The Creative Writer's Workbook 2

By Jason Burchard

This Ebook edition of The Creative Writer's Workbook includes dozens of Idea Generators, Worksheets, Quizzes, Games & More that will get you writing and creating ideas and stories in no time! If you want to be more creative and productive with your writing, come up with ideas quicker than ever or need help in specific areas such as naming characters-- The Creative Writer's Workbook can help!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387666393

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The Creative Writer’s Workbook 2

By Jason Burchard

Copyright  2022 – Jason Burchard and Burchard Creative

Published 2022 by author via www.Lulu.com

ISBN 978-1-387-66639-3 Imprint: Lulu.com

First Ebook Edition

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INTRODUCTION

Hello Friends and Readers,

If this is your first Burchard Creative Workbook, then Welcome! If it’s not your first, then, Thanks so much! It took a few years to update The Creative Writer’s Workbook and release #2, but it’s finally here. Hope you enjoy it with its new pages and updates, and the fancy new cover. I hope this new version helps to find many new writers to help create stories and get their ideas down and into the world.

No matter if it’s your first time or not buying this workbook, you bought it to write a story, a novel, or something, right? You don’t need to read a novel or a heap of how-to books to get started. You need to just write—to get your ideas out and write. One of my strongpoints is coming up with ideas and not dwelling on spelling/grammar too much. I just write. I recommend you do the same thing. Don’t let spelling/grammar slow you down from getting your ideas out. Don’t let your naysayers stifle your creativity. Write. Even if it seems like crap. Write it. Rewrite it. Fix it. Make it right. There’s no reason to be picky in the beginning or at all. Write your story and let the characters take control. This workbook will help you do just that. Then, after you’ve got something of substance, you and/or your editors can fix all the details later.

This book is meant to be filled out, like a grade school type workbook. However, if you are reading the e-book version you can still use this workbook by simply writing your answers on blank paper, or right into a document on your computer—which will save you time when you want to import your ideas into your book files. I recommend having both print and e-book versions so you can have them with you and available at nearly any time and help you depending on your writing mood. Another very important note, feel free to make copies for yourself of any of the pages before you start filling them out. Many of the pages have multiple copies included here. Some don’t. But, before you fill out your last copy, make a copy. I’d love for you to buy lots of copies but I also want you to be productive with what you’ve already purchased, and to spread the word to your friends. Thank you in advance for spreading the word.

Thanks and Enjoy!

Jason Burchard

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PO BOX 75

Port Salerno, FL 34992

WRITING CHEATSHEET

SHOW, DON’T TELL!      It’s so important to show a story, and not just tell a story. Put the reader in the story. Make them imagine the scene, wonder what someone’s thinking and wonder what will happen.

Adverbs!      Try not to use too many adverbs-- especially with dialogue! the teacher said sternly.

Run-on.       It is a sentence so long that there should be a new sentence or paragraph.

Spelling            There are spell-checkers available on your phone, computer and other devices. Proofreaders catch most misspellings, but use your resources to check words you’re unsure about.

Oxymoron      A pairing of words in a phrase that contradict each other. (Ex: Civil War or living-dead)

Palindrome      A word or phrase that is spelled the same forward or backwards (Ex: racecar)

Onomatopoeia      A word that is an interpretation of a sound. (Ex: buzz, boom or hiss)

Synonym            A word that means the same / Antonym A word that means the opposite

Metaphor      To compare one thing to another, clearly or hidden. (Ex: He was a ticking time bomb)

Simile            Like a metaphor, but compares using like or as. (Ex: She was cute as a penguin)

POINT OF VIEW

First Person      A character tells the story using I, We, Me, My, Ours (Ex: Autobiographies)

Second Person      The writer addresses the reader using You, Yours. (Ex: Choose Your Own Adventure)

Third Person      A narrator tells the story indirectly using He, She, It, They, Him, Her, Their

Objective – Narrator tells the story unbiased as a journalist would

Subjective – Narrator tells the story with knowledge of a character(s) thought or feelings

Omniscient – The all-seeing, all-knowing narrator

OFTEN MIXED WORDS (V.=Verb, N.=Noun, Adj.=Adjective, Adv.= Adverb, P.=Preposition)

Accept/Except – Accept =  V., politely confirm; Except = P., all ‘but’ an exception

EXAMPLE: All her friends were accepted to the University, except Nicole.

Affect/Effect – Affect =  V., to change someone/thing; Effect = N., the result of change

EXAMPLE: The turtles were affected by the radiation, and drastic mutations were the noted effects.

Breath/Breathe – Breath = N., what comes out of your mouth; Breathe= V., the action of ‘breathing’

EXAMPLE: I noticed my jogging partner had morning breath, and the more we ran, the more he would breathe that foul smell in my direction.

Foul/Fowl – Foul = Adj., bad or astray; Fowl= N., generic term for birds, specifically hunted birds

EXAMPLE: The baseball player hit a foul ball that just missed that fowl bird.

Further/Farther – Further = Adv., making progress; Farther = Adv., a physical distance

EXAMPLE: She wants to further her education, but also wants something farther away from her parents.

Its/It’s – Its = Plural Possessive Pronoun; It’s = contraction of ‘it’ and ‘is’

EXAMPLE: The big dog broke its chain, and it’s