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what: Undercurrents Anthology
speculative fiction/poetry
who: Cape Breton Island writers
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PCQuills - a writing exercise
February 11, 2007 |
[-exercise, writing-]
If you’re having trouble getting started in fiction or need a helpful exercise, try this:
ONE TRUE MEMORY/TWO LIES
- Choose one real childhood memory.
- Make up a lie that relates to that true incident.
- If you think of them as lies instead of ‘using your imagination’ it won’t throw you into a creative crisis of confidence.
Lie innocently … as a child might. - Then make up one more lie, this one more brazen. Have fun with it!
- Write for 20 - 30 minutes about these three and see what happens. Try this every day for a week without looking back at what you’ve written. Next week you can evaluate if you have anything that you’d like to expand upon but as a beginning, keep it in the realm of - you guessed it - practice
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TRIGGERS
Is your MIND BLANK? Suddenly you can’t think of anything that happened to you in your childhood?
Here are some triggers:
- * source of heat
- * what we ate on Sundays
- * report cards/grades
Originally published in the July 2005 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: space and spaces
also posted in: Writing - technique, craft, tips , Creative un-Blockers , How-to ... , Inspiration , Practice & Practices , The Original PCQ, 05-06 , Craft
tags: child, childhood, creation, creative, exercise, false, fiction, fun, help, hint, innocent, lie, memories, memory, pen, trick, true, write, writing, written
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