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Warm-up exercise: Eyes shut
Writing Exercises
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Close your eyes and freewrite one page.
—MS
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The sense of sight
Sentences: Simple, fragment, run-on
Morale exercise: Real writers
Find yourself, but don’t say so
Phrases and clauses
Gerunds and participles: Avoid ING words
Warm-up exercise: Lunch
The handy dandy 5-W sentence
How does narrative die?
Issues—the word
Sentence fragments
Lie, lay, laid, lain
Trump and trumpery
Going further with farther
Beware of getting involved
Verbs: Avoid the quiet and the copulative
Interview with Mary Schendlinger
Sentences: Long is beautiful
Name your agent
Warm-up exercise: Television weeping
Narrative: Six principles and some examples
Living vs. being based
Sentences: A sentence is a thought, not a warehouse
Function shift
Convince/persuade and other fake synonyms
The order of things
"And" or "but" at the start of a sentence
Warm-up exercise: Eyes shut
Acronyms and otherwise
Warm-up exercise: Scar
