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Fiction Writing Exercises for the Holiday Season
Fiction writing exercises for the holidays. Looking for creative writing ideas or fiction writing exercises this holiday season? You’re in luck, because I have something special for you. Before we...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Step Out of Your Shoes
Step out of your shoes with these fiction writing exercises. photo credit: threefingeredlord One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of being a writer is creating characters. It is an...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Become Your Nemesis
Become your nemesis with these fiction writing exercises. These fiction writing exercises will benefit both fiction and nonfiction writers. They are designed to help fiction writers gain a better...
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Flash Fiction Writing Exercises
Try these flash fiction writing exercises. These fiction writing exercises are designed to help fiction writers shave away the fluff and reveal the bare bones of a piece of fiction. We’ll start with...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: How to Write a Complex Villain
Write a complex villain with these fiction writing exercises. When it comes to writing fiction, we each have our own unique challenges. For some of us, it’s a struggle to come up with names for our...
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Getting Into Character: Fiction Writing Exercises
Fiction writing exercises for developing characters. Writers are not actors, but sometimes we need to get into character. To truly understand the nature of a character, a writer must step into that...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: A Story for a Song
Fiction writing exercises: story and song. Art Begets Art A compelling story speaks to us much the same way that music does, communicating thoughts, feelings, and ideas in ways that go beyond concrete...
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Fiction Writing Exercises for Exploring and Developing Theme
Develop themes in your writing with these fiction writing exercises. Good fiction is comprised of many parts: plot, characters, setting, scenes, and dialogue. But we rarely talk about theme, even...
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Fiction Writing Exercises for Developing Setting
Develop setting with these fiction writing exercises. Setting is one of the most important elements in fiction writing. If your readers don’t know where the story is taking place, they’ll get lost and...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Symbols and Symbolism
Fiction writing exercises: symbolism. Today’s post comes from my book 101 Creative Writing Exercises. This is from “Chapter Five: Fiction.” Symbols and Symbolism In Alice and Wonderland, a white rabbit...
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From 101 Creative Writing Exercises: Chekhov’s Gun
From 101 Creative Writing Exercises: Chekhov’s Gun. Today’s post is from my book, 101 Creative Writing Exercises, which is available from your favorite online bookseller in paperback or as an ebook....
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Fiction Writing Exercises for Creating Characters
Create characters with these fiction writing exercises. Whenever I’m working on a story idea, I spend a lot of time during the development stages making character sketches and writing backstories for...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Step Out of Your Shoes
Step out of your shoes with these fiction writing exercises. photo credit: threefingeredlord One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of being a writer is creating characters. It is an...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Becoming the Antagonist
Fiction writing exercises for understanding opposition. These fiction writing exercises are designed to help fiction writers gain a better understanding of their characters, including antagonists, by...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: The Power of Prose
Fiction writing exercises for crafting strong prose. When we writers discuss fiction, we usually focus on plot, setting, dialogue, and especially characters. These, of course, are the essential...
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Fiction Writing Exercises for Stimulating Creativity
Stimulate your creativity with these fiction writing exercises. Do you ever feel like the story you’re writing is bland? Like it needs to be spiced up? Or maybe you want to write a story but you’re...
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Getting Into Character: Fiction Writing Exercises
Fiction writing exercises for developing characters. Writers are not actors, but sometimes we need to get into character. To truly understand the nature of a character, a writer must step into that...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Step Out of Your Shoes
Step out of your shoes with these fiction writing exercises. I recently shared a writing exercise that encouraged you to get into a character’s head. Today’s exercise asks you to go a step further and...
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Flash Fiction Writing Exercises
Try these flash fiction writing exercises. These fiction writing exercises are designed to help fiction writers shave away the fluff and reveal the bare bones of a piece of fiction. We’ll start with...
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Fiction Writing Exercises: Change the Tail
Change the tail on these fiction writing exercises. Fiction writing exercises improve your writing by challenging you, providing you with fresh ideas, and forcing you to approach fiction writing from...
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