Wreck This Journal: Burn This Page.

(Note: Taken from my Edition of "Wreck This Journal") The German instruction "Set This Page On Fire." gives you a little more space for interpretation: On Fire - Hot - Sexy - SRK, for all non-India-fans: Shah Rukh Khan, the greatest actor ev...

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Wreck This Journal: Make A Paper Chain.

(Note: Taken from my Edition of "Wreck This Journal") No comment! ...

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Wreck This Journal: Instructions.

(Note: Taken from my Edition of "Wreck This Journal") Designs of Person and Cat by Tangr...

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Wreck This Journal: This Book Belongs To.

(Note: Taken from my Edition of "Wreck This Journal") Stefanie! It's all your fault! ;-) BLOG: Funny's Happy-Housewife-Blog This is what I call my "psychedelic graphic-designs" - I used to do this as a student in boring classes!  ;-) Can you see Om and ...

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Quiz: Which Austen Heroine Are You?

(Note: This is a quiz of "Emma Adaptions") MY RESULT is Elinor Dashwood: You are Elinor Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are practical, circumspect, and discreet. Though you are tremendously sensible and allow your head to rule, you have a deep, emotional side that few people often se...

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Writing Exercise 05: Clustering

(Note: This is a unit of "Schreibaufgabe.de") THE CHALLENGE Assumed, you have to write 500 words to a certain topic. If you start writing just like that, in the end you might have 500 words, but for sure your text has to be edited several times. So, better first to get an overview and/or some ideas for that topic. One method is to make a cluster. Make a cluster for the topic dust and then write a text, that includes as many words of your cluster as possible. MY OUTCOME 1. The cluster 2....

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Creative Writing: Six-Word Stories

(Note: This is a finger exercise of "Schreibwerkstatt.de") THE CHALLENGE AKA as Flash fiction. This principle, taken to the extreme, is a six-word flash by Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." What Hemingway can, we can already! Go tickle the ivories - at least for six words! MY OUTCOME Avalanche. Dog found four people alive. Fortune cookie: Tomorrow you will die! She knew, one mushroom was poisonous. Last will: The cat gets everything. Lottery won: Tickets for the Titanic. Cancer....

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Writing Exercise 04: Names Is For Tombstones ...

(Note: This is a unit of "Schreibaufgabe.de") THE CHALLENGE ... said in the James Bond movie "Live And Let Die". Is that so? Does it matter what names your protagonists have? Can you chose just any name and start? Of course, you as an author you can do whatever you like. It's your decision. To pay some more attention to names has quite some advantages. Names can tell something about a character's personality. Every name has a meaning, right? One last thought: Do you think, James Bond would have...

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Writing Exercise 03: Show Don't Tell

(Note: This is a unit of "Schreibaufgabe.de") THE CHALLENGE "Show don't tell." - What does this mean? Instead of just naming the feelings of a protagonist, you better show your reader the actions that can be caused by those feelings. Write a half page of text and then edit the text with focus on tells. Where have you written shallowly? Replace the tells with shows. QUESTION This challenge gave me more trouble than I'd expected. I realized I'm a person, who likes to orientate on VAKOG. In my opinion,...

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Creative Writing: A Dialogue Story

(Note: This is a "Creative Writing Prompt") THE CHALLENGE Write a pure dialogue story. Make your story move along by using dialogues only. No narration, no description - just dialogues. MY OUTCOME »Hello.« »Hi, darling. Where are you?« »I'm just entering the park. Where are you?« »The bench at the playground south of the lake.« »Okay, I'm coming.« »See you in a minute.« »Bye.« ... »Hi, darling.« »Hi. I'm so sorry for being late, but that meeting wouldn't have come to an end. Someone should tell...

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