Creative Writing Tips & Exercises
Putting my professor hat on for a moment. Here are some of the creative writing tips and exercises I give to my college students.
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Writing Exercise: Sound Alone
Here I go putting on my professor hat again. Day job and all that. This particular exercise evolved from a recent story I wrote that is currently under review with my writing consortium. Enjoy.
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Writing Exercise: Writing Around the Edges
As many of you already know, I’m an English professor. I’ve been at this since 2016, and over that time, I’ve built up a slew of my own writing exercises. As promised in my newsletter signup, I’m going to start revealing some of these, along with a few tips, in order to show my other literary side. The exercise below is one of my favorites in that it helps you shift the focus of your writing away from the character…