Arts On the Go: Larry Parker II

ELMIRA, N.Y. ( WETM ) — Local author Larry Parker II shares a mental exercise to help with writing. It involves writing down many words that start with a specific letter in under a minute.

Parker, whose background is in psychology and mental health, expresses how it is a warm-up exercise to help with sentence structure and overcome writer’s block.

“What it does is it unlocks your prefrontal cortex and then all of a sudden the sentences will start coming to you,” said Parker.

The exercise, according to Parker, can be beneficial to people at different writing levels. Anyone can use the exercise, and make mistakes that will eventually lead to writing sentences.

Parker went on to say, “That’s the beauty of writing. It’s okay to make a mistake. Just get writing, because that mistake will lead to the unlocking of the rest.”

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