http://www.desertpond.com/start-writing-again/writing-exercises/ ....................Always wanted to write? It's not too late. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.desertpond.com/start-writing-again/writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Erica Sun, 31 May 2009 02:39:23 +0000 http://www.desertpond.com/?p=181#comment-50 No - someone brought me up as a pretty good rule-follower and it felt wrong to start the book on the January 1st exercise when I bought it in May so I got to skip the exercise on "writing an allegory using each character to represent an abstract trait" and started with May 11th's exercise "Turning Experiences Into Story Material". And thank goodness, too, because it will take me a week to figure out what to do for that other one! No – someone brought me up as a pretty good rule-follower and it felt wrong to start the book on the January 1st exercise when I bought it in May so I got to skip the exercise on “writing an allegory using each character to represent an abstract trait” and started with May 11th’s exercise “Turning Experiences Into Story Material”. And thank goodness, too, because it will take me a week to figure out what to do for that other one!

]]> http://www.desertpond.com/start-writing-again/writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Hope Aubergine Sun, 31 May 2009 01:40:13 +0000 http://www.desertpond.com/?p=181#comment-47 6:33am......not on your life!! ha-ha....but I did just read your ezine article on throw pillows. Love that one!! Gee, I wonder where you got that "throw pillows last a lifetime" gene? 6:33am……not on your life!! ha-ha….but I did just read your ezine article on throw pillows. Love that one!! Gee, I wonder where you got that “throw pillows last a lifetime” gene?

]]> http://www.desertpond.com/start-writing-again/writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Hope Aubergine Sun, 31 May 2009 01:33:56 +0000 http://www.desertpond.com/?p=181#comment-46 Of course, I HAD to check out the book....looks exciting........and intimidating! Yikes; the very first assignment scared the bejabbers out of me...the one for Jan. 1. Did you do it? Of course, I HAD to check out the book….looks exciting……..and intimidating! Yikes; the very first assignment scared the bejabbers out of me…the one for Jan. 1. Did you do it?

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