Creative Writing Exercises for Dummies

Contents at a Glance

Preparing to Create Your Writ ten Masterpiece

Sketching Out Ideas

Realising That Character Is Everything

Developing Your Characters’ Backgrounds

Creating Drama through Dialogue

Embodying Your Characters

Developing Your Dialogue-Writing Skills

Conveying Characters’ Thoughts in Style

Choosing and Using Different Points of View

Creating Complicated, Well-Rounded Characters

Painting the Picture with Description

Navigating the Locations in Your Stories

Appreciating the Power of the Senses

Getting Things Done: Describing Action and Activity

Building Character with Objects and Possessions

Using Description to Create Atmosphere

Managing Metaphors, Similes and Symbols

Describing the Inef fable: Saying What Can’t Be Said

and many more