What are the Best Writing Exercises?

[karenvieira]

I have the beginnings of an idea for what I want to do with these, which I would start focusing on in March. I'm thinking that I would start two threads in Writers Work (which is members' only), one for discussing the exercises, and regularly adding new ones, and one for people to post their actual efforts at them. Then we could do a raffle at, say, every 20 posts in the thread, and generate a random number and whoever has a post with that number wins a prize. I'm not sure what would be a good prize - I was thinking character art, but we'd need an artist to volunteer. So, if that's how it comes together, it would mean at 20 posts, we'd roll a random number (say, 9), and whoever has their exercise in post 9 wins a piece of character art from our volunteer artist. At 40 posts, we'd do it again, 21-40, and pick a new winner.



Does this sound kinda cool? Like I said, I won't do anything on this before March.



Regardless, in the meantime, keep posting your exercises.


Karen Vieira
Co Founder of themedwriters.com/

[pelwrath]

Karen,
I like the idea. Would the excercise change every 20 posts? What kind of comments/critique would be offered? The charcater art as a prize is different but unless you like poorly drawn stick people, I'm not the one to do it.

Pelwrath

[RAVENEYE]

Very sneaky. It almost sounds legit. And it probably is -- for Writers Work (wherever that is). Recruiting for a medical writing forum?    How many writing forums did you visit and copy/paste this in? Go write something instead of wasting your time invading forums like this.

However, it is a fun idea, and we may make use of it. Thanks!