Writing Assignments – The Book

If you want to improve your writing, make writing practice fun and effective, then I think you’ll enjoy my book Writing Assignments.

You can purchase the paperback edition that is designed with special Assignment Space here. Or you can get it for the Amazon Kindle or Apple iBooks.

Writing Assignment: Make Up A Word And Use It Correctly

02.03.2012 writing

Words are interesting things. Some people call them the atoms of speech and thought. I’m not so sure about that. I think of them more as the bricks, building materials. I see words as rough, big things, not tiny, elemental particles. We humans have a built-in ability to acquire language and to use it in [...]

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Writing Assignment: Rewrite Installation Instructions

01.27.2012 writing

The other day I set myself the task of assembling a new piece of furniture. I spent several minutes in quiet meditation before I started, knowing that I had a frustrating job in front of me. Not the job of putting the cabinet together. No, that wouldn’t be a problem. What typically is the nightmare [...]

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Writing Assignment: Home Cooking

01.20.2012 Food and Cooking

Food. Wonderful meals. Awful meals. Memorable meals stick with us, long after digestion or indigestion have passed. Food has a particular hold on memory. And food from your childhood has a particularly strong hold. Try this the next time you’re in a group of strangers: ask about the food they grew up with. You’re likely [...]

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Writing Assignment: Defend Your Favorite Album

01.13.2012 Listening

Your favorite band sucks. Music can be a way of defining your personality or of including yourself in a larger group. But start talking about music and what you’ll also quickly discover is that others may dismiss or attack your musical loves. People will judge you based upon your musical choices. Don’t worry, I won’t. [...]

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Writing Assignment: Set A Deadline

01.06.2012 writing

The deadline is that dreaded thing that convinces most people that they hate writing. It probably starts at school. You have an assignment due on Friday morning and if you don’t have it completed, you’ll fail the class. So many of us focus on the penalty and the consequences that we can’t focus on the [...]

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