Creative Writing Exercises and Story Starters

By Trish Young

Creative Writing Exercises and Story Starters is for every day writers that would like to practice their skills at creative writing. It includes various writing exercises that help to build characters and how to put those characters into different settings. It also challenges writers go get out of their genre comfort zones. There are fifty one line story starters and various other story snippets to build off of.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trish Young
• Release date: Sep 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310234217

Trish Young

I love to write in my spare time. As seldom as that may be.

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Creative Writing

Exercises

&

Story Starters

By:Trish Young

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2014 Trish Young

Table of Contents:

Revealing Character Information

Idiosyncrasies

Stereotypes

Character Building

Story Starters

Synopsis Exercises

A note to the reader:

Hello,

My name is Trish. Thank you for your purchase and I hope you enjoy this guide. Please keep in mind that this is an informal set of tips and exercises to help every day writers expand their current horizons. I am not a professional writer, editor, or English major. So please forgive me if I miss any errors in this E-book. I wrote, proofread and edited it flying solo.

Just a couple tips before we begin...

Revealing Character Information

Think about when a character is being born. The things readers don't know about them can be just as important as the things that they do know. Keeping things to yourself can help to maintain the element of surprise. If you want to write a sequel or if you want a surprise twist in your story, don't give away suspense killing details. These are details that would keep your story from having the ability to be flexible.

For instance, if you have a main character that is guilty of this horrible crime. If you don't want people to figure it out, don't tell them their shoe size if the only evidence at the scene is a shoe print.

Another example includes details that may make your story too rigid. Such as the over use of,