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Making your writing fun will inspire you to continue

Taking time seems to be a problem for many people, and the easiest solution is never to stop writing a story. It is often easier to speak and try to convey your perspective than to write something without trying. Still, there is no easy solution if you have ever stopped writing.

Please choose a topic or object, spend 5 minutes writing about it, then stop and read what you have written. Give yourself enough material to understand it. When reviewing, you will see where you missed a point that would have given you the necessary data. Then add to your story by including those points.

Please continue to practice the 5-minute method until it is easy for you to communicate your thoughts within that time frame, and then continue to practice it repeatedly.

Once you have practiced this method, you can extend your writing to 10 minutes or set a timer if you wish. It has to be short and understandable and pretend you are playing a game. Making your writing fun will inspire you to continue. Then increase your writing to 15 minutes.

You will even find that some writers can use verbal communication in various ways, such as writing, singing, dancing, and even music. The practice will be a great tool to improve your communication skills and create a good income source for your family.

If you get stuck or have trouble explaining something in a short time, see if there is a challenge that seems to block the flow. It is easier to become clear about a subject without thinking about it by explaining it in a short time.

In some cases, try replacing words with other words that mean the same thing or have a similar meaning, and see if you can get out of a bind. Perhaps another story is needed to clarify the explanation, but in this case, it is probably not necessary.

It is the combination of words that usually causes feeling stuck. The brain often experiences it as a flow when it starts again. When you change words or combinations of ideas, your mind activates, along with your brain.

Discovering yourself and using simple exercises will help you find out and develop your talents. It allows you to communicate more efficiently without making too much effort, without fear of failure or failure.

Fun Creative Writing Exercises

If you feel like you have a lot of pent-up creative energy in you, here are some tips. If you don’t do anything creative for a while you might tend to get kind of artistically frustrated. If you have a bigger project, occasionally sit down and do short creative writing activities just to release some of the pent up energy. Put something on a page practice, then go back to your bigger project.

For ideas look at random pictures, look at a Wikipedia page about the subject you are writing about. On the left there is a link called random article. You can click on it then write for five minutes about the article. You might use that short writing project to rewrite an important scene in your book from a different characters point of view. You can also write each chapter in multiple perspectives to choose the one that fits best for telling the story. you get to know each character a lot better and it makes the story more complex and deeper. Those different ideas just might shine through at different moments.

This next activity is really fun. It’s kind of like found treasure. Pick two different things you can print out like two different newspaper or magazine articles. Cut both of the articles in half and put the halves together. See what you can add or subtract to come up with a story you like. Just have fun.

Description overload can be a problem. Using too many adjectives doesn’t mean you are a good writer or a creative writer. Come up with a very bare-bones description. Look at it to see what might need to be added to have the story more clear to your reader.

Make your writing more exciting using the five senses. Describe what your characters smell, what they felt or, what they heard. How can you describe things in a way that’s interesting and makes the reader feel like they’re actually there. That seems like a very simple thing to do and a very like obvious thing, but it can be interesting. Taking a second to stop and think about what all of your senses are feeling. Take your main character and think about everything that he or she is experiencing in that moment.

Have someone give you three numbers. Go to one of your bookshelves. For the first number, count off how many books. For the second number use it for the page. for the third number find the sentence. Time yourself for five to ten minutes and use that sentence as the first sentence in your writing exercise. Keep writing from that point.

These are great creative writing exercises. You might find you are writing for a lot longer than you originally planned. Sometimes it even ends up being a short story and that is really exciting when that happens.

Creative Writing Exercises

Creative writing, like all language is a mode of communication. It is the highest form of self-expression, the ability to create and share a story is what makes the author an inspiration. Writers all tell stories. Every cultures is based on thousands of stories intrinsically woven together.

If you speak through your pen, which is what writing is and you put your voice onto paper no one else has to hear it until you are pleased with it. Your voice on paper is infinitely more sophisticated than anything you can possibly say because you’ve got the luxury of time.

You need time to explore your ideas, to find their voice on paper. It is important to get things wrong and not worry about it. Time for you to revel in your mistakes and learn from them. If you want to be a writer and I hope you do, then feel the response of enthusiastic laughter if you are trying to be funny. Be disgusted if you are trying to be disgusting.

