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http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/03/06/25-things-you-should-know-about-word-choice/ 1. A Series Of Word Choices

25 Things You Should Know About Word Choice

English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers More Exercises: Write the first 250 words of a short story, but write them in ONE SENTENCE. Make sure that the sentence is grammatically correct and punctuated correctly. This exercise is intended to increase your powers in sentence writing. Write a dramatic scene between two people in which each has a secret and neither of them reveals the secret to the other OR TO THE READER.

Exercises for Fiction Writers

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50xs2.htm

Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/06/02/practical-tips-on-writing-a-book-from-22-brilliant-authors/ Steve Silberman reading at the Booksmith in SF. Photo by Heather Champ. I love books. My late father Donald, who taught Wordsworth and Melville to inner-city kids for decades, used to read Ulysses to me while he carried me on his shoulders.