Story Lab: 3 Simple Ways to Kick-Start Your Writing

For this assignment i decided to do a story lab over the article 3 Simple Ways To Kick-Start Your Writing by Anthony Ehlers. This article is about three main points, Suess it up, Rewind and Review and Dear Me. Suess it up discussed about loosening your stiff writing muscles, by writing something you would find say in a  Dr. Suess book. This will lead to a possibly better story, or having more of an open mind. The second point talked about editing your story. To edit effectively  you should print out the last few pages written , and then make gentle corrections, or add in a new word phrase. The final section called dear me talks about doing pretty much a brain dump. This consists of writing down everything on a note pad that is on your mind, and this is useful in clearing your mind to start a new story with a clean slate. The section of this article that i would say is most beneficial to me was rewind and review. This is because often i do not edit as much as I should, or i edit too big of portions of reports, which leads to me missing errors.

Article: 3 Simple Ways

(Picture of a paper getting edited, Picture Source: Paper)

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  1. UnknownOctober 8, 2018 at 10:52 AM

    Hi Drew!
    I found this post super helpful, especially with finding ways to combat the writer’s block I sometimes get in this class. The most whimsical of the suggestions was “Seuss it up”- it was something really creative that I hadn’t thought of before. The picture is perfect, and I can definitely relate on the editing too big portions and missing errors. Thanks for sharing!

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