8.14.2009

Creative Writing Exercise #1 - Global Warming

Creative Writing Exercise Question:

Will human beings evolve to adapt to the effects of global warming?

I'm not quite sure we have that much time. Although the fate of humanity is questionable, such an unpredictable phenomenon begs a little bit of creative questioning...

8.13.2009

Welcome to Creative Hurricane: A Creative Writing Exercises Blog

My Mission Statement

Hello, fellow writers, muses, dreamers and smart asses... Here is where I will aim to inspire, provoke thought, promote joviality, inquire about our Universe, and create community. I want you to know that honesty, irreverence, and curiosity will all be rewarded here; Pettiness, rudeness and irrelevant, harsh remarks are prohibited.

My earliest memory of my budding passion for writing is poetry week in the 5th grade. From then on I've dabbled in numerous forms of the written word. I am a nerd for the English language. It has the power to make me cry, marvel, spur me into action, or sometimes, fall asleep. We don't want to be among the authors of the latter.

There are plenty of resources out there for aspiring writers, but the best tool I always found was something that got me writing- a random quote, a location that makes you think, the flowery prose of others. Books on style, analyses of great literature, manuals for non-fiction haven't the impact that a workbook of creative writing exercises or Writing Exercise of the Day calendar can hold.