Practice

Practice

Drill library

Short drills for 10 to 30 minute sessions. Repeat them with different material, because skill comes from repeated correction, not novelty of exercise.

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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:

  1. One claim, seven statuses
  2. Mechanism without the framework
  3. The inconvenient answer
  4. Seven-sentence spine
  5. Removal test
  6. Paragraph verbs
  7. Old-new chain
  8. Detail classification
  9. Scene turn
  10. Backstory trigger
  11. Adjective deletion
  12. Causal humility
  13. Nut in one sentence
  14. Distributed nut
  15. 500 → 250 → 300
  16. Read-aloud marks
  17. Source boundary
  18. Quote test
  19. Countercase one-two
  20. Cold summary
  21. Title/body mismatch
  22. No-transition test
  23. One term, one meaning
  24. Two readers
  25. AI diagnosis only
  26. Close-reading apprenticeship