Tag: Writing Exercises


  • Courtesy of McSweeny’s, here are thirteen writing prompts for all you writers out there: THIRTEEN WRITING PROMPTS. BYย DAN WIENCEK 1.ย Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the manโ€™s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument.2.ย Write a short scene set at a…

  • WRITING BY HAND

    “Dear Writer, Reconsider your hand. Reconsider writing by hand. There is a kind of story that comes from hand. Writing which is different from a tapping-on-a-keyboard-kind-of-story. For one thing, there is no delete button, making the experience more life like right away. You canโ€™t delete the things you feel unsure about and because of this,…

  • For the last few months I’ve been writing the rough draft of a novel I’m calling All Got to Climb Some Mountain, about a preacher in the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. I’ve never written a novel before, and the longest thing I’ve written before this is a story I started…