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WRITING EXERCISE: Choose three words. Autumn, Gold and Retriever. Write for three minutes, beginning with one of the words and incorporating the other two in the first
"If you're stuck in your writing, this exercise will help get your creative juices flowing and build your portfolio."---Susan Reichert
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Exercise in development of a three deminsional characters in your writing.
Using a familiar Biblical character, like David, create one or two sentences about your perception of these various aspects of his character:
Background, environment, how he thought, how he looked, his dress, how he felt, what he taught, how he acted under pressure, flaws, good points, what people liked about him, his secrets, his motivations, uniqueness, and what he didn't want to face.
Once you create a character and answer these questions you will have a more readable, 3 dimensional character in your story or novel.
The more you know about your characters and include in your work the more your readers will see your written image. It puts a movie of your descriptive words in the readers head. Readers will seek out your work.
We did an exercise in dialogue and Speech pattern in whisper mode.
"If you're stuck in your writing, this exercise will help get your creative juices flowing and build your portfolio."---Susan Reichert
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Exercise in development of a three deminsional characters in your writing.
Using a familiar Biblical character, like David, create one or two sentences about your perception of these various aspects of his character:
Background, environment, how he thought, how he looked, his dress, how he felt, what he taught, how he acted under pressure, flaws, good points, what people liked about him, his secrets, his motivations, uniqueness, and what he didn't want to face.
Once you create a character and answer these questions you will have a more readable, 3 dimensional character in your story or novel.
The more you know about your characters and include in your work the more your readers will see your written image. It puts a movie of your descriptive words in the readers head. Readers will seek out your work.
We did an exercise in dialogue and Speech pattern in whisper mode.
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DIALOGUE EXERCISEIn this exercise one side of the room wrote as a boy and the other side responded as a girl.
Dialog shows instead of tells the story, by letting your characters be your mouth piece, this helps move the story forward. Provides balance between descriptions and characters interaction. If you have too much description without dialog it can slow your story down. DIALOGUE...who knew you could have so much fun working with dialogue. Great exercises to have... people think of things they would say. One side of the room had to come up with: "Come play in the dirt with me." The other side had to come up with the reason they could not or would not play in the dirt. WRITING EXERCISE
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Capitalization
Susan quizzed on Capitalization per a recent post by Cec Murphy, who has a daily blog on writing. Check out his blog to find the information on capitalization.
http://cecmurpheyswritertowriter.blogspot.com
http://cecmurpheyswritertowriter.blogspot.com
LOOK, OBSERVE AND WRITE IT
Pay attention and note items in a notebook as you go about day. Savor your day in and day out experiences... the clerk slinging your groceries (did you know they are timed via computer from the time they start the transaction til the total button is hit?) Pumping gas... describe the total process. Etc. This helps you develop your 'describing technique'.
Media Tip
Increase online Presence
Shannon Milholland
#4 referring site is Wikipedia.com & it is a free directory
You can not upload your bio & backlinks to your name But you can have a friend from their computer do this for you.
This increases your online presence and indicates to a publisher that you are a serious writer.
Shannon recommends Andy Stanley's book on speaking to an audience- unique narrative non-fiction.
ENTERING CONTEST...
HERE'S THE SCOOP!
---word limit is the word limit- 1000 words means 1000 words (no whining in writing--just like no crying in baseball from A League of Their Own)
---Read & reRead the contest guidelines and then do them
---only send it once
---if a submission does not adhere to the guidelines the submission is disqualified and not read
---check deadline dates and times, if submitted after the deadline they are disqualified.
Entering contest is a great way to hone your writing skills within a specific set of rules and parameters.
---word limit is the word limit- 1000 words means 1000 words (no whining in writing--just like no crying in baseball from A League of Their Own)
---Read & reRead the contest guidelines and then do them
---only send it once
---if a submission does not adhere to the guidelines the submission is disqualified and not read
---check deadline dates and times, if submitted after the deadline they are disqualified.
Entering contest is a great way to hone your writing skills within a specific set of rules and parameters.
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