Comments on: I’m Frank, and I’m Addicted to Writing Exercises http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2006/07/31/im-frank-and-im-addicted-to-writing-exercises/ frank tempone's literary project Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sarah Nadeau http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2006/07/31/im-frank-and-im-addicted-to-writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Sarah Nadeau Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:44:01 +0000 http://www.absolutegentleman.com/?p=16#comment-14 It's not that I'm an intellectual snob - you've heard me say "ain't" as if it was a word probably a dozen times - but I HATE writing exercises. They throw me straigth back to second grade and writing the same "who is your greatest hero?" story a hundred times. Actually, not even second grade. Every year of school I have written about five 'hero' things. The one exercise that I love is playing with the magnetic poetry words. It’s not that I’m an intellectual snob - you’ve heard me say “ain’t” as if it was a word probably a dozen times - but I HATE writing exercises. They throw me straigth back to second grade and writing the same “who is your greatest hero?” story a hundred times. Actually, not even second grade. Every year of school I have written about five ‘hero’ things.

The one exercise that I love is playing with the magnetic poetry words.

]]> By: laura m. http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2006/07/31/im-frank-and-im-addicted-to-writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-10 laura m. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:32:51 +0000 http://www.absolutegentleman.com/?p=16#comment-10 Hi Frank! Count me as one of the ten. And I, too, have a guilty love for writing exercises. It's like when I was a kid, and we had to do those dumb activities in school, where we were told to "write a story about the picture." I loved it. I even failed the listening portion of a kindergarten standardized test (14th percentile!) because I was too busy looking ahead in the book and making up stories about kids playing ball. They sent me for a hearing test. Right now I have a whole blog dedicated to following the prompts in a Writer's Digest publication. I think of it as the writing classes I can't take, the MFA I can't afford. Hi Frank!

Count me as one of the ten.

And I, too, have a guilty love for writing exercises. It’s like when I was a kid, and we had to do those dumb activities in school, where we were told to “write a story about the picture.” I loved it. I even failed the listening portion of a kindergarten standardized test (14th percentile!) because I was too busy looking ahead in the book and making up stories about kids playing ball. They sent me for a hearing test.

Right now I have a whole blog dedicated to following the prompts in a Writer’s Digest publication. I think of it as the writing classes I can’t take, the MFA I can’t afford.

]]> By: Emma http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2006/07/31/im-frank-and-im-addicted-to-writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Emma Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:03:08 +0000 http://www.absolutegentleman.com/?p=16#comment-9 (I'm one of the ten...) (I’m one of the ten…)

]]> By: Vivian http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2006/07/31/im-frank-and-im-addicted-to-writing-exercises/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Vivian Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:20:59 +0000 http://www.absolutegentleman.com/?p=16#comment-8 ...and not only that, it has a Foreword by John Gardner. :-) …and not only that, it has a Foreword by John Gardner. :-)

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