You can easily break down stories into what is written and how is written. Begin with you, put loads of value on content, remain focused on the importance of content but bit by bit begin to pay equal emphasis to the structural side of things.

A great way to learn to write is to take a grade level in school and the list of words that they have to spell by the end of the year. This works particularly well if you want to write kids books. Put these words in a box. Every week pick out ten and write a story using these words.

Another fun way to write a story is to take something like chocolate and write down some of the words that describe the chocolate. Come up with a sentence the world’s never heard before.

Allow the joy of creativity to find your voice on paper. Give yourself the vital channel of self-expression that creative writing can give.

Five Creative Writing Exercises I Love

I like to sit down and do creative writing activities just to release some creative energy and to put something on the page. That is something that was and is always a lot of fun.

I like to look at random image generators or just look at random pictures. Sometimes you can go on photo and image sites that are free like pixabay.com

Say you decide you are going to write for five minutes about a picture. Click a few times to get a picture that kind of sparks something for you to start writing about. I would probably pick that one I know that would lead to a pretty good five minutes of writing.

This next one is something that I love to use in workshops.? It’s rewriting an important scene in a book from a different characters point of view. This is often what many writers do. They also write each chapter with multiple perspectives and choose the one that fits best for telling the story.

That is a ton of work but it’s also really cool because you get to know each character a lot better and it makes the story more complex and deeper.? It changes the perspective of how you see the story.

This next activity is really fun it’s kind of like found poetry. I first did this activity in a creative writing class.? Here’s how you do this activity: pick two different things you can draw from. People standing in a line at the airport. I started going a little crazy I was always a happy kid but the air mixes with fuel and burns to make hot gases, suddenly I couldn’t breathe. Learning to be a person again from inside the airport, we can see our plane take off again to fly to another destination.? People do all sorts of things on a plane when you’re five you feel like you love people you don’t even know. Can you see them? There’s a life jacket under every seat and once you do get through your airport experience you go on with life. With this activity sometimes you can? add things on. When you read it you might find how amazing the writing is that? came out of that. What ideas and what different interpretations you came? up with. I really like that activity.

I call description overload a problem. I saw with my students they thought using a lot of adjectives means they’re a good writer or a creative writer. I would suggest? a very bare-bones? scene like you walk up to an abandoned building, you stand and look at it. You walk in the front door, you turn to the right and see a locked door. You find a key on the floor and open it. What’s inside the room? What they would have to do is make their writing more exciting using the five senses.? I’d ask them to describe what they smelled, what they felt, what they heard, just anything you can think of regarding the scene. What I liked about this is how different each student’s scene ended up. It was interesting to see what kind of building they thought it was and what they thought it looked like. I still think about that when I’m writing. Instead of just using adjectives, how can I describe things in a way that’s interesting and makes the reader feel like they’re actually there. That seems like a very simple thing to do and a very obvious thing, but it can be interesting.

Taking a second to stop and think about what all of your senses are feeling.? Take your main character and think about everything that he or she’s experiencing in that moment.

My final one I know is on different creative writing activity lists, but I like having someone give me three numbers and then I go to a bookshelf at a library or a bookstore. Go to a library or bookstore and go to one of the isles. For the first number I count off how many books. If they give me a number like a twenty,? find that number book. Then the second number I use for the page and then the third number I use for the sentence. I generally like them to use one through twenty for the first and the third number and that’s pretty helpful or I could just do it myself and write down without thinking about the books, three numbers. Then I timed myself for like five to ten minutes and just use that sentence as my first sentence and then keep writing from that point so I’m going do that now. Ready? I’m going to go with 7, 47, 5.? Pick a shelf of books, count down to book 7. Turn to page 47 and count to sentence 5. Take that sentence and make it the start of whatever I was writing.? Then I would to write.? I like this activity again for the random aspect of it. Sometimes when you sit down to write, coming up with the beginning to get started is the hardest part. If you start with something like a sentence it’s generally easier to get going.

I hope you took something from this article. I just wanted to share some of my favorite creative writing exercises and generally what I do if I just want to sit down and do something quick without really working on a bigger project. In the past these activities have led me to write for a lot longer than I was originally planning.? Sometimes it even ends up being a short story and it is really exciting when that happens