SPEAK, DON’T SPEAK V. Hereafter follows the first-person version of IV. A sharp-edged gust of wind threatened to snatch my hat from my hand and send it cartwheeling down the beach. I was out of practice at this, it seemed. My skirts were too long, my coat too thin, my hat nothing more than a […]
Exercising the Mental Muscles: Part III A sharp-edged gust of wind
April 2nd, 2017 · No Comments
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Exercising the Mental Muscles, Part II: She was out of practice at this
March 3rd, 2017 · No Comments
Continuing the variations on a theme exercises I did from Wonderbook. I’m sparing you the “dialogue only” version, which did not really work, and the combined “description only/dialogue only” version, which was not much better. Today’s version is third person and ended up being past tense vs. present. I think I might need to […]
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Exercising the mental muscles. Part I: The Shore is Grey
February 19th, 2017 · No Comments
I’ve been less productive than hoped since Christmas (work, events, general laziness to blame) but I did revisit some of the exercises I did from Wonderbook by jeff Vandermeer. The last one was quite challenging, as it involved rewriting a scene multiple times (some of which I admit to having skipped from lack of interest). […]
Work that brain!
September 9th, 2016 · No Comments
To keep my writing muscles working while I’m suspended in “I’ve written everything that I know happens and now must actually develop a world and a plot” mode, I’m doing writing exercises. I’ve just started on the ones featured in Ursula K. LeGuin’s wonderful book Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the […]