Creative Writing Exercises

By Annûniel · Dec 16, 2010 · 867 · 2
  1. Ever have one of those moments when a particular piece of writing seems daunting and overwhelming? That the plot just doesn't flow right and you're having trouble seeing how it comes together? Yeah, I've been having one of those moments for a long time. The trick is snapping out of it, with which I haven't had much luck.

    Been meaning to try and find some simple creative writing exercises to get the flow going again. Haven't really had a lot of luck with that either. I used to do some text based RPing (more collective storytelling with others than D&D type stuffs), but I quit because I didn't have the time for it and it was draining my creativity to the point where I ran out of energy when it came to book writing. Still, maybe I should pick it back up... Or maybe do some short story fanfiction... Just something to keep my creativity active and my writing dust-free.

    I need to find something soon...

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  1. Corbyn
    I have a book called 3 am epiphany that has a lot of exercises in it, however I've never had to crack the cover and actually use any.

    What I do is just pick up an online random word generator and get three random words from it. Then write about those words. It doesn't have to be a great work of fiction or even remotely anything. I posted a short story on my blog that I did in that manner.

    Hope this helps dust things off for you.
    Corbyn, Dec 16, 2010
  2. Eunoia
    Like Corbyn suggested, picking three words radnomly - either from a book, online or whatever - can help give you a focus to write something.
    If you have other people to help, you could do this thing where you fold down paper and pass it around and you each write down three characters and a setting and a problem to overcome. Like you all write down a character A and then fold and pass the paper along and then you all write down character B etc. It's a fun way to write some interesting stories.
    Or you could take a line from a book and write a story from there.
    There are lots of way to get the flow back, and keep creativity active. The main thing is to just keep writing.
    Eunoia, Dec 17, 2010
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