The Creative Writing List

Creative writing

1.1

Write various kinds of things, such as:

1)observation

2. Overheard conversation

3. Lists

4. Longings

5. Rough Draft letter

6. Fantasy conversation

7. Character names

8. Quotations from reading

9. Piece of your mind

10. Story ideas

11. Memory

12. Dream

13. Poem

14. Titles of things you're never going to write

1.2

List of lists

1. Things on which i am an expert

2. Signs of winter

3. This person has said to me

4. Things I have forgotten

5. Things I've lost

6. What is inside my body

7. What to take on a journey

8. Things to make lists of

Then pick an item and generate a list. Pick a word from your list and write a paragraph about it. Writer a line about each item on the list.

1.3

Go to a public place and make a list of all proper names And write a paragraph about what they mean or suggest to you.

1.4

Find 5 quotations. What attracted you to that combination of words?

1.5

Listen to a song and write your response to the music. Try not to use the lyrics.

1.6

Pick a prompt and free-write.

1. This journal is...

2. There was something about the way he...

3. The house we lived in. ..

4. In this dream I was...

5. She got it of the car...

6. The first thing I want in the morning...

Focus on Imagery

2.1

Open a book not intended to be a work of imagination. Identify abstractions, generalizations, and judgements. Pick 2 or 3 of them and invent an image that suggests each word. This is a sense impression, not a definition.

2.2

Begin with the largest general category you can that of- food, mineral, animal . Theh narrow the category step by step until you have a single detailed image. without naming the quality, Can you mate the image suggest an idea or direct our attitude toward the thing you described?

2.3

Pick a vivid passage and spoil it by replacing specific details with generalization, and judgements, Trade with another person and create a new and different passage by replacing generalizations with your own sensory details. Compare the results

2.4

write down a bumper sticker you like. Describe the car that its on, Open the door. describe the Smells and textures Name 3 objects you find. Name a 4th object that you're surprised to find. Here comes the owner. Describe them. what do they say?

2.5

write this poem. The 1st line consists of an abstraction , plus a verb, plus a place. The 2nd line describes attire. The 3rd line summarizes an action, Let it flow, don't worry too much about mating sense.

2.6

Quickly list as many clicked metaphors you can think of Then switch around the comparisons-Some of these may be fresh and apt. This will also help you to become aware of cliches and avoid them!

2.7

write about something banal You've done in the past few days. Then replace several nouns with other nouns that are in some way extreme or inappropriate to the subject, Find anything interesting?

2.8

write a paragraph about a thrilling or anguishing experience from your childhood or adolescence, Evoke the emotion you felt in images of all 5 Senses -Allow yourself whatever personification, Metaphor, or simile occurs to You, no malter how extreme.

2.9

write a paragraph or poem exploring your relationship with an animal or machine. Describe the animal or machine using at least 3 senses.

2.10

write a dialogue between 2 people one on a cell phone, the other on a landline. They disagree about something. Develop the disagreement with concrete details. we should learn where each of them is.