Author: Stephen Lloyd Webber
Freewriting Exercise: Write Using Hypotaxis / Parataxis
Writers are fortunate to have all sorts of different descriptive tools to label the things we do and how we use language to give shape to our thoughts and feelings. This article introduces a couple of useful distinctions. They sound more complicated than they really are. They sound complicated because they are Greek. They sound… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Write Using Hypotaxis / Parataxis
Freewriting Exercise: Explore Transitional Words and Phrases
What is a transition? Transitional words and phrases are like little bits of logical padding that show how different subjects are connected. Examples of transitional words: in essence in conclusion meanwhile thus notwithstanding subsequently for instance therefore in particular in truth as a result likewise . . .plus a zillion more. You get the idea.… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Explore Transitional Words and Phrases
Freewriting Exercise: Douse Your Inner Critic with the Flow of Poetic Imagery
A poem can take any form. It can rhyme. It can be short or long. Poetry uses language in ways that ordinary purposeful speech never does. One of the fundamentals of poetry (and language in general) is the use of analogy. One thing is like another thing. With skill, analogy can nimbly convey the deepest… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Douse Your Inner Critic with the Flow of Poetic Imagery
Freewriting Exercise – Learn From Your Writer’s Block
This exercise is broken into a variety of subcomponents that are catered to specific ways of applying freewriting as a means of learning from your writer’s block. Your writer’s block is not quite the same as someone else’s writer’s block. It also might not be as different or as unique as you think. Why learn… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise – Learn From Your Writer’s Block