❝A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.❞
━━ Susan Sontag
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BASICS
━ Everyone is capable of writing.
━ Practice makes you better; just keep pushing through.
━ Handle criticism well from others, from yourself.
━ Writing is simple, but never easy.
━ Just write anything; everyone's work is unique.
━ Stop worrying about being 'good', just write.
━ ALWAYS read back your work.
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BEFORE STARTING
━ What do I want to write? (Brain storm your ideas!)
━ What audience am I aiming this towards?
━ Make a list of the character names you'd like to use.
━ Break up your story into three primary parts:
Beginning, middle and end.
━ Create drafts, in reference to the sections mentioned above.
━ Go through with notes, criticise yourself
and highlight things you want to add, things you want to change.
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TIPS FOR FINDING MOTIVATION
━ Keep reminding yourself the reason why you're writing
Refer back to the questions above:
Who are you writing for?
What is your main goal?
━ Imagine yourself writing
Picture your fingers hitting the keyboard, or your pen scraping across the page. Trick your mind into believing that you're writing something.
━ Find somewhere clean and quiet to begin
Surround yourself with a nice candle, soft music perhaps and the less distracted you are, the more you get into it. Sometimes, switching up your environment can have a huge impact on your quality of writing.
━ Look at your old notes, drafts
I strongly believe criticism is key. You have to be able to read through your notes and tell yourself 'no, that's shit' and if you have to refer to your draft 20+ times, damn, even if you have to write 20+ drafts, so be it.
*Also: ask a friend/relative to critique your work.
━ Take breaks(!)
Take a break, come back to your work in a few hours time - even days.
If you sit for hours on end, you'll begin to feel burnt our and lost for ideas/motivation.
Recuperate.
━ Listen to music that fits your writing
For example: 'a love story'
Listening to Taylor Swift, or Ed Sheeran might give you inspiration as to what to write next.
Let yourself actually feel the emotions.
YOU ARE READING
⇢ 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐈𝐏𝐒
Randomtips to help you overcome writers block and improve your writing skills!
