Writing Exercises - For Practice Or Distraction From Anxiety/Depression
Posted Oct 31 2008 9:13am
Write someone a letter (not necessarily for sending)
Describe a place
Describe a feeling
Write an erotic story
Find and enter a writing competition
Write about a memory, any one
List words you don't know the meaning of, look them up, then use one in the first line of a poem or piece of writing
Write an article about a subject for someone who knows nothing about it
Write a satirical news story
Find a funny cartoon or picture and turn it into a written joke / story
Learn how to write something short in another language (like 'I love you' or 'Thanks for all the fish', etc)
Write about a place on earth you've never been as if you've been there (use your imagination!)
Pick 2 totally unrelated people from your life and write a short story about them doing something (make it as ridiculous as possible, like your dad and your old kindergarten teacher taking line dancing lessons in Alaska...)
Write words the way they sound (rite wurdz tha way thay sownd)
