by women.Variation – To save space on the generation ship, all the original passengers are female. All the children are produced by artificial insemination, all from female embryos.