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Ignite the Creative Writing Process
Most writers at some point will come face to face with their nemesis: the dreaded blank page. The exercises below, which tap memory, observation, and imagination, aim to help you push past that daunting void and get the words flowing.
Recommended Creative Writing 鈥淛ump Start鈥 Exercises
Recommended Resources
Bernays, Anne, and Pamela Painter.听What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. College Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.
Kowitt, Steve.听In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet鈥檚 Portable Workshop. Gardiner: Tilbury, 1995.
Lamott, Anne.聽Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor, 1994.
Scofield, Sandra.听The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Stern, Jerome.聽Making Shapely Fiction. New York: Laurel, 1991.
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