Practical Creative Writing Exercises: How To Write and Be Creative

by Grace M Jolliffe

Struggling with writer’s block?
Stop staring at the blank screen because there is a more natural way to have great ideas.

Practical Creative Writing Exercises is brimming with beautiful and inspiring exercises that will start your ideas flowing in seconds.

Once you try these exercises, you won’t be able to stop writing because your imagination will be free and you will be inspired.

We are all inspired in different ways, and this book demonstrates the different paths you can take.

Methods include:

    Dramatic Situations
    Abstract Exercises
    Idea-generating Prompts
    Visual Exercises
    Story Starters
    Story endings and more.

All exercises and writing prompts were road tested with students of all ages, so you will find plenty to suit your unique needs.

Practical Creative Writing Exercises will stimulate ideas and make you productive whether you want to write novels, short stories, poetry, film scripts or even non-fiction like memoirs, blogging articles and essays.

We all have ideas, but sometimes life gets in the way - that's why these exercises were designed to free the mind from everyday concerns - allowing you to focus on writing and forget the rest.

Learn to Visualise.

Using these creative writing exercises will enable you to visualise. Visualisation is fundamental to writing.

Your mind begins to draw pictures, and your imagination will very quickly develop these pictures into words and the words into stories.

Stop that procrastinating and start your writing journey now. You will never be stuck for ideas again.

About The Author

Grace Jolliffe’s first novel, Piggy Monk Square, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth New Writers Prize and broadcast on RTE's Book on One.

Her writing is published in literary magazines as well as broadcast on TV and radio.

Grace used to teach scriptwriting and creative writing to keep her in teabags and electricity. Following a serious accident, she gave up teaching and now shares her knowledge on her writer's website: www.practicalcreativewriting.com

Now very much recovered, Grace lives on Galway's Wild Atlantic Way surrounded by rocks, stones and roads to nowhere. 

111 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 14, 2014

About the author

Grace Jolliffe’s first novel, Piggy Monk Square, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth New Writers Prize and broadcast on RTE's Book on One.

Grace is not quite the full hermit, but she does live quietly in Galway, surrounded by rocks, stones and roads to nowhere.

In the past, Grace taught scriptwriting and creative writing to keep her in teabags and light.

Following a serious accident she gave up teaching and now shares her knowledge from her website: Practical Creative Writing

Grace loves nature and walking but the accident kept her indoors for quite some time. She blames the frustration/cabin fever for the creation of her imaginary town of Ballyyahoo.

She is happy in her current position as head of imagination at Ballyyahoo and is responsible for creating stories that combine magic and nature. She aims to entice children to leave their screens and put on some wellies.

Grace also writes for adults and is just finished two new novels from her Women Of Liverpool series. When The Sun Shines and The Sunshine Girl, will be available shortly.

Grace can be found at Grace Jolliffewhere you can sign up for her books and read her articles about rocks, stones and roads to nowhere, as well as this funny old world as she sees it.

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this in one sitting and loved it! I feel inspired! I've never considered being a writer, but this book makes me feel like it's possible.