Write about a couple moving out of their house or apartment.
Write for fifteen minutes. When you’re finished, post your practice in the comments section. And if you post, be sure to leave feedback on a few practices by other writers.
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Some sad news today. Our longtime regular contributor, Sophie Novak, is taking a leave of absence from The Write Practice to visit her family in Macedonia and travel around the Balkans for a few months (she lives in Bath, UK).
At the start of January, another of our longtime contributors, Katie Axelson, left to travel through Central and South America for a year. She’ll be blogging here if you’d like to follow along.
Apparently, if you write for The Write Practice there’s a really good chance you’ll end up travelling the world. So that’s fun.
Which is the better vantage point for the writer: being an outsider or insider? Do the prophets in the wilderness or the embedded reporters make better writers?
This is an important question for us writers because it’s pertains not only to how you write but to how you should live. Should you seek happiness, the society of others, and success? Or should you seek isolation and individual expression?
How do you write something that makes your readers cry? Something that sends chills down people’s backs? Prose that explodes in your readers’ imaginations?
How do you write books that sing?
The fact is you don’t write books that sing. It’s impossible. Instead, you edit them until they sing whether they want to or not.
I consider myself primarily a creative writer, but to pay the bills, I take on many the odd job involving writing. Because of that, I’ve been doing a lot of editing lately, editing blog posts, articles, books, and more.
With all this editing, I’ve found that I keep making several of the same changes again and again. Yes, there are typos and grammatical corrections, but a surprising amount of the editing I have to do is just simple formatting.
