Posts Tagged ‘Exercises’
Creative Brainstorming for Writers
Posted by: Crystal King on: September 10, 2007
- In: Writing
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I’m teaching a course at the wonderful Grub Street on creative writing exercises–unusual ones that I developed as part of my M.A. in Critical & Creative Thinking. My next class is specifically on developing brainstorming maps for writers. Visually exploring plots, characters and themes is something that most writers don’t do very often. We tend [...]
Creative Writing Tool: Why/Why & How/How Diagrams
Posted by: Crystal King on: September 6, 2007
- In: Writing
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The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates
On Wednesday I taught a class that centers around a series of creative writing exercises that I developed as part of my Masters in Critical & Creative Thinking thesis. This week we talked about asking questions of ourselves, our characters and our stories. Read on to discover [...]
Write What You Know?
Posted by: Crystal King on: August 30, 2007
- In: Writing
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A long while back, when I was in the 7th grade, I had the chance to meet Madeleine L’Engle at a young writer’s conference. I think I only shook her hand and said hi, not knowing what else to say, even though she wrote one of my all-time favorite children’s books, A Wrinkle [...]
Alternate Points of View ~ The Napoleon Technique
Posted by: Crystal King on: June 21, 2007
- In: Writing
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Lynn Viehl over at Paperback Writer (excellent blog, get thee to bookmarking it for your RSS reader) has a great post today about finding an alternative way at looking at her stories through the discovery of paintings that enabled her to imagine her world differently. What she describes is a process that is, overall, an [...]
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