Writing Exercises?
 

What, if any, writing exercises do you guys do?

One I like is;

The ABC challenge...
4 word lines that follow this template

A B C D
B C D E
C D E F

Example:

Animosity Beckons Causes Dismay
Bureaucracy Created Deficient Estates
Callous Defiance Enrages Faces
Delirious Envy Fights Greatness

Can you write a 20 line lipogram (e) about Keynesian v Austrian economics and upload to open mic section? You have 15 minutes to complete this writing exercise.

Lol haha that's good ;)

I'd hate that, esp. for a hiphop forum, it's too stifling for the multies etc which I'd inevitably be trying to use. I could easily do it, I think, I just wouldnt be interested in it and wouldn't like it enough to post it up.

There was a time at RB when I used to try writing in all different forms of poetry, just to say I'd done it. i remember one that went like

One
Two Words
Then Three Words
Next Its Four Words

and it carried on like that and had to rhyme, i forget what type it was called but i liked that one

i saw Namix did something recently in the help section that was similar actually

either way, my point being, it would annoy the fuck out of me to try that now

LOL

i love the freedom on writing what i want

that things too restrictive

^^point well taken

By writing exercises do you mean like doing squats with a pencil up your ass?

our doing dead lifts and drawing you rvision on your biceps to say you muscle your train of thought?

lmao +10 for this

been worried about your boarding lately tbh

Haha @Serious Do you copy everything? Ive only seen two posts by you today and they are just rip offs of the posts before them, which is a shame because one was a vote smh


@Lars yeah I know what you mean - but sometimes when im on a writers block or something I find writing exercises are a good way to get the mind going. now the open mics back and active you fancy a new collab sometime soon? Think our previous fell on deaf ears

check the post count... way of with the accuracy of what you have seen buddy

nah just making fun just bored at work

YOU KNOW THE DEAL

SEND ME SOMETHING BEFORE 4.45pm and i'll post it tomorrow

Lmao sounds good

I've been busy man, I just don't have the time these days to board at the level I should :(

I still got it though.

Trust.

Yo, just got a text from Deeze asking me to come through for a video shoot he's filming tonight, think I'm gonna have to jam early if Unseen comes through my work place.

Send it me ASAP if you want it doing for tomorrow.

I got a cool little thing going with it right now so going to give it some love and affection tonight instead of treating it like a cheap whore like usual.... so will send it tomorrow mate @Lars

Writing exercises, just keep it simple man.

Try to do 16 to a beat.

Write 24 lines, using the exact same scheme all the way through.

Practice with different forms to bring fresh life to your lyrics. For example, try your hand at a Shakespearean sonnet, a ghazal, or some haikus.

Picture a sad and painful/harsh story happening in the world today, some shit that just makes you feel pity for the world, and write 16 describing it.

Then go in the other direction.

these exercises should be simple enough, but require repetition.

getting better at battling is a bit different. read good battles, but also, watch comedy, stand ups, funny shows, etc where the dialogue is smart and people cut each other.

Study puns as well as metaphor development, practice doing that outside of a rhyme structure, in regular life, in conversation, etc.

@IamBenT I wasn't looking for advice... I was wondering what other things people do...

Should I assume that's what you do? If so I will assume by your enthusiasm it has wielded positive responses.

Curl the pen for 3 sets of 10 reps -
Bench press, your favorite novel for 5 sets of 5 reps -
Grip a Tennis ball 20 xs. & write 1,000 sentences a day -

Rinse & repeat. Flo rida's Padawon

10-Minute Short Stories

Step 1. Place 10-20 pieces of paper (fortune cookie paper sized) with short story topics in a small box (I use an empty pop tart box) The topics are like 'haunted house' or a piece of dialogue like 'No, don't do it!'
Step 2. Compose a complete short story in 10 minutes or less.
Step 3. After 10 minutes, think on if you want to go further on it, using the outline of beginning, middle and end you've written.

I've done this many times... great exercise.

my bad @FloReal no doubt man this is shit I have done and still do to this day.

I just write tbh.

I don't practice.

write an internal monologue of a young British prince who strongly wished he was of West African descent, and wrote in Ebonics in his poetic epistles and discourses to the new world

be sure to include his eventually exposure as a faker and the branding of his ass with his fraudulent pen name, after which no one took him seriously as a politician nor as a writer

Alternatively if you don't have paper; Write 10-20 short story topics and label each one 1-xx and use a number randomizer on the net. (Here's one you can use; http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/). I'm definately going to do this. :) Dope idea.