Tag: writing exercise

• 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, […]

  dellanioakes

  March 12, 2009

  Dellani Oakes, writing exercise

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

• Creating a Character Sketch

  Writers new and old sometimes have trouble finding a place to start. We are full of all kinds of ideas, and jot them down in an effort to keep track of them. Getting these ideas into a cohesive whole can be trying. As an A.P. English teacher, I had to take high school students into […]

  dellanioakes

  November 21, 2008

  character, character sketch, creating character, fiction, Second Wind, writing, writing fiction

  character creation, character sketch, characters, novel writing, writing, writing exercise, writing novels