Write Like An Author
We asked our Featured Author to set a writing exercise to help budding authors to write like a professional author.
This month, our Featured Author Fred Covins has set a writing assignment to inspire you and to develop your creative writing techniques.
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Exercise:
Get a chair, a notebook and a pen. Sit yourself by a window and look out. Write down everything you can see: people, birds, animals, trees, plants, flowers and buildings. Now, using these things, write a story giving voices even to the non-humans, for instance, a tree - "Hey! There's a kid looking at me from that window, I think he's writing something, come on branches make us look interesting. Now what's the matter with him, he's stopped writing and staring open-mouthed. Wave to him twiglets, oops! Now what's happened to him, he's disappeared...no...he's back again, I think he fell off his chair when you waved!"
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Send us your best writing examples for this writing exercise to us by e-mail. We will display the finest selection in our Budding Author’s Gallery. Remember to include your name, address and age. Check out our guidelines for more info on submitting.
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