START WITH 8 OF 8

Stack of Books

Pick a book from your shelf. Go to page eight and then to line eight. Copy the sentence that starts on that line to the top of your page and use that as the first line of your story.

SHOW, DON’T TELL

Creative writing exercise about describing a house without words that indicate feeling.

For movies show, don’t tell is common Knowledge, but the same goes for writing. You can just tell your reader that Alexander is feeling lonely and scared, but that won’t create the feeling of lonely and scared in the reader and won’t help us engage in the story

A RANDOM NON-STOP WRITE FEST

Set the timer and start writing

The first thing you must do is let go of the idea that you have to write beautifully. Somehow you have to connect to that crazy brain filled with stories, images, characters, and atmospheres. You will have to learn to tune in to your creativity and let it flow.