Annie Types

Good morning everyone! I just wanted to share something I found the other day. I stumbled across this really helpful list on Donald Maass’s web page. (Yes, at his website or you can tweet him.) It was a list of exercises to do with your WIP (work in progress). I happen to have a work in progress so I of course printed out his list and I LOVE IT. Almost as good as taking a class except there isn’t the actual exchange of ideas and guidance from a lettered professor.

The one I am currently attempting to do is cut words. Anyone who loves words and loves to write them knows there has to come the time to cut some of them. Number 20 (there are 58 of these and more being updated all the time) was a five minute challenge to cut 100 words from your last 3 pages. The penalty was to cut 200.

It took me twenty minutes but I cut over 350. Tight writing! Now I just need to really work on tightening my rounded bum. Waiting for spring to do that. Later.