Summary
OK this is more of a course I suppose but it is still about as long as a long novel or something so I’ll treat it with the book template for right now
Thoughts
- one of the better books out courses on writing I’ve read
Excerpts & Exercises
- after witnessing something like a fight between a mother and child continue the story for example, why is the mother yelling why is a child acting up.
- Another option is to also just write like a long backstory for the mother events lead her to behaving this way.
- write a scene about something like a mother, losing a child, but but do it in a way where you don’t explicitly mention a death or anything. The example was given about a French woman, being in love with a German occupying soldier, and it being based off the way, she perceived him arriving home.
- The clarify, the above exercise, right from the viewpoint of a grieving mother, where you describe something
- Take one of your favorite scenes and rewrite it from a point of view of a completely different character. And when I say completely different, I mean sort of like a start contrast.
- taking established character and write your observations about them based off of the details from the from the writing from the from the writing
- write an introductory passage for a person, celebrity or character that you know well
- make a list of characters from a work of fiction, and after each character, give a brief description of what they want based off of the text itself. This will help to reveal who is flat, and who is around flat, being one note round being well-developed.
- Take an excerpt of dialogue and create many different versions of it for example, one completely strip down one with only dialogue tags and one with more description, etc.
- this exercise is basically taking a real life conversation without docking anyone and expand it into more of a dramatic or pros worthy dialogue
- take a story and put all the plot points on index cards and then rearrange it
- make two scenes on the same topic to compare suspense versus surprise for example, woman is planning to divorce her husband right to scenes one from her point of view, and one from the husbands
- graph some of your favorite shows or books on Fry tags pyramid
- right about a mundane an hour in a character life no more than five pages as descriptive and interesting as possible you can use flashbacks, but it’s a pretty Monday hours. It’s not anything super exciting.
- use a striking image or intriguing scene as a starting point for a writing prompt and then continue to write what happens next if you write yourself into a box, just start over
- rewrite the ending of a book you’re familiar with
- change the POV, and or tense of the beginning of a novel or story of your choice
- Play around with first person, riding style for example, take a character that you disagree with right in their voice while trying to let your opinion slip through.
- Continue to play around with first person right writing style. Take a narrator who is lying and make it clear to the reader that they are lying while making the part was staying true to the character.
- write a scene using third person for example, something like an interrogation, right from the third person of the cop, that again with the suspect, and then finally do a omniscient third person
- Setting can evoke character describe a setting from two different characters
- also rewrite a famous story with a and giving it a different setting
- rewrite a passage several times, using different pacing each time