Creative and Critical Thinking
Writing Exercises
Each of these writing exercises is meant to stretch your imagination and develop new areas of writing muscle.
Professional writers use these kinds of writing prompts or exercises in a variety of ways: to warm up before they write to help them "mine" for new writing ideas (sometimes the piece that emerges is brilliant and gets published as is, sometimes a line, a character, a novel writing idea is birthed from these kinds of writing exercises...) to connect and collaborate with other writers (writers take workshops, classes or partner with other writers and write on a given topic).
It is important to try new formats, structures and learn new strategies to communicate your creative and critical thinking.