Doing My Own Writing Exercises, Part 4 A List Of Lists

DOING MY OWN WRITING EXERCISES, PART 4: A LIST OF LISTS In an effort to really do the writing exercises I’ve recommended here (and elsewhere), I’ve already accomplished my listing of titles, writing to a picture, type of a failure on a dialog train, and writing to a random story immediate. Over the weekend, although, I added to my list of behavior prompts the category WRITING EXERCISE. Inspired by my on-line Writer’s Digest tutorial Six Strategies for Breaking Through Writer’s Block,this prompt will pop up on my calendar and get me working via some of these workouts. The category asks for an extra roll on the following subtable*: Having done the final two, let’s attempt the entire first six right now… List of 10 murder methods This is, after all, taken from Lester Dent’s Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot, which we use in my on-line Pulp Fiction Workshop (beginning up again in a couple days, by the best way). List of 10 character names Today, let’s go along with names for characters from a far-future area opera science fiction story. I made these up right off the highest of my head, but should Google them before I use them for anything. Chances are no less than certainly one of them reveals up in a e-book, film, or video game. I tried Nillarra and obtained a musician named Nil Lara, but no actual matches, so I’m good to go on that one, no less than. List of 10 writing prompts Keeping it within the Fantasy Author’s Handbook family, I’ll generate these utilizing my publish from a couple weeks ago: “The Five-Minute Story.” List of 10 plot points A plot point is, y’know, something that occurs. List of 10 attention-grabbing areas Places the place a plot point would possibly occur, a story would possibly begin or end, or in any other case be interesting to explore in our created-completely-on-the-fly area opera setting. List of 10 phrases you never use Then either think about using them, or be happy with your self that you don’t and never will! Yeah, I’m not going to start using any of those. Y ou may have seen that a number of the objects on the entire lists are obviously goofy, clearly right here for comedic effect. But does that make them bad? Who says a space opera story can’t have somewhat humor in it? And what would possibly begin as a joke might, if treated seriously, make for a perfectly exciting and attention-grabbing drama. But in the end, the purpose of these workout routines is to have enjoyable while getting your inventive juices flowing. If anybody this stuff lead to an fascinating story, this was a couple hours properly spent. Okay… your turn! â€"Philip Athans * Yes, I am a large nerd who makes actual choices in real life based mostly on d20 and d8 die rolls. Got an issue with that? Roll 1d6: About Philip Athans Fill in your particulars below or click on an icon to log in: