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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 31, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread. About today's writing prompt genre: About today's writing prompt genre: Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is...

3/30/15

Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 30, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Ekphrasis. About today's writing prompt genre: Ekphrasis is from Greek meaning the description of a work of art as a rhetorical device. That's actually pretty straight forward, but another way to look at it, is it's highfalutin fan fiction, usually about paintings or pieces of...

3/29/15

Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 29, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: The How-To. About today's writing prompt genre: Today we'll work with the good old 'how-to' genre. Write a 'list poem' (or a regular poem) or a piece of prose that explains various ways or steps in how-to do something. Today's how-to is... How to rid yourself of everything you...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 24, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints. About today's writing prompt genre: This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 20, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Wordbank. About today's writing prompt genre: For wordbank exercises take a few minutes to look through the following links which will have various lists of words. Pick out a dozen or so you like, whether for their uniqueness, their sound, even just their meaning, whatever the...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 18, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints. This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 15, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Wordbank. For wordbank exercises take a few minutes to look through the following links which will have various lists of words. Pick out a dozen or so you like, whether for their uniqueness, their sound, even just their meaning, whatever the reason, pick a bunch of words. If any...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 12, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints. This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 8, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread. Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original...

3/7/15

Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 7, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints. This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 5, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Narrative thread. Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise March 3, 2015

Daily Exercise Genre: Five Random Constraints. This is an exercise to make your brain work within a confined space. There will be a few constraints pressed upon your writing, some meant to help drive narrative, some meant to slow the process of the ever-flowing feed of words that stream through the...

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