Writing Tips - General
On other pages of this site, you can read many of my best writing tips. But this page is for you! Your tip can be about a grammar or spelling rule, the writing process, or how to get published. Anything you think another writer will appreciate belongs here. Click below to see writing tips from other visitors to this page... Spelling, Spelling, Spelling!!!!!! What to do for Writers' Block. Agony first, ecstasy second As you and your contributors have noted, reading is essential; lots of reading and extra reading in fact cannot be emphasized enough. Avoid time warp Keep notes of details and timeline separate from what you will write or need to write in your novel. Google Images for the win! Your writing - your interests One problem I often face is that I get bored half - way through. Cliches and Sterotypes We always roll our eyes at these. interesting characters Think of how you would you be if you were the character you describe. Backwards! Dream When writing you must think! enjoy it! 1.
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Creative Writing 101
RJ Great article. Morning is definitely the time where I am most creative. I think it’s because my mind is the freshest and the least cluttered at this time of day. Doug Rosbury When I write, it is with an emphasis on the sharing of wisdom arising from my life experience.
Fifteen Writing Exercises
Writing exercises are a great way to increase your writing skills and generate new ideas. They give you perspective and help you break free from old patterns and crutches. To grow as a writer, you need to sometimes write without the expectation of publication or worry about who will read your work. Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them. Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write a 500-word biography of your life. Write your obituary. Write a 300-word description of your bedroom. Write an interview with yourself, an acquaintance, a famous figure or a fictional character. Read a news site, a newspaper or a supermarket tabloid. Write a diary or a blog of a fictional character. Rewrite a passage from a book, a favorite or a least favorite, in a different style such as noir, gothic romance, pulp fiction or horror story. Pick an author you like though not necessarily your favorite. Try to identify your earliest childhood memory.
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The Creative Power of Thinking Outside Yourself
New research suggests we generate more creative ideas for other people than for ourselves. The hackneyed expression “thinking outside the box” is thought to come from the puzzle below. The idea is to try and join up all the dots using four straight lines or fewer without taking your pen off the paper or tracing over the same line twice. The ‘box’ that the expression refers to is the implicit one formed in your mind by the dots. To get the solution you have to ignore this implicit box: you have to, as it were, think outside it. (If you’re stuck in the box, google the ‘nine dots’ puzzle for the solution.) Puzzles like this challenge us to reach novel solutions by avoiding habitual ways of thinking. Imagine there’s a prisoner trying to escape from a high tower. People were given slightly different versions of this test in a new study by Polman and Emich (2011). What happened was that 66% of people got the answer right when told it was a nameless ‘prisoner’ who was stuck in the tower.
Creative Writing Ideas
If you are a writer, don't sit there hoping for ideas. There are techniques you can use right now to produce as many ideas as you will need. Here are some of the best and some of the easiest. Combining Stories "Concept combination" is a great problem solving technique used especially for creating new products to sell. It can be used a good way to create new stories, and is usually good for a few laughs. For example, if you start with the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and combine it with the movie, "Star Wars," you might get an interesting idea or two. Hmm... Random Scenes I once invented a car travel game I called "Explain This." Start with an odd scene, anything that pops into your head. I imagine the dollar bills are signed or otherwise identifiable, and can be traded at some big event for a gift worth much more than a dollar. More Ways to Have Creative Writing Ideas What's in the daily news? What stories do you most like? What do you best understand? What is most important to you?
Books that will induce a mindfuck
Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
