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Creative Writing Course Worksheets

1) Make your own words

Read the article on the longest word in English language on Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English)

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Define the grammatical unit and make a sentence out of the words you’ve made.

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2) Recalling already established words

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3) Make a Dadaist Poem

Take a newspaper.

Take some scissors.

Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.

Cut out the article.

Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.

Shake gently.

Next take out each cutting one after the other.

Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.

The poem will resemble you.

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4) Collect 10 gloomy words of the day and use of them in a fable.

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5) Exaggerate in words the day you’ve spent by making use of neologisms.

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6 ) Write down the definition of the words provided:

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7) Write down the definition of the words after reading them from your preferred sources (Oxford or

Merriam Webster dictionary)

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8) If this blank sheet of paper is a white room what would you do with the words you already have

and what would you create with them?

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9) Rewrite the poem by becoming the paper on which the dog is drawn on. How does the

paper feel, and what would be the paper say to the dog. Be creative.

I’m a dog, big fairly big 1

But I look small, like a mouse. 2

I may be as small as an ant in your eyes. 3

But I’m loyal to my master and I do my duties 4

All the time. One day I even licked the last drop 5

Of milk I was given. My master patted me and I barked 6

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10) Using geometric shapes construct the building of a

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11) TED Talks are famous for their out of the box presentations given by researches all around the

world. Wimp.com, a family video friendly, and TED both are equally life changing. Name and describe

the websites you’d make (e.g. adoptanauthor.wordpress.com). Be lucid in your idea and language.

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12) Make your own punctuation marks and define them.

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Image source pages:

1) C.S. Lewis - http://georgemacdonald.info/lewis.html

2) Ed Cooke - http://www.dadart.com/dadaisme/dada/037-Tzara.html

3) Tristan Tzara - http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/05/start/crowdsourced-

mnemonics

4) Herodotus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus#mediaviewer/File:Herodotos_Met_91.8.jpg

5) Neologism - https://www.google.com.pk/#q=define:+neologism

6) Drama - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama

7) Prometheus Bound - http://blog.lib.umn.edu/dadda002/theatre_history/2012/04/what-is-history-

a-walkthrough.html

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10) Seamus Heaney - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/oct/10/seamus-heaney-1939-

2013/, Sylvia Plath - http://mypoeticside.com/poets/sylvia-plath-poems

11) Chris Anderson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference),

http://vialogue.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/ted-talks-worth-talking-about-chris-anderson-how-web-

video-powers-global-innovation/

12) Punctuation mark rules - http://www.beidaenglish.com/easy-english/punctuation/