Exercises in English
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I Remember
Sep, 2008This exercise is inspired by the Surrealist technique of “automatic writing” and the American author Joe Brainard’s memoir…
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In Praise of the Unlikely
Sep, 2008Praise poetry is almost ubiquitous in world literature. Another trajectory of poetry over time has been the inclusion…
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Action is Exciting!
Sep, 2008In countless fiction classes, you will be told again and again “Show, Don’t Tell.” While probably good advice,…
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Write Anywhere!
Sep, 2008The blank page is the perennial terror of the writer. Whether you write by hand, on a typewriter, or…
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Writing Narrative
Sep, 2008When people write fiction, whether in the form of the short story or in a longer work, the main…
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Writing Your Way In
Sep, 2008William Carlos Williams’s dictum about things being the life of poetry holds true in creative nonfiction as well. The…
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Disjunction & Surprise
Sep, 2008What happens in the first three lines of this familiar poem? In the first line the scene is set.…