List of Interactive Quizzes The quizzes with a magenta marble are also listed within the section or digital handout to which they apply. The twenty-one quizzes with a green marble and designated "Practice" have been adapted from the instructor's manual and other ancillary materials accompanying Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide. The seventeen quizzes with a gold marble were written by the English faculty at an estimable midwestern university and are used here with the permission of that department. The ten quizzes with a red marble were prepared by students in Professor Karyn Hollis's Tutor Training course at Villanova University. Clicking on the NUMBER immediately before the quiz's name will take you to the section of the Guide pertaining to the grammatical issue(s) addressed in that quiz. Clicking on the Guide's logo at the top of a quiz-page will bring you back to this page.
creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers Writing Prompts 101 By Simon Kewin Even if you are not a professional writer you probably already heard about writing prompts. They represent a very effective tool for any writing project, so it’s a good idea to know how to use them. What Is A Writing Prompt? If you’re a fiction writer, you may want to consider using writing prompts to kick-start your creativity. You may just come up with rough, disjointed notes or you may end up with something more polished and complete, a scene or even a complete story. Here are four good reasons for writing to prompts : Sometimes it’s hard to start writing when faced with a blank page. Examples of Writing Prompts The following are twenty writing prompts that you could use to spark your imagination. It was the first snowfall of the year. Where To Find Writing Prompts Online The internet is a wonderful source of writing prompts. There are also numerous blogs that offer a regular writing prompt to inspire you and where you can, if you wish, post what you’ve written.
Story Starters & Idea Generators One of the best ways to break through writer's block or stretch your writing skills is to pick a story starter and just start writing. Suggestions on how to use each generator are included with the generator. Caveat: There's always a temptation to keep looking for the "perfect" idea, but then you need to ask yourself...are you really just trying to avoid writing? Problem: You can't get a story started Solution: Archetype's Plot Scenario Generator What it is: This generator provides you with the event that gets the story rolling and a secondary conflict to keep you going! Problem: Your characters lack depth Solution: Archetype's Character Generator What it is: A quick character sketch filled with the kinds of little details that makes stories engaging: character gender, cardinal traits, weaknesses, and most prized possession. Problem: Your characters don't feel like "real" people Solution: Archetype's Everyday Problems Generator Looking for something you don't see? Getting Yourself Started
Toy Shed Nightmare, Rape Poem I still remember the dark dirty floor of the toy shed in the backyard. The pain as every piece of clothing I had onwas getting torn off in fast motions. The hand covering mymouth as I screamed for someone to help me. The help never came. As I screamed with the sweaty hand over my mouth I thought that this was it, I was going to die. I was only six years old, all my hopes and dreams were over, nothing pursued. The pain was something I'd never felt before, it wasn't a cut nor a scrap. When really it was a fourteen year old boy crushing me as he forced his way into my innocence. At that moment I prayed that I would die. To this day there isn't a moment that goes by that I don't think about that day in the toy shed. No one should feel that way.
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25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. It is also a primary means for documenting, communicating, and refining our ideas. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
People: Anis Mojgani. « A Cynical Optimist a7ibak ya3ammi. :')Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is a spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani is a Bahá’í.Mojgani has been characterized as “geek genius” with “fiercely hopeful word arias”. Mojgani was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, moved to Georgia and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Comic Book art and an Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts. Mojgani is able to earn an income as a touring poet.Read more on Wiki. I first started listening to Anis (yeah I call him Anis, we are best friends now..(in my head)) when Noura came over and went all dramatic on how much I NEED to check him out; Noura gets dramatic at good shit, so Kudos to the lovely Noura. I’ve always loved def poetry, I didn’t really have a ‘favorite’ poet, so you do realize what this has done to me. Note that there will be other Anis Mojgani posts. Like this: Like Loading...
The Publishing Process in GIF Form At first you're thinking of writing a novel and you're all... But then you have an idea! And you go... But then you hit page 50 and you're all.... And then you hit page 75 and you're all... But you power through!! And then you're finished!!! Only then find out you have to start querying agents. So you write your query letter... You obsess over it... And then you send it out to agents and you're all... Then a couple of days go by and you're all... And... And... But then you hear from your first agent!! And it's a rejection. Then you get a few more and it's more like... But then! But you don't want your agent to think you're crazy so instead you're like... And you love your agent! But instead you go... And then it's time to submit to publishers. Then the editors start saying.... And your inbox starts looking like... And you're all... But then your phone says your agent is calling. But instead it's more like... And it's an offer! And then you go celebrate with your friends and they're all...
i'm here snow came down in austin today. it was almost seventy on sunday. sarah morgan visited this weekend. it was nice. sunday night was gabrielle's memorial. it filled me with sadness. it snowed today in austin. this evening i found hte track from balmorhea i heard on the radio the other day, to which i didnt know the name. we tried to go see them play in a church on friday night. the place was full and they had to cut off admittance somewhere so they stopped letting people in with the couple right before us. we walked all over downtown instead. got frozen yogurt, at this place that lets you pour your own, from 10 or twelve different flavors and you can mix and match and load up your own toppings, as many as you want. on saturday we watched the hurt locker. it was really good. one of the final scenes kinda fucked me up. it didnt catch up to me until the next night. it was the locks on the cage, closed over the iraqi man's chest. today is chris' birthday. it has been eleven i believe for us.