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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 30, 2015

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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 May 29, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Ekphrasis. 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,...

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Alex Lemon talks about his poet's notebook at Profane

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Alex Lemon is a tremendous poet, memoirist and just a general good writer. I was first drawn to his work in an 'introducing' feature in Pleaides (25:1), and ever since have always gotten a little excited when I see his...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 23, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Ekphrasis. OK, you got me, that's RyneSandberg not Carl Sandburg,but Carl's first book of poemswas called "Chicago Poems"so the Cubs jersey is fitting. About today's writing prompt genre: Ekphrasis...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 20, 2015

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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 May 17, 2015

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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 words that you like, whether you are drawn to them for their uniqueness, their sound, their meaning, whatever the reason, pick...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 16, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Title Mania! About today's writing prompt genre: Instead of just using a random generator, for today's exercise I will offer up six titles. Pick the title that appeals the most to you and run with it. If you want to leave your choice up to chance use this random number generator....

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 15, 2015

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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 May 12, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Title Mania! About today's writing prompt genre: Instead of just using a random generator, for today's exercise I will offer up six titles. Pick the title that appeals the most to you and run with it. If you want to leave your choice up to chance use this random number generator....

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 9, 2015

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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 May 7, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Title Mania! About today's writing prompt genre: Instead of just using a random generator, for today's exercise I will offer up six titles. Pick the title that appeals the most to you and run with it. If you want to leave your choice up to chance use this random number generator....

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 5, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Random Generation. Random Generation exercises allow computers to help you find your prompt, you know, instead of visiting this website via messenger pigeon and cranking out the pages with your mechanical typewriter. Write a piece or fragment that utilizes the following random...

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Notebooking Daily Writing Exercise May 4, 2015

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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 May 3, 2015

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Daily Exercise Genre: Title Mania! About today's writing prompt genre: Instead of just using a random generator, for today's exercise I will offer up six titles. Pick the title that appeals the most to you and run with it. If you want to leave your choice up to chance use this random number generator....

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