Category: writing exercise

• Breaking the Writer’s Block

  Three o’clock in the morning, and I’ve been staring at the monitor for hours, unable to get anything coherent written. Banging my head on the desk doesn’t help, although it does dislodge a stack of papers exposing a CD I’ve been missing for months. I pop the CD into the player and wait for inspiration. […]

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  December 20, 2009

  Dellani Oakes, Uncategorized, writer’s block, writing exercise

  writer’s block

• Driving with the Top Down

  I belong to a small, informal writer’s group which meets every Wednesday.  We have a weekly writing prompt and the one for yesterday was ‘open windows’.  Since spring is in the air, I got to thinking about some of the crazy stuff we did as kids to celebrate spring.  Some of the following is true, […]

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  March 12, 2009

  Dellani Oakes, writing exercise

  1976, Dellani Oakes, Nebraska, Second Wind, Second Wind Publishing, spring, writing exercise

• To Outline or Not to Outline?

  I continue to be amazed by people who make outlines of their stories, know where the story line is going and most of all know the ending before even writing the book. Who are these godlike folk and why am I not like them? I am a very off the cuff writer, I don’t know […]

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  January 20, 2009

  Dellani Oakes, novel writing, outline, outlining, people who love to read, people who love to write, writing, writing exercise, writing fiction, writing preparation

• Breaking the Writer’s Block

  Three o’clock in the morning, and I’ve been staring at the monitor for hours, unable to get anything coherent written. Banging my head on the desk doesn’t help, although it does dislodge a stack of papers exposing a CD I’ve been missing for months. I pop the CD into the player and wait for inspiration. […]

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  October 30, 2008

  fiction, writer’s block, writing, writing exercise, writing fiction