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Talk about your projects - share your ideas, progress and problems with the people in your life Write lists - to-do lists, shopping lists, wishlists, your character's to-do lists/shopping lists/wishlists Keep a notebook in your pocket or bag and write down every idea, quote, observation that you find interesting Listen to music that has inspired you in the past Make connections with like minded people - join a club, find a writing buddy Enrol in an art class - photography, needlecraft, writing, painting, cake decorating. Whatever you like. You might not be good at it but you'll be keeping your creativity alive. Stay creative. Get a library card and use it - "Having fun is never hard when you've got a library card!" Write in a different setting - go to a historical site, an open garden, a field, sit by a lake, find a nice spot in a cemetery. Just go somewhere that you wouldn't usually go, especially to write Write a letter to your character(s) telling them what you want from them. Why are they not doing what you want them to do? Write their reply. Rewrite part of a film, poem, novel that you love - transform it, make it yours Edit someone else's work - you don't have to tell them Keep a dream diary - I know it's generic and a little lame but I've found writing my dreams down as though I'm planning a story quite insightful. If you dream as vividly as I do, keeping a dream diary will be easy but if you don't remember your dreams, how about a daydream diary? People watch - sit in a cafe, a pub, or park and observe the people around you. Make up their stories in your head - why are that couple not talking to each other? Is that a mother and son or are they lovers? Is that paint or blood on that child's hands? Go to a museum and learn something about the past - write about your experience in the third person Keep a diary of one of your characters - purchase a set of small notebooks or start an online journal to write your character(s) thoughts in Find a children's book - rewrite it as a horror story Read a genre you wouldn't usually read - always read fantasy? Try crime fiction. Horror? Give historical romance a go Play Scrabble on your own then write something using all the words you make on the board If you use a computer to write, cover the screen to stop yourself from editing as you go Just write - every idea you have has already been imagined in some form or another so let go of that ever-present need to write something original Turn off the TV. Now. Stop watching TV, movies etc for a week and see how much you get done Read your work out loud - either to yourself or to someone else. You could even have someone else read it to you (be brave!). Record yourself reading, listen back and edit from there Stop looking for the perfect word while you write - worry about it when you edit Write using the method you're comfortable with - don't let anyone tell you you're 'doing it wrong', it's your work and you are the only critic that matters Don't censor yourself - 'Do I really need all those swear words? Is the description of that character offensive?' Maybe, maybe not - figure it out when you edit
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The Problems With Stories Written by Teenagers
Don't be offended at the title. "Teenagers" is just my way of saying "people who write unprofessional/shallow stories." Not all teenagers write shallow stories, it just sounds catchier.... Anyway.
The first thing I want to make clear is: I'm not talking about anything mechanical in this deviation. Grammar/spelling is important (obviously), but that point has been beaten to death by people on the internet already. My purpose, as always, is to talk about the stories themselves, regardless of the way they are communicated. Whether it be through written word or on-the-spot narration, I believe there are certain tricks to telling good stories. No
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7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 3 “Introductions”
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When a reader first picks up a book, they create an instant connection with the author of the story—formed through a required level of trust just so that the two of you can immerse yourselves in the world you have created. The writer and the reader are, at that point, friends or pleasant acquaintances; and at that moment of relationship and immersion into the realm of story, the characters become just as real as the reader/write
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The Chronology of Storytelling
Imagine you're reading to a live audience. It can be as big or small as you'd like. It can be your writing or someone else's. It doesn't matter. Indulge yourself in the fantasy. So you're reading to a live audience. They're enraptured. They're engrossed. They're generating a movie in their heads as you weave your tale. Imagine how important every word you produce is to these movies. Every detail you provide adds another layer. They smell the flowers. They feel the roughness of the brick. They see the vivid colors of the clothes.
And then you require they perform time travel to make the movies accurate.
Wait. What?
The chronology, or order
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These are some ideas I've come up with to keep me writing. Can you think of any more?
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By the time I finished reading this, I never realize that I almost done them all. My television is off right now and I have headphones on my head...Silly me.