by james@greybear.co | Feb 13, 2023 | Daily Themes
Ground rules: Choose one of the funniest jokes you’ve heard and which you can bear to think about repeatedly during the coming week. 1. Tell the joke (a) in its full and complete form, and then (b) in a compressed, telegraphed form that still retains the... by james@greybear.co | Feb 13, 2023 | Daily Themes
Exercises Take some debatable proposition, on any matter of pressing public or private concern that you with. It can be of the form, for example, of “One should (always/never) do X”or “One should always/never) do X, if Y is the... by james@greybear.co | Feb 12, 2023 | Daily Themes
Exercises: This week you will write five character descriptions, each from a different, though not necessarily unrelated, point of view. 1. Develop a description of a character type beginning, “He (she) was the kind of person who…” Such a... by james@greybear.co | Feb 12, 2023 | Daily Themes
Exercises: A and B are two speakers, or the same or different sexes, ages, conditions of live, etc. You may name them, given them identities, as you please. At some point in the course of the dialogue between them–which itself occurs at some interesting... by james@greybear.co | Feb 12, 2023 | Daily Themes
Exercises 1. Two separate paragraphs. Consider some actual or imagined room. In your first paragraph, describe the room’s interior from some vantage point outside it, e.g., through an open door, window, a skylight, etc. Then, in your second paragraph,... by james@greybear.co | Feb 12, 2023 | Daily Themes
Exercises During the past weeks, we have considered scale (in relation to description) and scope (in relation to the referential breadth of a piece of writing). We have also touched on the build, or the story of its own unfolding and developing, of a paragraph... 
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