Writing exercises are a way to improve your skills in one particular field or task.
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In a “learn to do X” book, should a section review come before the quiz / exercises or after?
I am writing a book on how to program in C#.NET.
Each of the sections follows this format:
Section Aims
Content
Section Review
Quiz
Exercises
The section review is there to summarise all of the ...
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What exercises will help me write my co-author's character?
I'm working on a novel together with my co-author, K. K's come up with this great character - a sassy were-cat name Garlic. Unfortunately, I'm having a really tough time writing for Garlic - K has a ...
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Are there good writing exercises for compressing expression?
I recently sat down and wrote a poem after a long hiatus. It was a narrative poem with a formal rhyme scheme. I'm pretty dissatisfied with my initial draft, as it was far too wordy.
Besides editing ...
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How can I make description more natural to me?
Description is a weakness in my fiction. My understanding is that the first priority in fiction is to tell the story. Setting does this by providing props and indicating character mindsets, either ...
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Does reading books help writing skills?
Just what the title says. I decided to improve my writing skills only for blogging purposes (for starters and no, it's not a part of new year's resolution). I am also not really good at writing (i.e. ...
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Dialogue writing practices?
First time novelist, long time writer here. I'm looking for creative writing exercises to help with my dialogue.
Any ideas?
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Is there such a thing as talent in writing? [closed]
One of the answers to my last question, got a lot of comments.
My question based on that is: Is there such a thing as talent in writing?
Are some people naturally gifted in writing, which means ...
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Tips for expanding my vocabulary?
Looking back through my texts, I noticed that I often use a lot of the same words and resort to using quite a basic vocabulary. I was wondering if there are any good exercises or anything else for ...
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What helpful writing exercises do you use?
The two I do most are dialog and description related. When I meet a person or I'm just sitting people watching, I try to write their description in my head as if I was describing a character in a ...
