Do you have cool story ideas in your head that you can never seem to bring to the page?
Chances are you’re not lazy, it’s something else.
Let’s go over some tips and tricks to beat it, then try them ourselves!
Category: Motivation
It’s Valentine’s Day, so let’s talk about how to LOVE your own writing.
We’ll go over methods to avoid negative thinking, then write a V-day story together!
One of the best ways to smash through writer’s block and get a story finished is with an outline checklist.
Let’s make one together and see what it can look like!
My book Metl: The ANGEL Weapon was just published!
But even though it’s my first published book, it’s far from the first book I wrote.
So let’s take a look at my first, hot-garbage-fire of a book that I wrote, and talk about all the things that I learned from it.
Sometimes we want to write, but we just can’t summon the motivation.
But thankfully, there’s a ton of different tricks that you can use to get your fingers flying across the keyboard.
For the last stream’s exercise, we I decided to try a new kind of exercise: writing our greatest fear.
To start, we brainstormed a bunch of fears, then chat voted on the one we’d write (“social situations” was the winner). We then wrote three opening sentences for three different social fears, and in the end, “chatting on Twitch” was the winner.
For the exercise we wrote for 30 minutes about a character going through that fear, then we stopped, wrote the sentence “Then I decided not to be afraid anymore,” and had the character overcome it.
It’s a different exercise than we usually do, but it was a lot of fun. Fear can be a great driving force for a character, and this was no exception.
Here’s what we came up with:
Last week on Tips-y Tuesday we talked about how wasted time is never wasted. This week I’d like to talk about one of the most difficult parts of writing: staying on track and writing consistently.
We’ve talked before about scheduling dates with writing in order to finish your project within the timeframe you want. For example, if you want to finish writing a book in four months, you can do it easily as long as you come up with a reasonable schedule.
But even if you come up with the greatest writing schedule in the world… it means nothing if you don’t stick to it.
Last week on Tips-y Tuesday we looked at how sharing our writing is scarier than Halloween but totally worth it. This week I’d like to talk about something I know I fear as a writer: wasting time.
Whenever I start a new writing project, one fear above all hovers over me: the fear that I’m wasting my time. Not that I’m wasting my time because the book might not get published (see Finding “The One” for more on that fear), but that I’m wasting my time because halfway into the book – or maybe when I reach the end – I might discover that I don’t like where it’s going and will have to scratch it.
And if that were to happen, months – perhaps years – of my life would have been wasted on something that didn’t matter.
Last week on Tips-y Tuesday we looked at how it can take a while to find “The One” when you’re trying to publish, but you’re not alone in that struggle, and getting there eventually is worth it.
This week I’d like to talk about one of the few things I’m actually decent at when it comes to writing: consistency.
I may not be so great when it comes to painting vivid scenes and bringing characters to life and even just putting words together nicely on a page. But as far as setting aside time to write every day and actually sticking to it, I’m practically Einstein.
Last week on Tips-y Tuesday we saw how the Hammer of Detail can crack open scenes like eggs and let flow the juicy rainbows hidden within.
This week I’d like to take a break from talking about writing (with a lowercase w) and look at Writing (uppercase!) instead
The difference? Writing (uppercase!) is everything concerning writing that doesn’t involve words on the page. It’s scheduling time to write, getting in the zone, minimizing distractions, overcoming rejection, etc etc. It’s just as important as writing (lowercase!), since you could have the greatest story idea ever, but if it never actually gets written and published, it’s the same as if you never wrote it.