Writing Exercises: From the Blank Page to Everyday Practice

Writing Exercises: From the Blank Page to Everyday Practice

“Thank you for coming this far and for taking this course! I hope the exercises help you stay creative and encourage you to write a little bit every day. Before saying goodbye, I want to give you some brief tips to make the most of the course and develop your project: • Choose a notebook with few pages (36 is a good number) and with which you feel comfortable. It has to make you want to fill it! • Carry the notebook with you for a week and take advantage of every free moment to do some exercise (or, better yet, block time on your calendar for that). 15 minutes a day is more than enough to start this workout. • Every time you have an idea of something to write, jot it down in your notebook, even if it's a sentence or something very short. The important thing is that you catch it so you can develop it later or to have an initial trigger every time you want to sit down to write. • Use the morning or evening to document moments in your everyday life. Try to ritualize it. For example, write down what you remember from the day before while you eat breakfast or write down what you don't want to forget about the day before you go to sleep. • Use timed writing, it's a magic tool and a great anti-block method. Once the timer is running, don't waste time thinking about how to start, don't censor yourself, let yourself be carried away by what comes out (there will always be time to correct later) and, above all, have fun! Remember that all the exercises in the final project are not designed to make perfect texts, but to allow the text to exist. Finally, we are going to review the key phases of the project; in this case the different exercises that we have been doing during the course. It would be great if you briefly explained what you have done in each of them and accompany the explanation with a photograph of the text or the written text itself. Exercises to generate ideas In this lesson we did three different exercises to generate writing ideas: "texts I would like to write", "what if...?" and "list of nouns".

Exercises to document everyday life Next, we did several exercises to record in your notebook things that catch your attention in your day to day to use them as ideas for your texts. We did three exercises: "seven things that caught my attention", "sensory postcards" and "you don't know what happened". Timed Write Then it was time to tick down the clock with timed writing exercises. We did three exercises: "writing to music", "crazy scenes" and "conspiracy, mystery and scandal". Triggers and setpoints Finally, I proposed three more exercises with instructions to continue practicing timed writing: "write from an image", "random Wikipedia article" and "multiverses or invisible cities". Now share your final project to the forum by clicking on "Create your project". Before saying goodbye, I also invite you to comment on the work of your colleagues and to interact with the group. If you have doubts, you can also leave them in the forum and I will answer you as soon as I can. See you on the forum!”

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“Final project Thank you for having come this far and for having taken this course. I hope the exercises keep you creatively fit. and encourage you to write even for a little while every day. Remember that the objective of these exercises It is not making finished or perfect texts, but to allow the story to come out, for the text to exist to be able to continue working on them or not. When you do timed writing exercises, As long as the timer is ticking, don't censor yourself. I allowed what needs to come out to come out. Let yourself be carried away by your intuition. There is nothing better...”

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