Actually, you didn’t ask for it, I forced it on you. Well, you did seem to be enthusiastic. So here they are, drumroll please, the first two pages of writing exercises:
Techniques for Generating Ideas and Getting Started
I know you are all rushing over to find out what the hell The DaVinci Device is, so go on over there and complete the exercise.
Charlotte Rains Dixon mentors creative writers from passionate to published. Charlotte is a free-lance journalist, ghostwriter, and author. She is Director Emeritus and a current mentor at the Writer's Loft, a certificate-writing program at Middle Tennessee State University. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Spalding University and is the author of a dozen books, including The Complete Guide to Writing Successful Fundraising Letters, and Beautiful America’s Oregon Coast. Her fiction has appeared in The Trunk, Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Nameless Grace, and Somerset Studios and her articles have been published in Vogue Knitting, the Oregonian, and Pology, to name a few. Her novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior, was published in 2013, and she is represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Literary. Learn about her annual writing workshops in Europe at letsgowrite.com, and visit her blog at www.charlotterainsdixon.com, where you can find all kinds of tips and techniques on writing and creativity.
Vic Grace
Thanks for starting this. I always thought I would like to take a writing course. I think I lean more to journalism rather than creative writing but I have bookmarked your two sites and will go back to them later today. I may even post some of my tries.
Charlotte
Hey Vic,
I’m so glad you like the writing exercises–please let me know if you do decide to post some. Also, my second blog is sort of, well, empty, at the moment, but I am hoping to have time to work more on it soon. I see it as being more focused on journalistic type writing and free-lancing, so stay tuned.
Charlotte