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Stupid Creative Writing Assignment--NEED TIPS!!!



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Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:43 pm
Monki says...



Nope. I keep bugging her about it though and she said because I keep bugging her she'll give them to us today.
Tom Riddle: "You read my diary?"
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:18 pm
Monki says...



Oh my gosh! It's been like, five months and I never gave you the guidelines! I have them here somewhere if you still want them...

*ruffles through old binder*
Tom Riddle: "You read my diary?"
Harry Potter: "At first, I did not know it was your diary. I thought it was a very sad, handwritten book."
  





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Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:26 pm
Gahks says...



Tip 1: Get yourself an ideas box.

Anythign vaguely interesting - an anecdote, something you overhear, a news story - can go in it. When you've got an ideas drought, rummage through it and see if you can string a plot out of anything.

Tip 2: Use a story generator!

Doesn't YWS have one? I also recommend http://www.seventhsanctum.com: it's full of great generators. It also makes great fun!
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner.

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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins