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Thursday March 2, 2006
Take 15 – 20 minutes to complete one of these
excercises.[1]
1. Write a
scene using fear that you have felt. You
may give the fear to a character, or write in first person,
autobiographically. Make the details so
clear, so concrete; your reader will feel the same fear.
2. Begin by
writing down a bit of a ritual or an old song that you know by heart. Then intersperse those lines with paragraphs
– anything that comes to mind, allowing lines from the remembered piece to act
as a refrain throughout the piece.
3. Imagine someone in shadow. Keep your attention on the shadowed
figure. She clearly what can be
seen. Begin writing with any words that
come to you. If you feel blocked, go
back to the shadowed figure.
[1] Questions are excerpted from Writing Alone and With
Others by Pat Schneider.