After reading Gonzales’s article on Diane Oliver consider what aspects and experiences in your own life would make for interesting literature. What would excited you to write about?
August's Exercise Response
Please share your thoughts on scene and narrative summary in the work you’re reading.
July's Exercise Response
Change it up, y’all, and let us know how it goes.
June's Exercise Response
Share your character’s core with us in the comments below.
May’s Exercise Response
April's Exercise Response
Can you tell us a little about the particular thing concerning your work that is keeping you committed to it?
March's Exercise Response.
We want to read about character’s failures, so please share in the comments below.
February's Exercise Response
Being a journalist in your prose and poetry.
January's Reading Exercise Response
What works did you repair to? What inspires you about them? Share your thoughts below.
November's Exercise Response
Share your, I mean, your character’s, anxieties below.
October's Exercise Response
It’s the zeitgeist, baby. Share your exercise responses below.
September's Exercise Response
Make sure to let us know the work of art your character is responding to.
August's Exercise Response.
All right, let us know how you work under the influence!
July's Exercise Response
June's Exercise Response
Write a poem or scene in which you dare share with the reader how this moment will be replayed later on in the character’s life, whether it be that evening or ten years down the road. Or, consider how land and landscape changes over time. Write a scene or a poem in which landscape is portrayed, and then move us forward in time. How has it changed? How has it remained the same?
May's Exercise Responses
April's Exercise
For Exercise #1, feel free to cut and paste the song lyrics here. I’d love to see what you discovered.
For Exercise #2, I’d love to see how you’re applying these ideas to your own work.
March's Exercise
And feel free to include links to articles about the local issues you’re writing about if they’re available.
February's Exercise
January's Exercise
How do you plan to work in the New Year?