Good evening, everyone had a good day? I’ve been at work. I can’t really complain since I only work two days a week, but I do get exhausted by Sunday afternoon. I managed to fit in at least a little writing on my breaks today.
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30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 18
Today’s exercises are about personification of inanimate objects. I’m the first of two exercises a verb has to be swapped for a phrase, and in the second exercise I had to personify a piece if furniture in poetry or prose.
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 17, part the second
I’m back, and so soon.
The twelfth section of this book is actually a really quick exercise. It’s called ‘The blue man woke up’ and ‘was inspired in part by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way’.
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30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 17
Good morning, after working on the ‘Hit & Miss Bibliomancy’ exercise on Wednesday and Thursday I am finally ready to unveil a sample of the short story that resulted from the three words I chose.
30 days of Creative Writing: Day 15
Today I’m working on exercise 1 of the eleventh section of ‘Back to Creative Writing School’. This section is called ‘Hit and Miss Bibliomancy’.
30 Days if Creative Writing: Day 14
Four days late is better than not at all. As I mentioned on Friday this exercise is about music and writing. As I mentioned on Saturday, these exercises are taking longer to complete and require more work to do so. I’ve got exercise 10 finished now though.
I’ve been thinking
Stop laughing.
No it didn’t hurt. No you can’t smell burning.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about this creative writing book I’m working through. I’ve had a quick look through the next few sections and I can see why it’s designed to be worked through over several months. The exercises become longer as the book progresses.
30 days of Creative Writing: Day 10
Today’s exercise discusses the use of music in writing. I have to write a story in which music forces the protagonist back to a specific point in time and cause them to re-evaluate their life.
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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 9
Today’s exercise is another multi-part creature, but it’s not so long as Monday/Tuesday’s. Today alliteration in prose and poetry is the subject under study.
30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 8
Today’s exercise is one of using taste and smell in description, and the principle of ‘show don’t tell’.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 