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I think it's a great exercise to strengthen your writing skills. You can focus on one thing to improve — descriptions, or characterization, or pacing, or sentence structure — and just focus on that...
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I think it's a great exercise to strengthen your writing skills. You can focus on one thing to improve — descriptions, or characterization, or pacing, or sentence structure — and just focus on that, instead of worrying about how it fits into the overall scheme of your book. There's no pressure to adhere to anything fore or aft in a story, so you have complete freedom to take the scene wherever you want. In fact, I've recommended this technique elsewhere on this board to help [work on learning your characters.](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/25013/what-can-i-do-to-familiarize-myself-with-my-characters/25014#25014) Adapt it for anything you need. Or for the pleasure of writing short scenes. If you write enough with the same elements (same people, same setting), you might find a story emerging. Or not. No writing is wasted.
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2017-01-01T15:29:22Z (almost 8 years ago)
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