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Where Do Your Ideas Come From?
Writers are always asked where their ideas come from. I’ve never been sure how to answer that. I suppose the most truthful answer is, “I have no idea.” I truly don’t. Some days I wake up with an idea in…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Meditation As A Brainstorming Tool
Writers do a lot of brainstorming. There are many methods out there — probably as many methods as there are writers. Here’s one I’ve been experimenting with — meditation. I know I talked about this a few weeks back as…
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Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Idea Generation
Sometimes ideas pop in from nowhere. Other times you have to go hunting for them. The ones that pop in from nowhere are easy to find. The ones you have to hunt for are another story. There are ways to…
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
Brainstorming
Sometimes ideas come easily with no effort. Most times, they don’t. That’s when you have to sit down and brainstorm ideas. The internet has a lot of information on brainstorming. There are a number of techniques out there. One of…
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Posted in Writing Techniques
Finding Inspiration and letting the words flow
Inspiration often comes in the form of ideas or words for me. When I want to write something the word just flow out of me onto the computer screen. If the words don’t flow, I know that I am not…
Tagged with: ideas, Inspiration, writing
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Fiction, Writing Techniques
Rambling in a Journal
A good writing exercise is to just sit down and write. The technical term for it is free writing. I call it rambling in my journal. A lot of my blogs start out as rambles in my journal. I often…
Tagged with: blogging, Blogs, Free writing, ideas, journaling, journals, topics, words, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in Fiction, Writing Techniques
Posted in Fiction, Writing Techniques
Five Minutes
What can you do with five minutes of free time? You can write a little bit. Do some editing. Do a bit of exercising. Think of ideas for parties, stories, or whatever. You can brush your teeth, or hair. You…
Seven Stages of Writing
The seven stages of writing are generating an idea, world building, character development, plotting, writing, revising, and publishing. That assumes that you plan to publish of course. These stages are actually processes. Before you can write anything, you have to…
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Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Dreams
I don’t remember my dreams as a rule. I keep my tablet handy in case I do wake up and remember a dream. It’s good to write them down as sometimes they can lead somewhere in fictions. Dreams are process…
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