Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
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Lies<br />
You will need: or<br />
What to do:<br />
• Make a list of objects, either from a painting or from a collection of objects.<br />
Section C<br />
Longer<br />
<strong>Exercises</strong><br />
A single object may provide items for a list, for example a museum display-cabinet<br />
will contain: glass, wood, screws, handles, etc.<br />
• Tell lies about the items on the list.<br />
For example: the screws are silver thoughts, or the glass is a deceitful speech.<br />
• The lies can be used separately to start individual poems, or may be combined into<br />
1 poem.<br />
Abstract/Concrete<br />
You will need: or<br />
What to do:<br />
• Make a list of 7 objects, from an artwork or collection of objects.<br />
• Make a list of 7 emotions.<br />
• From these 2 lists make pairs of objects and emotions.<br />
• Write a sentence of no more than 10 words,<br />
for each pair. The sentence must include the object<br />
and the emotion.<br />
For example, ‘brick’ and ‘love’ could produce<br />
the sentence: ‘His love was a brick on her<br />
toe.’ or ‘Loving bricks cracked.’<br />
The lines produced can begin poems or even<br />
make up the majority of lines in a poem.<br />
<strong>Exercises</strong> given by Mark Goodwin<br />
Nige Waters his Cactus, Anita Klein<br />
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WORDS<br />
THINGS&<br />
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