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Stuck on your story? It can happen to the best of us: our characters refuse to character, our book refuses to book. Here are 81 creative exercises to get your brain moving again, including:
- Write a synopsis of your book as a video game vision statement.
- Orchestrate your story: Is your heroine a delicate flute or a sassy alto sax?
- Describe your character as though they were a bitey shelter cat you are desperate to adopt out.
Yoon Ha Lee
Yoon Ha Lee is the author of Ninefox Gambit, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards; its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade novel Dragon Pearl won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Louisiana with his family and a very lazy catten, and has not yet been eaten by gators.
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