Amateurs to Professionals (The Journey) Forum Your Writing Tips & Courses

-If you have an idea but it's somewhere in the middle of your story (like, a battle scene or a dramatic scene, something like that) write THAT first, that way you don't lose what you wanted to write later, then build around it.
-Try listening to music while you write. If you're like me, you can't stand silence when you're trying to make things happen. But don't listen to anything too violent, especially if you're trying to write a solemn or sensitive kind of thing, otherwise your music will be reflected in what you're writing. (I like Owl City, but that's just me.)
-Sometimes you can't type all at once. That's fine! try hand-writing something before putting it up on the computer screen, it actually helps to see your work in your own handwriting before typing it all up.

Editing has always been sort of a stressful thing and these lessons helped me out:

Here's a dormant group I made where I put my writing lessons.

-Write as much as inspiration allows you to. Don't push yourself to write more than the writing gods will allow you to because then it'll suck.

I was thinking of teaming up with professional writers to make a course on their journey to being professional. Each writer gets 1 lesson with their journey and tips. It'll almost be like an interview.

-change where its is your writing, if your always inside go out, if your always here go there, change your surroundings. -If possible go to an area to write that is similar to one your trying to desribe, if your writing about a marketplace go to one and absorb it completely so your reader feels as if they are there as you describe it. - Audio, also if possible put music to the scene in your head as you write it, kinda like  a soundtrack to your writing, this helps me alot when I feel blank. - If you get bored do something else for a bit or you'll start writing boring. - meditate, be still, breathe deep and place yourself in the story, ask yourself what would make this interesting to me and how will I make it interesting to you? - Remember your audience, who is your target crowd, who will identify with this writing?

-Brainstorm for ideas
-General ideas for beginning, middle and end
-Character ideas
-plan out the events
-Begin writing
-read
-rewrite
and keep rewriting or cut out some parts till it comes out the best way it can.

-Writing's a way to be heard. Think of the pen, the pencil, or the keyboard as a personification of your own voice. Get your ideas through; believe it or not, they matter. Once you realize that, you find so much inspiration for writing, you actually can't log it all at once.