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. A fresh Writing Assignment published every Friday.

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Writing Assignment: Write About Your Plans For Tomorrow

05.17.2013 writing

Tomorrow holds such promise. And yet, if we’re honest, tomorrow will probably be much like yesterday. There’s a great focus online about productivity and “getting things done.” It’s easy to think that you can control what you do today and tomorrow and beyond by making lists, plans, and endless to-dos. If you discover the right [...]

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Writing Assignment: Writing About Three Objects

05.10.2013 writing

Writing a description of a single object is always a good exercise. If you add another thing, write about two objects, you can compare and contrast them. Add a third and you have a set and the possibilities multiply. The set is often more interesting than the objects contained in the set. Sets go beyond [...]

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Writing Assignment: Five Words

05.03.2013 Writing Assignments

Some writers struggle with a simple issue: What should I write about? The answer to that question is simple: anything. Just write about anything. To practice writing and develop the skills you’ll need, you need to write and write frequently, daily if at all possible. It doesn’t really matter what you write about. Just write. [...]

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Writing Assignment: Describe the Taste of Water

04.26.2013 Writing Assignments

Mastering description is one of the most difficult writing skills and it must be continually reinforced and relearned. The skilled writer can weave descriptions of objects, place, even people into a story in such a way that the reader is never removed from the narrative stream. Others may offer descriptions of such beauty that it [...]

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Writing Assignment: Fifty Words

04.19.2013 Writing Assignments

If your goal is to become a better writer, you need to practice. Here’s your writing assignment for today: describe how you feel at this moment in fifty words, no more, no less. Writing is a craft. Although not everyone can write beautifully, almost anyone can write well if they work at the craft of [...]

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