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Thursday February 16, 2006
Take 15 – 20 minutes to complete one of these
excercises.[1]
1. Take a short piece of your writing that you have
written in first person and rewrite it in third person, or vice-versa.
2. Write a short
description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions but sight:
you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes
like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will not miss the
visual details.
3. Think of something -- an object or an
action -- that is ugly or repulsive. Describe this thing in such a way that the
reader will either begin to see it as beautiful or will believe that the
narrator truly believes it is beautiful. Do not resort to falsehood, though.
One way to manage this is to adopt the voice of a narrator who thinks each
repulsive aspect of your thing is sublime.
[1] Questions 1 and 2 are taken from http://www.poewar.com/archives/2004/10/21/fifteen-craft-exercises-for-writers. Question 3 was excerpted from http://teenwriting.about.com/library/exercises/blexerciseuglybeautiful.htm.