Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 8:50:45 GMT
In February 2012 I published 7 creative writing exercises and in January 2014 12 new exercises for writing stories . After a year I decided to propose further ideas for writing short stories or novels or even just to do a pure writing exercise. Even though I stopped writing for practice a long time ago – now I prefer to write to complete a story and publish it on the blog or pitch it to a publisher or to experiment with self-publishing – many people feel the need to do writing exercises. But whatever the reason why you want to write, in this post you can find twenty-two ideas to exploit for your stories. Write stories from existing stories A first group of exercises starts from stories that we have already written or that others have created. It doesn't mean that starting from an existing story the work is easier. Changing objectives : switching from a story for adults to a story for children and vice versa.
The language changes, first of all, the style changes and Special Data some parts of the story will also change. Changing typology : moving from a long story to a bonsai story. An exercise to train in synthesis. The reverse can also be useful, taking a short story, perhaps 300 words, and turning it into a 10,000 word story. Changing narrative genre : moving from a horror story to a dramatic one, or from a science fiction story to a historical story. How will history change? And how much of history will we be forced to change? Change protagonist : take a character at random and focus the same story on that character. He will react differently to the obstacles of the previous protagonist, giving life to a new story. Writing the story of a film or comic : this is an exercise that I have liked to do for some time.
Films and comic stories start from a subject, more or less detailed depending on the scriptwriter/writer and also on the difficulty of the story. Taking a random movie or comic and telling that same story in short story form can be inspiring. And not even that difficult, since we have the plot, the dialogues and the characters. Transforming a theater drama into a story : a drama can almost be considered like a comic without images, if you think about it. There's a brief description of the scene and then it's all dialogue. What if we fictionalized Hamlet? Transforming a poem into a novel : the same goes for poems such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy and others. Here the discussion becomes serious and difficult and also very demanding. Who feels like it? Writing a classic story in a modern way : nothing original, therefore, but there are many classics and the choice is vast.
The language changes, first of all, the style changes and Special Data some parts of the story will also change. Changing typology : moving from a long story to a bonsai story. An exercise to train in synthesis. The reverse can also be useful, taking a short story, perhaps 300 words, and turning it into a 10,000 word story. Changing narrative genre : moving from a horror story to a dramatic one, or from a science fiction story to a historical story. How will history change? And how much of history will we be forced to change? Change protagonist : take a character at random and focus the same story on that character. He will react differently to the obstacles of the previous protagonist, giving life to a new story. Writing the story of a film or comic : this is an exercise that I have liked to do for some time.
Films and comic stories start from a subject, more or less detailed depending on the scriptwriter/writer and also on the difficulty of the story. Taking a random movie or comic and telling that same story in short story form can be inspiring. And not even that difficult, since we have the plot, the dialogues and the characters. Transforming a theater drama into a story : a drama can almost be considered like a comic without images, if you think about it. There's a brief description of the scene and then it's all dialogue. What if we fictionalized Hamlet? Transforming a poem into a novel : the same goes for poems such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Divine Comedy and others. Here the discussion becomes serious and difficult and also very demanding. Who feels like it? Writing a classic story in a modern way : nothing original, therefore, but there are many classics and the choice is vast.