Writing exercises

Getting Personal with Harry Ricketts

Personal Essay Exercise Write a 600-word personal essay on one of the following: • my record/CD…
Poems with attitude – Aleksandra Lane

“What we need is recklessness and an owl-shit outburst and a good smack upside the head…
Recalling Mr Woodhead

Write a poem, or piece of prose, in three numbered parts in which you recall a…
Voice and Style

For discussion: Is it a good thing to use the language of music to talk about…
‘Legs’

This is about recognising the basic requirements of a story idea in order to be confident…
Easy as ABC

The alphabet, as an organizing principle, is arbitrary. But around each of its discrete, singular letters,…
The Job Interview

Here’s a fiction exercise: write a job interview scene. There are two parts. The first scene…
The Exercise Book

Introduction If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. –…