Do You Remember Creating Writing Exercises?
A lot of people's experiences of creative writing exercises were back in secondary school English classes; where their teacher would let them know where to begin and maybe follow up with an occasional prompt or two. The structure for these exercises is frequently, "Say this, now make something up, now say that"
It didn't simply not teach you anything, it actually confined your creativity while doing so - the least desirable of both worlds.
Would it be any wonder then that a lot of writers nowadays wouldn't give creative writing exercises the time of day? These folks were bored senseless by them!
And this is definitely unlucky, mainly because these exercises can really deliver numerous advantages, and provide you with the knowhow to increase your writing skills dramatically - when they're done the right way.
In reality, the way that your highschool teacher tried to direct you through those exercises was just plain uninspiring (except maybe for those of you that had the rare fortune of a quality teacher). They might well have been just awaiting the bell to ring so that they could have another nap in the teachers' lounge.
So how should they be performed?
Well, for starters, they require direction and purpose. The goal of your highschool exercises was to write a story. However , I believe we can recognize that to create a story, one dosen't really require an exercise.
The aim of this type of exercise therefore, ought to be to practice a very specific writing skill in a way that puts strain on that skill and pushes you to improve it.
It is by doing this that you are able focus on one of your writing weaknesses, and then another, then another, and so on and so forth, having the all round impact of enhancing the quality of your writing piece by piece, skill by skill - and not just writing a story in the interest of writing a story.
Now we know the benefits. However, you could be thinking, "excellent, but that still does not seem like a great deal of fun."
And yet once again, it most likely is more about the way your old high school teacher presented them back in the day. Creative writing exercises really can be fun and drastically improve your writing simultaneously.
Something that many of us resented about them was the limitations put on their creativity by these kinds of exercises, when you are told what and how to write. What quality exercises try to accomplish however, is to leverage and empower your creativity to solve a problem. You've still got guidelines, but those guidelines are there to push you to adapt, and not just to conform.
It didn't simply not teach you anything, it actually confined your creativity while doing so - the least desirable of both worlds.
Would it be any wonder then that a lot of writers nowadays wouldn't give creative writing exercises the time of day? These folks were bored senseless by them!
And this is definitely unlucky, mainly because these exercises can really deliver numerous advantages, and provide you with the knowhow to increase your writing skills dramatically - when they're done the right way.
In reality, the way that your highschool teacher tried to direct you through those exercises was just plain uninspiring (except maybe for those of you that had the rare fortune of a quality teacher). They might well have been just awaiting the bell to ring so that they could have another nap in the teachers' lounge.
So how should they be performed?
Well, for starters, they require direction and purpose. The goal of your highschool exercises was to write a story. However , I believe we can recognize that to create a story, one dosen't really require an exercise.
The aim of this type of exercise therefore, ought to be to practice a very specific writing skill in a way that puts strain on that skill and pushes you to improve it.
It is by doing this that you are able focus on one of your writing weaknesses, and then another, then another, and so on and so forth, having the all round impact of enhancing the quality of your writing piece by piece, skill by skill - and not just writing a story in the interest of writing a story.
Now we know the benefits. However, you could be thinking, "excellent, but that still does not seem like a great deal of fun."
And yet once again, it most likely is more about the way your old high school teacher presented them back in the day. Creative writing exercises really can be fun and drastically improve your writing simultaneously.
Something that many of us resented about them was the limitations put on their creativity by these kinds of exercises, when you are told what and how to write. What quality exercises try to accomplish however, is to leverage and empower your creativity to solve a problem. You've still got guidelines, but those guidelines are there to push you to adapt, and not just to conform.
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