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.

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Writing Assignment & Task 5: Create & Complete Your Own Writing Assignment

05.11.2012 writing

Today’s Writing Assignment and the 5th writing task for May is this: create your own Writing Assignment and complete it yourself. A good writing assignment follow the basic tasks that I’ve outlined this week: Identify a weakness or problem. Design an approach that will help strengthen the writer. Share the plan with others. If you’ve [...]

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Writing Assignment: Write A “What If?”

05.04.2012 Books and Literature

Life, history, is a continual stream of choices and events. History may not be just “one damn thing after another.” I think it’s closer to “the story of things that almost didn’t happen.” These things that happened and didn’t happen are an exceptionally fertile playground for writers. I’m a fan of science fiction and the [...]

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Writing Assignment: Reduce A Story To Just A Beginning, Middle, & End

04.27.2012 writing

Telling a story is both a natural human action and one of the most difficult of art forms to master. Oral storytelling is one of the earliest and most central of human experiences. Writing builds upon this experience. We sometimes think of telling and writing stories as merely a form of entertainment, but there’s much [...]

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Writing Assignment: Plant A Word Garden

04.20.2012 writing

It’s Spring. At least it’s Spring for everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. And that includes writers. As a writer it’s easy to become a hermit, a virtual cave dweller, to whom seasons come and go with only the slightest recognition. But Spring, Spring deserves your attention, your fealty. It’s a time to re-read “The Elements [...]

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Writing Assignment: Describe A Rain Shower

04.13.2012 writing

The rain is as variable and varied as anything can be. It can be as soft and welcoming as a cool drink or it can be torrential and hammering, stealing the breath from your throat. Rain is different from place to place, times of the day, or months of the year. It is infinitely changeable. [...]

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