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By Deb Gallardo
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Here are useful tips and tricks, excerpted from posts at booksforallreasons — a great writer’s resource. Any of these should get you past that pesky blank screen whenever or wherever you’re stuck. Don’t just take these tips as they are here, otherwise you’re missing key instructions. Follow the links to every article (each opens in a new window so you don’t lose your place). These are excellent ideas!
Fiction Writing Exercises — Ideas for Writing Fiction
Tips 1-4
1. …Dictionary Roulette
Open a dictionary at random and choose the first word that appears. Do this twice more, so that you have three randomly chosen words. Now try to incorporate… more on Tip 1
2. …Take if from Here
Read the first paragraph of a story you have never read before in an anthology or magazine (if the opening paragraphs are very short, read the second and third paragraph as well.) Now put the story to one side and…. more on Tip 2
3. …The Untidy Professor
Think of a character with a particularly strong character trait, e.g. absent-minded, lazy, domineering. Place your character in circumstances which conflict with this trait…, build the conflict to a crisis, and…more on Tip 3
4. … Hold the Front Page!
Take a newspaper - local papers and tabloids are often best - and choose a story from it which intrigues you. Imagine the events which led up to the incident described and… more on Tip 4.
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