Released on: March 4, 2008, 5:12 am

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Industry: Management

Press Release Summary: It was reported that the great American author Sinclair Lewis
was once asked to give a lecture on writing to a group of college students: \"Looking
out at this gathering,\" he said to the assembled students, \"makes me want to know
how many of you really and truly wish to become writers?\" Every hand in the room
went up. Lewis looked at them for a moment and then folded his notes and put them
away. \"If that\'s true,\" he said, \"then the best advice I can give you is to go home
and start writing.\" He then turned and left the room.

Press Release Body: It was reported that the great American author Sinclair Lewis
was once asked to give a lecture on writing to a group of college students: \"Looking
out at this gathering,\" he said to the assembled students, \"makes me want to know
how many of you really and truly wish to become writers?\" Every hand in the room
went up. Lewis looked at them for a moment and then folded his notes and put them
away. \"If that\'s true,\" he said, \"then the best advice I can give you is to go home
and start writing.\" He then turned and left the room.
If the first secret of writing is to write and if you\'ve set up some sort of writing
schedule, the next step is to figure out what to write.
Opening a brand new file and looking at a blank screen often results in a kind of
brain-freeze; we feel as idea-less as the empty screen we\'re staring at. Writing
exercises can help us thaw our idea bank. The goal of a writing exercise is to open
your mind and allow you to hone your skills and experiment. The joy of such an
exercise is it\'s not \'for real.\' That is, there\'s no thought of pleasing an editor
or finding a publisher or meeting a deadline or getting paid. You\'re just writing,
with your internal editor turned off.
Some freelancers find writing exercises so effective and freeing they actually begin
every writing session with a 10 or 15-minute exercise. Others use them more
sporadically. But however you do it, writing exercises will help you with your
writing. Use writing exercises in your writing schedule, as a natural part of your
writing discipline; use the exercises often and watch your writing improve.
Ideally, a writing exercise is short, requiring you to spend no more than 10 or 15
minutes writing, thinking and feeling about something that\'s unrelated to the rest
of your writing work. In a way, they are like mini-meditations and mini-vacations
because they clear out the cobwebs and give you a new view.
It\'s that new view, that different way of seeing, of expressing, that\'s the key to a
good writing exercise. Naturally, not every exercise blows your mind every time.
Sometimes you are just not ready for the challenge presented, but even then, the
seed is planted. Sometimes you are simply not up for doing a writing exercise, which
is okay too. Again, simply reading can set some new thoughts in motion.


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