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IWW
Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Word Play
These exercises were written
by IWW members
and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its
members.
You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that
you found
them at the Internet Writers Workshop
(http://www.internetwritingwor
kshop.org/).
Prepared
by: Charles Hightower
Posted on: April 19, 2009
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Exercise: Weave all the assigned words and phrases into a scene
of no more than
400 words.
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The idea here is to spark a new story by blending ideas
from disparate sources.
These words and phrases all came from different articles in
this week's news. The
words are: pirate, reporter, plant closing, and Ford Crown
Victoria.
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Exercise: Weave all the assigned words and phrases into a scene
of no more than
than 400 words.
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In critiquing, in addition to standard writing advice, be sure to
consider whether the
writer did a good job of incorporating the identified
words.
Would you want to
read more?
Web site created by
Rhéal Nadeau and
the administrators of the Internet Writing Workshop.
Modified by Gayle Surrette.
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