Exercises that Improve Your Writing

However good your writing is there is always improvement to be made. Whether it is an improvement in technique, in the way it flows, or in the manner of inspiration there is a lot that can be done to make your writing more interesting and generally better over time, and there are a number of simple and easy tasks and exercises you can indulge in to help improve your writing:



1: The list game - there are no rights and wrongs to being creative in writing, but the list game can help you to see where nouns and verbs work together to create images. Take a piece of paper and make two random lists of words - any words - facing each other, then use random numbers to select pairs. You will be surprised at how often you get previously unthought-of pairings that work.



2: The picture exercise - take a picture, any picture from a paper, a magazine or wherever, and write about it. Give yourself a time limit and talk about the way the picture looks, who and what is in it, where it depicts, why it exists, and then expand your writing to take on a fictional idea of what the people and the places in the picture mean. This is a very creative exercise and one that helps in nurturing originality.



3: Random word - pick a random word or phrase, a word from a dictionary or a phrase from an article, book or title, and write about it, unleashing your creative talents to give it a meaning and reason beyond what its mundane existence actually means.



4: Revise a passage - whether you use your own work or another's is up to you, but the trick is to take a passage or paragraph and analyse it for words that are non-descriptive. Words such as 'good' and 'fine', 'nice' and 'fair' are easily replaced ore erased, making this an excellent exercise in the art of revision and editing.



These are just a few sensible and simple exercises that can help you to improve your writing technique and style - you will most likely be able to devise your own from the ideas given above.





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