WARMING UP: TEN EXERCISES FOR FICTION WRITERS

Written by Dr. Erika Dreifus


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3. Make lists ofrepparttar character's "favorites": books, movies, foods, etc. Be specific. 4. What doesrepparttar 129095 character do on a typical Wednesday? A Sunday? Provide a sample datebook entry if you wish (or ifrepparttar 129096 character would keep a datebook!). 5. Who isrepparttar 129097 love of this character's life? 6. Have someone else propose a toast in this character's honor. 7. What languages doesrepparttar 129098 character speak, read, or write? Write a scene in which s/he overhears a conversation in an unfamiliar language. 8. Describe an illnessrepparttar 129099 character (or someone close torepparttar 129100 character) has suffered. 9. How would this character spend an ideal vacation? (Perhaps sketch out an itinerary.) 10. What one question is this character most afraid of being asked—and how would s/he answer it?

Even ifrepparttar 129101 particular scenes or details that first emerge don't seem relevant or don't survive intorepparttar 129102 story or novel manuscript, you won't have misspent your time. Such information deepens your knowledge of your character(s), which can lead to richer writing later on. And you've been writing, rather than confronting that empty screen or page. Warm-ups work in multiple ways for writers, too.

© Copyright 2004 Erika Dreifus. All rights reserved. Article reprint permission is granted provided thatrepparttar 129103 entire article--includingrepparttar 129104 "Aboutrepparttar 129105 Author" information--remains intact and unaltered. Please send a copy ofrepparttar 129106 reprint to erikadrei@yahoo.com .

Dr. Erika Dreifus is a writer and writing instructor in Massachusetts. She edits the free monthly newsletter, "The Practicing Writer," and is the author of "The Practicing Writer's Primer on Low-Residency MFA Programs" and "The Practicing Writer's Directory of Paying Short Story Markets." Visit her website at http://www.practicing-writer.com .


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