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Practical Creative Writing Exercises Book

book cover - Practical Creative Writing Exercises by Grace Jolliffe Why Are Practical Creative Exercises Good For You?

  • Writing exercises are the surest way to defeat the dreaded blank page.

  • Doing a writing exercise will demolish your excuses for not writing.

  • New ideas will come to you – without you having to ‘think them up.’

  • The experience of losing yourself in creativity will become a great new habit.

  • You will find yourself enjoying the experience of trying new ideas, experimenting with words and firing up your creativity.

  • You will become more focused and your concentration will improve.

HOW DO I KNOW?

I know this because although I love writing there have been times during my life when I didn’t do much writing at all.

Sometimes life can be difficult and there were times when I struggled and felt overwhelmed.
Most writers I know feel like this at various times in their lives.
I taught creative writing and script writing for years. During that time I worked with many students who struggled to find ideas or had difficulties with focus.

I knew from my teaching days that one of the surest ways to get someone writing is to give them a writing exercise and set a time limit.

Vintage typewriter illustrating a page with creative writing exercisesSo I began.

At first, I set a timer for just half an hour.

But without even thinking about it I soon began to ignore that timer and carry on.

That half hour became an hour and then hours.

Writing exercises helped rebuild my writing habit and my creativity woke up.

I learned that as long as I keep writing my creativity will stay awake.

Now I want to help other writers who find themselves struggling and that’s why I wrote Practical Creative Writing Exercises.

I developed all the creative writing exercises myself and drew on my experience teaching writing students.

I have learned from experience how to get results – regular writing exercises work.

THE POWER OF CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISES

I aimed Practical Creative Exercises at writers who feel like I used to feel – stuck as well as writers who want to build a writing habit, waken their creativity and feel inspired again.

HOW TO ACCESS YOUR CREATIVITY

My hope is that the book will inspire more people to explore the world of writing.

If you are one of those people who was put off writing by school don’t worry. Nobody is judging you now and those days are gone.

This is your time now and you can use it to write.

I believe it is hugely beneficial for our mental health to use our creativity in whichever way we can.

Whether you write for personal or professional reasons the pleasure and freedom you give yourself through writing makes it one of the most rewarding creative activities there is.


PRACTICAL CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISES

You won’t be able to stop writing because these beautiful and inspiring exercises will banish your writing block right now.

book cover - Practical Creative Writing Exercises by Grace Jolliffe

Never Be Stuck Again!

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9 Responses to Practical Creative Writing Exercises Book

  1. Silvia Frassineti July 31, 2014 at 1:27 pm #

    I can’t wait for your creative writig exercise book, I read and try many of your exercise in the website, many of tghem being very usefull.
    Now I am at the end of the first draft of my novel and I ame a little stuck before the last chapter, if I finished I’ll need plenty of exercise.
    For my writing group too.
    Good luck, Silvia

    • Grace July 31, 2014 at 2:57 pm #

      Hi Silva
      I am very glad you found the exercises helpful. Congratulations on getting to the end of your novel – not many people get that far. Best of luck with the rest of it.
      I hope to be finished ‘Practical Creative Writing Exercises’ soon.
      Best wishes
      Grace

  2. saroj June 4, 2015 at 11:26 am #

    Dear,
    Grace,
    I don’t know how do I start my writing.I originally From Nepal. I visited your blog its really inspired to me because of I want to improve my English language as far as possible. Due to some reason your thoughts are marvelous/ excellence. Your writing skills is unique way of presentation. You writes as a we are all our family members and you told us your health problem as well which is creates us very much intimacy relationship between writer and their readers. I wish your every successful life.

    • Grace June 8, 2015 at 9:12 am #

      Hi Saroj,
      It was lovely to hear from you. I am so glad you like the site. The funny thing is inspiring people to write inspires me as well. I wish you the best of luck with your writing and learning and improving your English. Don’t forget to come back and let me know how you are getting on.
      Best wishes
      Grace

  3. Saroj August 30, 2015 at 7:04 am #

    Dear,
    Grace,
    Its long time to see you again.Nowadays, I have been writing my own blog. While, I was writing so many things in my surrounding. It not only gives me aware of it but also boost-up my logical thinking on different circumstances. I am getting some ideas from your site too. Which helps me my writing as well as somethings newness in my blog. So, Its my humble request to you please go through my blog waglesaroj123.wordpress.com and gives me some sort of feedback so that I can improve my writing.(if possible). As far as I am concerned, being a writer its a really challenging tasks for everyone due to the fact that it takes time to reach into real realm of that particular scenario and word formation as well. I deep respect your all kinds of feeling. My wishes and prayers are with you and your family. Take care !

    • Grace August 30, 2015 at 4:53 pm #

      Hi Saroj
      I had a quick look at your blog as I don’t have much free time at the moment. I think your writing is interesting and my advice to you is to write very regularly and write honestly. The more you write the more you will improve.
      Best wishes
      Grace

  4. Saroj August 31, 2015 at 7:40 am #

    Dear,
    Thank you very much for your suggestions. I will be writing and learn by my each mistake in my writing. I will be ask at you if any problems in my life. Once again, I would like to say ,Take care ! have a great day !
    Saroj Wagle
    Nepal

  5. Robin Gillett February 17, 2019 at 3:25 pm #

    I love the idea of using Story starter lines. But I seem to fizzle out shortly after beginning. I need help to learn how to build on that starting line. How to develop a story from it. Any suggestions?

    • Grace February 19, 2019 at 2:14 pm #

      Hi Robin,
      Yes, it often happens that we fizzle out after a good start. I suggest you make a little plan before you start writing the story. Keep it simple – a story is about something that happens to change somebody. Perhaps an event that causes the character to embark on a new endeavour – or perhaps another character comes along and causes change.
      If you find yourself stuck- keep writing notes about what might happen and choose whichever course suits your story.
      Write regularly – it doesn’t all come at once but if you stick at it – it does.
      Best of luck
      Grace

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