Nubian Writers Group

The Nubian Writers Group

Writing Tips/Exercises

1. Write a 6 Word Memoir and share (modify it with different themes: love, family, community...). www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/03/15/six_words_tell_all_you_need_to_know/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2

2. 13 Tips For Actually Getting Some Writing Done

3. Write a topic word in the middle of a page, circle it and without editing your mind, allow free thoughts to happen. Draw a line from the topic word in any direction and write any word or phrase that comes to mind. Circle that word and repeat until you have a bunch of connected word balloons on the page. Then scan them over and, again without editing your mind, begin to write something that makes the balloon words coherent. At the end, edit your prose and share.

4. http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/02/05/top-100-creative-writing-blogs/

5. Write every day at the same time, in the same place for a week.

6. Create poems from a word pool on the website: http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=1

7. Create acrostic poems : http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

8. Create Diamante poems: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/diamante/

9. Create Cinquain http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson391/Cinquain.pdf

10. Write about when did you come into the realization that you were Black; a Black Person? How do you know that you are a Black Person? What does Being Black mean to you, and based on what criteria, point of determination or influences? These are questions that posed to you, to gain an individual, as well as collective understanding as to how have we looked at ourselves as Being Black; and/or how do we as a people look at ourselves as Being Black; and from what viewpoint? The question of being Black can be changed with that of being African, Afrocentric an so on. That is not the focal point at this time, but will be addressed in a latter discussion. Look for that point of recognition in ones life, that you can identify with as being a Black Person; the time identified in your life, before you embraced being African - African American - Afrocentric, or otherwise... Or does the subject matter of you Being Black, matter to you at all?
11. Other poetry practice: