Spice Up Your Writing Life
January 27th 2009 05:45
This is just a list of five things you can do to spice up your writing life. I would go more indepth but I had an exam today and it hurt my wrist-a lot.
1. Try a new form. If you've only ever written short stories, try a poem or a novel. Start your own blog. It may not seem like the best idea in the world, you may think a certain form of writing is better or worse than another, but they really are all equal. With writing like with everything else we have our own personal tastes.
2. Try a new genre. If you usually write comedy, try writing a tragedy or a thriller. If you write horror, try writing chick lit. Try something new and crazy in the world of genres and see if it works for you. Writing a completely new genre is a great experience and helps you discover talents to be honed you might never have found otherwise.
3. Try a new method of outlining. When planning, try a different type of outline; there are dozens of different methods you can find in places online. I'll probably link to a few tomorrow. A new way of outlining can show you what does and doesn't work for you.
4. Take a class. See what another writer would teach you as your best possible route to wherever you want to take your novel.
5. Do a challenge. Do a WriMo, Script Frenzy or another writing challenge of your choice. WriMos teach you something-it might be that you aren't good with that sort of thing, or it might be that those things are perfect for you. I'll be posting a link to each one as it passes, so stay tuned.
Myself, in the month of February I will be writing 1, 000 page journal entries from the PoV of The Lady, a Goddess in Jihad. One entry a day. Join me in the mission to write 28, 000 during February-1K in the mind of your character a day-and link to your blog if you're willing to post snippets. I'll be posting five or six of these diary entries to my blog.
1. Try a new form. If you've only ever written short stories, try a poem or a novel. Start your own blog. It may not seem like the best idea in the world, you may think a certain form of writing is better or worse than another, but they really are all equal. With writing like with everything else we have our own personal tastes.
2. Try a new genre. If you usually write comedy, try writing a tragedy or a thriller. If you write horror, try writing chick lit. Try something new and crazy in the world of genres and see if it works for you. Writing a completely new genre is a great experience and helps you discover talents to be honed you might never have found otherwise.
3. Try a new method of outlining. When planning, try a different type of outline; there are dozens of different methods you can find in places online. I'll probably link to a few tomorrow. A new way of outlining can show you what does and doesn't work for you.
4. Take a class. See what another writer would teach you as your best possible route to wherever you want to take your novel.
5. Do a challenge. Do a WriMo, Script Frenzy or another writing challenge of your choice. WriMos teach you something-it might be that you aren't good with that sort of thing, or it might be that those things are perfect for you. I'll be posting a link to each one as it passes, so stay tuned.
Myself, in the month of February I will be writing 1, 000 page journal entries from the PoV of The Lady, a Goddess in Jihad. One entry a day. Join me in the mission to write 28, 000 during February-1K in the mind of your character a day-and link to your blog if you're willing to post snippets. I'll be posting five or six of these diary entries to my blog.
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