![]() ![]() Our 100+ Best Creative Writing Practice Exercises and Lessons It's also why we set up The Write Practice Pro community, to provide critique groups for writers to get feedback on their finished writing pieces. ![]() This is why we ask you to post your writing practice in the comments section after each lesson, so that you can get feedback from other writers in The Write Practice community. Feedback can look like listening to the reactions of your readers or asking for constructive criticism from editors and other writers. ![]() Getting feedback is one of the requirements to deliberately practice writing or any other craft. This is why in our writing practice prompt at the end of each post we have a time limit, usually with a link to an online egg timer, so you can focus on deliberate practice without getting distracted.įeedback. Setting a timer, even for just fifteen minutes, is an easy and effective way to stay focused on what's important. There are just too many interesting distractions-Facebook, email, Kim Kardashian's Instagram feed (just kidding about that last one, sort of)-and writing is just too hard sometimes. It's no secret writers struggle with focus. This is why we have a new lesson about the writing process each day on The Write Practice, followed by a practice prompt at the end so you can put what you learned to use immediately. You'll get better faster by instead practicing a specific technique or aspect of the writing process each time you sit down to write. Writing whatever you feel like may be cathartic, but it's not an effective way to become a better writer. I found that the best writing practice has three aspects:ĭeliberate. I set out to create the best writing practice I could. The Write Practice is the result. I knew how to practice a sport and how to practice playing an instrument. But for some reason, even after studying it in college, I wasn't sure how to practice writing. This was the question I had when I first started The Write Practice in 2011. The best writing practice is deliberate, timed, and involves feedback. Writing practice is a method of becoming a better writer that usually involves reading lessons about the writing process, using writing prompts, doing creative writing exercises, or finishing writing pieces, like essays, short stories, novels, or books. ![]()
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