Friday Creative Writing

This week I’ll give you a couple of exercises.

1. The first is a title and end line and leave it up to you to see what you can come up with! You can write a poem or a story. If you get stuck just write for as long as you can, then take some scissors and cut it up! Move it around and play with the words. This is all practice and you never know what you can find when you play.

Your title : Fires everywhere.

End line: And I never knew that would be the start of a beautiful friendship.

2. Editing exercise. The voice.

Take a piece of your writing from the past few weeks. Read it back out loud – is there a way you could change the narrative voice? Who is the character telling the story? What if you wrote sentences that were shorter or added them together? How does that change it?

e.g.

She woke up on a Saturday morning, full of beans and ready to start the day. (The narrator sounds jolly and a little old fashioned.)

I woke up. It was Saturday. I jumped down the stairs two steps at a time. (This is more disjointed like a detective novel. But also uses show not tell to show the energy)

She jumped down stairs like a kangaroo on a holiday. (random similie!)

There are many different ways to write the same sentence and if you choose the right narrative voice for your story or even poem, then you’ll communicate it much more directly to your reader.

Happy writing!

Rachel x