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Exercise 1

So here it is! The first exercise. This one may seem basic, but I know I for one have not been doing much fiction writing recently, and feel rusty, and figured that it would be good to start at the beginning and build up.

I'm scanning these in from my "What If?" book - it's a pretty straightforward writing exercise book but I think it is an excellent one. As I find other sources, I'll pull from them as well, and if any of you come across something you think would be suitable, let me know and I will post it.

I think we need to decide on a time frame for these. They for the most part fairly easy to complete in a short amount of time. Some may take longer. Some you may not want to do. So my ideas were thus:
We propose a 3 day period for exercises. If I post on a Tuesday, then we all have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to respond. The next one should be posted on Saturday, and then so on from there. If, by some chance (especially since there are only 3 of us currently), we all finish ahead of time, I will post the next exercise early. If you can't finish the exercise in the allotted time for some reason, but still want to participate in it, you can post it after the next exercise is posted at any time. If you guys think a longer default period, like 5 days, is better, just let me know.
Exercise responses should be a new post with this title:
Exercise 1 - somaliris (obviously your name here)
This will keep them organized and separate from other types of posts, such as news posts, works in progress posts, calls for brainstorming, etc.
All posts which contain original writing should have either "critique" or "non-critique" in the tags. This will allow others to know if you want the work critiqued. As always, critiques should be constructive and respectful (not that I expect otherwise from y'all :P ).

I think that is all!

Here it is:
Exercise 1

Have fun! Post any questions here!
<3

Comments

I think you may need to add the tags for critique or non-critique, since I'm unable to add them as tags until they've been added by the moderator to the tag list. :(
I think the tags should be working now :)
Sweet, thanks! <3
Oh yeah, and I'm all for 3 days right now. My opinion may change if the exercises get harder/crazier?
Sounds good to me! We can always adjust if we need to later. I will get to critiquing tomorrow!