Writing Exercises and Why I Love Them by Allison Symes
Image Credit: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. Writing exercises make me think outside of my usual creative box and help me mix up how I create a story. Using Random Generators I use random generators a lot. These include generators for random words, pictures, objects, verbs, themes, questions - the list is almost endless. All make me respond to the challenge of getting a story from what was generated. Often I can generate something and get two different stories. I like that a lot. Double bubble and all that. I send one of those stories off to an online magazine I write for and the other I use for my YouTube channel so I get to tick the submit a fresh story and do some marketing boxes all at the same time here. I like that a lot too. First Drafts and Warming Up When I run workshops, I set exercises. For a recent one at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School, I prepared my material but deliberately didn’t draft my “answers” to the exercises I set. I wr...