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We LOVE to read comments so please leave a comment and subscribe to Our channel:  https://www.youtube.com/writerslifeorg Grab your free writer's toolkit by going to  http://www.writerslife.org/finish-your-book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello there is Peter here again from writers life and coming up today the best practice exercises to improve your writing when it comes to writing practice makes perfect and while it's all well and good to write as much as you can it's also well worth trying to learn as much as possible about the art of writing - most writers are self-taught and that's brilliant but for those who want to take their writing to the next level to experiment or to learn about different writing techniques and methods they need to sit down read and learn and then try them out for themselves so here are some of the best practice exercises to try and improve your writing a great way to improve your writing is by editing someone else's work it's all too easy to get so caught up in our writing and not see the mistakes or the places where the prose could do with some improvement editing other people's work trains us to be able to spot these errors more easily when we return to our own pieces we'll be better able to weed out problems and inaccuracies rewrite or extend a short story find a short story that you love this could be anything from a classic fairy tale to one written by one of the greats think about how you could rewrite it from a different characters perspective or in a different setting or certainly you could write about what happens next extend the story while trying to emulate the style and tone of the original writer this will help you to think about different points of view as well as learn about for writers voices and see whether or not you can emulate another writers style or if your unique writing voice is too strong next creates new connections we all need to give our creative selves a boost from time to time creating new connections can do just that and inspire us with new ideas for our work going forward to do this write for headers on pieces of paper people places things and themes they write five things underneath each header for example Grandma Scotland photographs love tear up the paper and put all these in a hat and then pull out different mixes to create new connections and see what inspires you to expand next work out what works well this exercise takes time it can help a writer genuinely understand what works in a story take the top three best-selling books in your genre and read them as you do make a timeline of the action then examine the characters and how they develop and grow then study the language they also uses my descriptions and imagery and how they manage to build the world of people within them make as many notes as you can and then compare the three pulling out any similarities doing this will help you get to the core of what makes a story successful and you'll be able to apply your newfound knowledge to your own work a next mind-mapping and free writing sometimes the oldest techniques are the best free-writing where you allow yourself to write whatever is in your mind with complete freedom can help you loosen your creative cogs and give you new ideas mind mapping where you start with a central concepts or character and then add different layers of detail branching off from this can help you organize your thoughts and come up with new avenues that you may not have thought of otherwise so they have it the next time you feel as though your writing could do with a bit of a boost or you're curious to learn something new give these writing exercises ago and see if they can help to make your writing better easier and more interesting - and don't forget if it's drawing to write or finish your book our free rights as tool kit can help with it you'll learn how to overcome procrastination get organized stay focused find time to write and finally get your book published to get access now while it's still available simply go to http://www.writerslife.org/toolkit and that's   it for now be sure to give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and subscribe to our channel for more I'm Peter have fun and I'll see you next time bye for now