These exercises are designed for 10 to 30 minute sessions. Repeat them with different material.
Skill comes from repeated correction, not novelty of exercise.
Pick a drill and repeat it
The library holds 26 drills:
- One claim, seven statuses
- Mechanism without the framework
- The inconvenient answer
- Seven-sentence spine
- Removal test
- Paragraph verbs
- Old-new chain
- Detail classification
- Scene turn
- Backstory trigger
- Adjective deletion
- Causal humility
- Nut in one sentence
- Distributed nut
- 500 → 250 → 300
- Read-aloud marks
- Source boundary
- Quote test
- Countercase one-two
- Cold summary
- Title/body mismatch
- No-transition test
- One term, one meaning
- Two readers
- AI diagnosis only
- Close-reading apprenticeship