This Week's IWW Practice Exercise
Prepared by: Charles Hightower
Posted on: Sunday, 19 April 2009
Posted on: Sunday, 19 April 2009
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Exercise: Weave all the assigned words and phrases into a scene of no more than 400 words.
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The idea here is to spark a new story by blending ideas from disparate sources.
These words and phrases all came from different articles in this week's news. The words are: pirate, reporter, plant closing, and Ford Crown Victoria.
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Exercise: Weave all the assigned words and phrases into a scene of no more than 400 words.
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In critiquing, in addition to standard writing advice, be sure to consider whether the writer did a good job of incorporating the identified words. Would you want to read more?
These exercises were written by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop.
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