Hey Writers! Think you're ready to become an author or have what it takes to be an editor? Try out these exercises and transform from student to master! 

Exercise #1: Creating Effective Descriptions: Try and guess what it is I'm describing and then create your own description and test it on friends!

"... Spread a solemn purple, burning with light of red jewel and furnace-flame at one point, on one hill-peak, and extending high and wide, soft and still softer, over half of heaven. The east had its own charm of fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star; soon it would boast the moon, but she was yet beneath the horizon" (pg 290). 

Exercise #2: Are you familiar with all forms of figuartive language? If you believe you are, attempt to guess these examples from my new book!

• "It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle" (pg 345).     _____________

• "He seemed to think it too good for common purposed; it was the real sunshine of feeling-- he shed it over me now" (pg 287). ________________ 

Exercise #3: Editing and Revising: Find the error and correct it!

• "Soon after five p.m., we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee and half a slice of brown bred" (pg 63). 

• "If she did she need not coin her smiles so lavishly flash her glances so unremittingly manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous" (pg 221).