Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Copyright and acknowledgments

  3. I. Ruminations

    1. 1. Raw Material

    2. 2. My Window Is Your Mirror, My Mirror Is Your Wall, My Wall Is Your Window

  4. II. Exercises

    1. 3. First Things

    2. 4. Attention!

    3. 5. A Song to Write To

    4. 6. Less Time

    5. 7. Points of View

    6. 8. Points of View: A Scene

    7. 9. A View of a Room

    8. 10. Angry Letters

    9. 11. Group Writing!

    10. 12. 13 Ways of Looking

    11. 13. Finding an Image

    12. 14. Random Image

    13. 15. 5 Senses

    14. 16. The Taste of a Thing

    15. 17. The Scent of Somewhere

    16. 18. Abstract to Concrete to Abstract to Concrete

    17. 19. Word Share

    18. 20. Reflecting on Words

    19. 21. Weird Words

    20. 22. Word Substitution

    21. 23. Reading the Dictionary

    22. 24. Imitation Sentences

    23. 25. Sentence Rules

    24. 26. 3-Sentence Letters

    25. 27. Changing Lines

    26. 28. Playing with Paragraphs

    27. 29. Playing with Stanzas

    28. 30. Reparagraph Yourself

    29. 31. Rewrite a Folktale

    30. 32. Repetition and Revision

    31. 33. Make a Trade

  5. III. Revision Exercises

    1. 34. Changing Point of View

    2. 35. A Later Start

    3. 36. Cut Up

    4. 37. How? Why?

    5. 38. ReVerb

    6. 39. Extreme Surgery

    7. 40. Genre Switch

    8. 41. Miscellaneous Revision Exercises

  6. IV. Proofreading Guidelines

    1. 42. Inclusive Language

    2. 43. Diction

    3. 44. Authors' Names

    4. 45. Proofreading Sentences

    5. 46. Paragraph Transitions

    6. 47. Punctuating Titles

    7. 48. Confusing Words

    8. 49. Who vs. That

    9. 50. Awkward or Wordy Phrasing

    10. 51. The Problem of "So"

    11. 52. Single Quotation Marks Do Not Indicate Sarcasm

    12. 53. Hyphens vs. Dashes

    13. 54. Commas

  7. Appendix: Portfolio Guidelines

  8. Further Reading