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Creative Writing
Exercises
Creative writing
exercises also known as creative writing prompts serve as a catalyst
for your writing. Whether you are writing a story that is
literary or mainstream, you story should include the following:
dialogue, narrative description, and use of all the senses. As
a writer, you can let your imagination run wild. Your writing
process or method is a personal creative journey. You can use a
narrator that fits your story and create a world that draws in the
reader.
You can use one of
the writing challenges below to jumpstart your fiction writing.
5 Writing Ideas
Creative
Writing Exercise #1: Develop an interesting character who
stands on the subway platform offering unsolicited advice to people
waiting to enter the train. He gained a reputation for having keen
insight on the lives of people. So much so that riders purposely
missed the subway for their "advice turn." Word spread and
pretty soon people who didn't need to take that particular subway
stood on the platform to listen and to receive advice. Write a short
story about this homeless man and the people he touched.
Creative
Writing Exercise #2: A woman laughed at a genocide exhibit.
Perhaps she laughed because she was nervous. She wasn't quite sure
and neither was the crowd. Write a story with 750 words about this
woman, the exhibit, and the crowd.
Creative
Writing Exercise #3: A ghost gets lost and haunts the wrong
house. Write a story that interweaves the ghosts previous life and
how she ended up living in the wrong house after her death.
Creative
Writing Exercise #4: A man is traveling alone and he
chooses a random bar to have a cold beer. He sits at a bar listening
to "come ons." He notices the rhythm of the lines and
studies the techniques of the men. He decides he will use the phrases
that flop on women to see if the lines work for him. For
writing practice, create a story about this man and his night
at a bar.
Creative
Writing Exercise #5: Take a headline from a newspaper or a
blog and write a fictional story based on the headline. You
can also use a book title and write a story around the title.
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