Next week, though, we must put in a minimum 5,705 words plus 2,445 to total 8,150 words by next Saturday.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Writing Marathon
Next week, though, we must put in a minimum 5,705 words plus 2,445 to total 8,150 words by next Saturday.
More sparks to light your flame!
Pausing to reflect in the midst of my busy day, I thought of several key ideas in which to spring forth leads toward a story. Whether short or long, the main theme should be your primary focus in developing your novel.
1. Communication. Whether watching TV, reading a newspaper or magazine article, or passing along tidbits of the grapevine from your neighbors, we hear stories every day for enjoyment or to keep up with current events.
2. Our own drama. Bring up the past, the present or the future to garnish those happy/sad times and alter your own history into a renewed hope of the future or a twisted bleak misery of a life. The choice is yours! Sometimes our current problems in our own lives may add up to reveal a delicious ending or a crippled result, whichever your story may prefer to finish.
3. Write down your ideas. Don’t hesitate to write down those ideas that pop up fresh and inviting into your mind, no matter how ridiculous they may seem at the moment. You can work out the details later when you start writing. Some writers leave a notepad and a liquid writing pen (they flow easily at any time) on their nightstand, and wake up in the middle of the night to write down their dreams.
4. Outlines. Some writers prefer to draw out their story in a simple, numbered outline to assure themselves of a balanced body and clearer aim for their novel’s target.
5. Write fast. Still others like to get their one idea down fast and hard, including simple words into their story’s main focus, and expounding upon the frame with more sweet verbs and adjectives and nouns, interspersed with dialogue to flow the story along.
6. Quiet, please! Next is getting a very, shhhh time for thinking. No children clinging to your legs, no spouse whining for dinner. All is quiet in the household as you are all alone. Don’t let this alone time slip by; take advantage of it. Now sit up straight, breathe heavily in an out several times, and watch the stress flow out of your body. Lovely, isn’t it? After all this, now think up an idea or a problem or circumstance that has hit you between the eyes and you can’t see for anything ahead of you except this one problem. Let go with the words. Don’t stop to fix anything, just let those fingers fly over the keys and your soul weep out the truth.
1. Communication. Whether watching TV, reading a newspaper or magazine article, or passing along tidbits of the grapevine from your neighbors, we hear stories every day for enjoyment or to keep up with current events.
2. Our own drama. Bring up the past, the present or the future to garnish those happy/sad times and alter your own history into a renewed hope of the future or a twisted bleak misery of a life. The choice is yours! Sometimes our current problems in our own lives may add up to reveal a delicious ending or a crippled result, whichever your story may prefer to finish.
3. Write down your ideas. Don’t hesitate to write down those ideas that pop up fresh and inviting into your mind, no matter how ridiculous they may seem at the moment. You can work out the details later when you start writing. Some writers leave a notepad and a liquid writing pen (they flow easily at any time) on their nightstand, and wake up in the middle of the night to write down their dreams.
4. Outlines. Some writers prefer to draw out their story in a simple, numbered outline to assure themselves of a balanced body and clearer aim for their novel’s target.
5. Write fast. Still others like to get their one idea down fast and hard, including simple words into their story’s main focus, and expounding upon the frame with more sweet verbs and adjectives and nouns, interspersed with dialogue to flow the story along.
6. Quiet, please! Next is getting a very, shhhh time for thinking. No children clinging to your legs, no spouse whining for dinner. All is quiet in the household as you are all alone. Don’t let this alone time slip by; take advantage of it. Now sit up straight, breathe heavily in an out several times, and watch the stress flow out of your body. Lovely, isn’t it? After all this, now think up an idea or a problem or circumstance that has hit you between the eyes and you can’t see for anything ahead of you except this one problem. Let go with the words. Don’t stop to fix anything, just let those fingers fly over the keys and your soul weep out the truth.
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