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The Story’s History

Hello an welcome back. Today’s post is from Chapter 2 of the What If? book by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter. The gist of the exercise is to know what happened in the characters’ lives before the story takes place. And how it affects […]

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What If Excercise

Hello and welcome back. I recently found a book called What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter. So I am going to use this book for a series of posts using the exercises in the book. […]

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What If Game

Hello and welcome back to my blog. A good way to come up with stories is to play the what if game. This is a game played by many different writers to come up with an original story. For me an idea […]

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A Writing Exercise

Hello and welcome back. Today’s post I am going to do a writing exercise from one of James Scott Bell’s writing books, Voice. Normally he recommends to spend about half an hour in a coffee shop somewhere with a legal pad coming […]

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