What are some good writing exercises?

15000 charactes a week

>>9678403

Of just random words?

depends entirely on what you are trying to write.

>>9678403
>measuring characters

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>>9678399
hmm.
minimizing distractions.
set your goals.
finding inspiration.
don't fear writing something that isn't perfect
persistence
outside views

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hard work

>>9678425
>hmm.

Was it autism?

>>9678405
Of things you aren't embarassed of, without ragequitting in media res. That's the writing exercise.

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>>9678437
>yfw

>>9678399
prompts
journaling
writing descriptions of people you meet or objects you see

>>9678410

Yes, measuring characters

>>9678403
How many words does that average out to?

>>9680897

Depends on how sophisticated your vocabulary is.

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>>9678399
Take a shitty book and rewrite a better version.

Write a fanfic of a great book from a different characters perspective. Or an object. Write about The Shining from the perspective of a spider watching all that bullshit.

Do a pushup after every sentence constructed.

>>9678399
Gene Wolfe and Thomas Jefferson both endorse this method; memorize a short piece of writing by somebody you admire, and then rewrite it from memory without looking at the original. When you're done look at what you wrote compared to the original. Now you can directly contrast your own style with that of somebody you admire. Look at how they make a point and look at how you do it.

>>9681924
i thought that was benjamin franklin

>>9682125
Probably was, I didn't look it up, just remembered it was Wolfe and some old timey Freedom man.

>>9681924
Robert Louis Stevenson did this too. Jack London would also copy out Rudyard Kipling's prose for hours and days on end.

My advice: sit up straight.

>>9682149
What's the best way to avoid fucking your posture when sitting at a desk all day?

>>9682149
The idea isn't to copy prose, it's to understand your own. Not saying that's what you were getting at, but it's an important point to make.

>>9682159
Idk. I was raised to sit up straight. I also sleep on the floor. Being a hunched old man with a wispy beard is pretty /lit/ tho. I wouldn't worry.

>>9682178
>sleep on the floor
bogpill me on floor sleeping, is it a meme or good for you? I never feel comfortable in bed but I'm a gangly autist who has never known physical ease in his entire life so I figured it was just that.

>>9682182
Possibly a meme, but I feel like man was built to sleep on the ground. I also don't own a mattress so that is a large factor. I wake up with a stiff prick and a flexible back and that's all I ask for.

>>9680897
About 1700
Average English word is around 9 letters

>>9682205

Wait, you sleep right on the floorboards without even a mattress in between? That sounds like it'd make you stiff and achey, not the opposite.

>>9682228
Thank you.

That doesn't seem like very much for a week of writing.

>>9681924
Stevenson also advocated doing this with paragraphs you think are especially well written.
It's a good exercise, really makes you look at writing more in-depth. Fuck Dostoevsky and all his commas, tho.