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WorksheetsPen Commandments Ch 9 - Writer's Block
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Steven Frank offers how many cures to writer's block in this chapter?
3
6
9
12
Writer's block is
a common affliction that happens to us all.
a rare disease that only effects a few
code for L.A.Z.Y.
a term used by someone making excuses for their lack of work.
People write in all sorts of places - trains, libraries, bathtubs, hotel rooms, gardens, rooftops, a favorite step on some stairs.
True
False
The first key to overcoming writer's block is to create a space in which to do it! This makes the act of writing different from
sleeping
daydreaming
eating
things you do in the car, on the couch & in class
Another way around writer's block is to
befriend a phone
phone a friend
phone a frenemy
phone a friend who will talk you through the trouble and write down what you say to help.
A first draft should be
flawed
left alone for a day or more
perfect
written after the due date
End on a
good term.
a beginning.
sad image.
high note.
To replenish your supply of words, to forget your problem, to relax, he suggests:
cooking
shopping
reading
walking
Steven Frank observes that is it best to write at what time of day?
first light
noon
after school
while you drive
Which of the following was NOT a ritual mentioned in the chapter?
Ernest Hemingway and his 20 sharpened pencils
Toni Morrison and her cup of coffee before dawn
John Cheever writing in the buff in the boiler room of his apartment complex
Nathan Englander who turns his cell phone off.
In the sympathy note, thank you note, & literary essay examples he helps by using which piece of his own advice?
Phone a friend
Putting up with imperfection
Ritual
State of Mind
In the application essay and speech examples, the key is
be yourself.
find your cave.
keep to rituals.
set your compass
