Writing
exercise
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something to kick-start your writing?
The excerpt
below is directly from Be a Writer: Your Guide to the Writing Life!
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to help young writers get started.
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Pre Writing Exercise (Excerpt from: Be a Writer – Chapter 2)
There’s nothing more
intimidating than a blank page. The worst part is how silly most writers feel
being intimidated by it. The page just sits there, staring at us, and we stare
back, unable to do anything. There’s so much blank space to fill, and so little
inside us to fill it up with. It doesn’t seem fair, and it’s not. So every
writer needs to bring something in to help level the playing field, something
called pre-writing.
WHAT IS PRE-WRITING?
As its name implies, pre-writing
is something you do before you start writing to make the process easier and the
quality of your writing better. For example, we all do a little bit of thinking
before we write — or at least we should. Pre-writing is a way to focus our
thoughts, break through the pain of writer’s block and get your writing
exercise.
Maybe we don’t have a topic.
Even if we do, we might not know exactly what we want to say about it. The fun
of pre-writing is that it doesn’t matter whether we know what we’re doing or
not. Pre-writing is a time we can use to experiment, to jot down ideas, to try
new things without having to try very hard, to take a little time to gather our
thoughts, and to choose a direction before we start drafting.
PRE-WRITING EXERCISE
You can do just about anything
you want. You can draw. You can make notes. You can scribble random thoughts.
Anything that will help you draft more effectively qualifies as pre-writing.
I’ll give you some special pre-writing strategies in the next few sections.
The great thing about
pre-writing is that it doesn’t really matter what you do, as long as it involves
turning on your brain and thinking about your topic. Then, just write down
whatever pops into your head. As you begin to put ideas on the page, you may
start to see how you can organize them. Take your time. There’s no rush. The
time you spend pre-writing is time well spent.
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