Dear members,
A few weeks ago Blondie came to the mod crew with an idea.
She wanted to do something she called writing excercises,
and since I am making this post you can all asume that we liked her idea very much.
The idea is that these writing excercises will help you to break a writers block or to focus your mind on something else while struggling with a particular chapter or story. To get the creative fluids flowing again and to spark of ideas for a new chapter, story, shortie or poem.
It works like this;
Every so often Blondie will post an excercise and when you feel inclined to use this excercise you can state, for example, in your topic title: Writing excercise 3; first date (this not required though)
Examples of the writing excercises you can expect are for instance:
- first date; write a poem or shortie about a first date
or
- write a poem based on the first 3 lines of a sonet by shakespeare
The difference is that these are not challenges, there is no time limit and you can write a shortie/ poem/ story based on excercise number 1, while excersice number 18 just has been posted. There will be no judging (except from the usual replies) and there are no winners. The lenght of the excercise can be whatever you chose it to be. The only rule is that the writing has to be in some way involved with the excercise.
The excercises are meant for havng fun and helping out.
We hope you will like them as much as we do,
and if you have any questions feel free to ask them here.
The first one will be up soon and appear in this part of the forum.
Good luck and have fun!
Your ewac-moderating crew
*waves* Hello everyone!
Well, I am here with the first writing exercise. I am really excited about this. I hope this will be something fun for the members to partake in, to help jump start some muses and to inspire some wonderful new poems/stories.
So, without further ado....I bring you....
Writing Exercise #1 - Luck
Your story/poem should be related to luck and should include some form of the following phrase: "Luck of the Irish".
Good luck, and here is to inspiration. *cheers*
Writing Prompt #2
Include the given word in both your first sentence/stanza and last sentence/stanza of your story/poem.
Perplexing
Writing Exercise #3
Create a story around this sentence. Feel free to add words or modify it slightly. Utilize the following as the first sentence of the story.
The picture in the catalog had lied.