WRITING EXERCISE 101

WRITING EXERCISE 101

Do you want to write visually? Do you want to write your scenes descriptively AND not get your readers bored? Do you envy the authors whose work are so indulging even if it doesn't have a fun storyline or too much dialogues? If yes, me too.

While surfing through the internet about it, I couldn't find much help. So I had no option but to devise my own practice method. And I swear on Aaron Blackford and my other fictional boyfriends, IT WORKS MAGIC.

So..... one article I found was going on and on about, think like a screenwriter, see like a poet, paint with words etc etc, and I remember thinking-- only if it was this easy.

In this method all you need is, still picture from any of your favorite movie or show (better if it is in the same genre as your WIP) and a blank document open. You don't need to think so hard like a scriptwriter or see things from a poet's perspective if you're not one yourself.

You open the picture on one side of your device and open your document on the other, and you describe exactly word by word about what YOU see. You can even refer to the context of the movie in that scene or maybe make up a new one by yourself.

Don't try to force in poetic devices if you can't think of any at that moment.

Instead, when you'll later read that piece of text again, i promise, you will get a rush of new and better ideas.

Practice this a few more times and the next time when you'll start to work on your WIP, you'll have a much better and clearer idea of what you AND your reader want to have there.

Make sure to let me know how this worked out for y'all!

Thank me later<3

Mahmoud Darwish, “Like a Small Café, That’s Love,” in Almond Blossoms and Beyond, tr. Mohammad Shaheen [text ID under the cut]

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when Sylvia Plath said "I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?"

it hit.

Surprisingly easy and effective

ways to start writing more efficiently

stop writing with the word count on!

use a font like comic sans -- trick your brain into thinking that it's not important, that the writing can be stupid, if it's in a stupid font (if you can't tell i despise comic sans)

time yourself to get to a goal

or give yourself a certain amount of time

quantity >> quality in the first draft(s)!

jot down what you want to happen in that chapter

try organizing your writing (nanowrimo, for example)

do *not* reread! it doesn't need to make sense, it just needs to be there

try not to stick yourself to something you saw on tumblr. what works for someone else doesn't necessarily work for you!

take breaks. time those breaks.

practice writing short stories / oneshots of your characters.

try getting all your writing done within a certain goal (as much as I can for 30 minutes) rather than writing 5 minutes on or off

write down every little wormy idea that comes into your brain! sure, it's probably for a different plot, but maybe you can work it in somehow?

on that note, mash elements of your plots together rather than starting a whole new story

see maybe what little writing competitions you can submit your work to

proclaim your goal to the wide web for some peer pressure

rewards yourself. cheer on every thousand-word milestone. brag to your friends that you've written something, anything.

don't think of the big goal—don't think of publishing, or posting, etc. think of the end of your chapter, the development of your character, where it goes.

switch your writing environment! where are you most productive?

make a playlist only for when you write. never for anything else.

getting off tumblr, probably.

have people remind you of your goals.

remember that it all comes with discipline, but also your mental health is the most important!! don't sacrifice half your sleep to meet your nanowrimo goals. try to recognize when it's taking you too long and close the document. do something else. come back later.

take care of yourself. <3 use this post as a breather (or reminder to start!)

Life is suddenly kimbap-i-kidding hard.

It's september, honey<3