Winning Tips for Writing
I have always believed everyone is a writer. Everyone has a story to tell. The thing that makes one think they can not write is because they just
haven't figured out the formula. I hope you will find the following tips helpful:
Top most helpful hints
Everything, yes everything, has a past, present and future. No matter what it is. Let's try this little exercise:
Writer's block
I learned this from a writing workshop. When you hit writer's block it usually means you need to change the direction of your story. For example,
I reached a severe case of writer's block while working on Purple Haze. Purple Haze originally had another title. The aha moments that got rid of
my writer's block was changing the title and adding in the references to the color. Originally Pandora was an altogether separate character until I
merged her with the identity of another character. It was as if the two were talking to me saying can't you see we're one in the same. After that,
the rest of the story just flowed. When your characters talk to you, listen. And, no, you are not going crazy if you answer back. Sometimes we
have to speak our writing scenes out loud to insure they make sense. Reading your work out loud helps with writer's block.
So try these helpful hints and contact me to let me know how you come out.
I have always believed everyone is a writer. Everyone has a story to tell. The thing that makes one think they can not write is because they just
haven't figured out the formula. I hope you will find the following tips helpful:
Top most helpful hints
Everything, yes everything, has a past, present and future. No matter what it is. Let's try this little exercise:
- Get a sheet of paper and something to write with.
- Look around the room. Pick an object; any object.
- Draw a circle on your paper and write down in the circle the object you have chosen (this is now your subject).
- Draw a line out from the subject's circle and write the word past on that line.
- Underneath write down what you know about that object before it was in that room.
- Draw a second line out from your circle and write the word present.
- Now underneath that title write down every current characteristic
- (describe the object's appearance, function, etc.) of the object.
- Next draw a third line out from the circle and write future.
- Underneath this heading write what you predict will happen to this object after you have left the room. The information can be fact or
fiction. You are talking about the future, thus your imagination is limitless.
Writer's block
I learned this from a writing workshop. When you hit writer's block it usually means you need to change the direction of your story. For example,
I reached a severe case of writer's block while working on Purple Haze. Purple Haze originally had another title. The aha moments that got rid of
my writer's block was changing the title and adding in the references to the color. Originally Pandora was an altogether separate character until I
merged her with the identity of another character. It was as if the two were talking to me saying can't you see we're one in the same. After that,
the rest of the story just flowed. When your characters talk to you, listen. And, no, you are not going crazy if you answer back. Sometimes we
have to speak our writing scenes out loud to insure they make sense. Reading your work out loud helps with writer's block.
So try these helpful hints and contact me to let me know how you come out.
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