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Exercise #682: Craft
Posted 8/5/16
Today I’m revisiting word choices in our writing. (For a similar exercise, see Exercise #531.)
Action words drive your piece forward. The choices you make in your verbs help determine the speed at which it moves. If the hero saunters into the den of evil, that gives a much different impression than if he rushes to the rescue.
For today's exercise, use the following bare-bones paragraph outline and rewrite it into prose, driving it based on your action choices. The verbs already in it are not set in stone. This piece is not meant to be a whole story, only a chance to practice how different verbs react with the rest of a section of story line. You do not need to keep it in the same format, but the information in your piece should be recognizable here. For an added challenge, write up the paragraph a second time using different verbs.
Paragraph outline to use:
She finds him. He runs. She catches him.
Critiquers, along with the usual technical critique, you might answer these questions:
* Did the writing show you the power of verbs?
* Was this piece helpful to you as a writer? Why or why not?
Word limit: 1200 for one piece, 600 each if writing two
Please use the subject line
SUB: Exercise #682/yourname
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