Girls When This Song Comes On:

Girls when this song comes on:

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

here's a random theory i have about dead poets society.

when keating breaks down at the end of the movie after seeing the 1st page of that book, that is because it reminded him of the time when he was a boy and was part of the dead poets. what more could have happened was that neil's death had reminded him of one of his friends who had also killed himself at that time.

after opening the book, he saw the text written by his friend who had died back then and that made him realize the parallel between then and now.

It's september, honey<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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