How to Write

Anything could happen.  Spend 5-10 minutes on this activity.  Pick up a pen, pencil or marker and get some paper or sit at the keyboard - and get ready to write non-stop: don't edit or second guess yourself.  Just write.  Ready?

 

Now, what happens after this?

 

      Walking through the doorway...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That was freewriting.  I wonder what you wrote.  The next bit is to see what you liked and what worked out of that scribble and rewrite it.  If you enjoyed freewriting, you could also google "creative writing exercises" or try a writing book; here are some with many writing exercises:

 

Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction

Sherry Ellis (editor), Now Write

Brian Kiteley, The 3 o'clock Epiphany

 

 

                            Illustration by Tom Gauld