Twenty-Three Tricks for How to Write Fiction

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Twenty-Three Tricks for How to Write Fiction

Learning how to write fiction can be tough, but with these tricks, you will be well on your way to being a pro. Use these writing tips to make the difficulty of writing fiction a thing of the past for you.

Keep it simple.

Take a deep breath and don’t stress out. When you learn the tricks that the pros use you will realize that there is a formula for writing fiction and as long as you follow the guidelines, you can get creative and bring out a masterpiece. Don’t make it overly complicated for yourself.

Choose a point of view.

You can choose first, second, or third point of view. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Most of the time when you are writing fiction it makes sense to write in third person. In third person you can have an omniscient point of view or a limited point of view. You can either be the narrator that knows everything or what you know is limited to what your main character knows. You can write in multiple points of view. Authors like C.S. Lewis would do this at strategic times to have fun with his reader and it gave his writing a specific tone. For example, he might say, “they rode in a sleigh all the way to the castle. Now, this wasn’t just any horse cart sleigh mind you…” He would be describing the characters’ situation but then he might write as if he were talking to the reader. This creates an interesting dimension to the telling of the story from the author. You’ll have to decide for yourself what points of view you’ll write in and why.

Show, don’t tell.

Make every effort to show your reader what you are talking about. Don’t always tell them. Instead of saying, “Molly walked angrily away.” You might say, “Molly was fuming. She had never been so offended in all her life. She turned and stomped out of that room so loudly that the children two floors down heard the commotion.”

Only take the time to explain and describe important details to moving the story along and revealing character personalities as you go.

Create multidimensional characters.

Having a character with a name is great, but how do you make them interesting? We make them interesting and multidimensional by making them not static. A static character has no personality and doesn’t do much change. A dynamic character will experience major emotions and will most likely change throughout the story just like a real person does. Another thing that makes a character multidimensional is having character flaws. People in real life are not perfect and this makes them interesting. Make sure your fictional characters have flaws as well when you are writing fiction.

What does my character want?

When creating your fictional character it only makes sense to give them motivations. In order to figure out why they are doing what they’re doing you need to ask yourself, “What does my character want?” “What is their ultimate desire?” Every fictional character has motives. The villain has motives. The main character has motives. They usually go against each other’s goals and motives which is what makes them enemies. Even side characters have motives. Make sure you know what they are, that they make sense, and that the reader knows what they are.

Take your phone or notepad everywhere.

I say take your phone and use the notes app, but just in case you don’t have that the point is to have a writing device whether it is a phone or a pencil on you at all times. Ideas strike out of nowhere most of the time. They happen spur of the moment. You need to be able to write them down immediately when they come. You might think, “it’s okay. I’ll just write it down later.” No! Most often you will forget.

Remember, the pen is sharper than the brain.

Research what you don’t know.

If you want to be better at writing fiction, you must be a pro at research. Let’s say you want to write a good western but don’t know much about the real-life customs of the past. Just look it up. As you are learning, write things down for later. For instance, many cowboys were cattle ranchers. Much of the cow population was actually imported from Spain from Spanish Conquistadors. Did you know that your beef’s ancestry might be from Spain, making all American beef cuisine a Spanish food?

Not all the facts you find will be good for your story, but finding them is important nonetheless.

Do exercise.

If you want to write good fiction your brain needs to be sharp. In order to keep it sharp, you should do regular exercise to keep the blood flow very good to your brain.

Especially back exercises. As a fiction writer, long hours of writing will take their toll on your posture and your back.

Write what you know.

Even though researching what you don’t know is key to coming up with really good fiction by throwing in true facts with the fictional story, writing using your own experiences can be extremely helpful.

If you grew up in foster care, you can write a story about foster care that dives deeper into the reality of it than someone that just does menial research.

If you are a professional scuba instructor, you can write a story about being deep in the ocean better than someone who has never been there and experienced the emotions that come up and why.

Write about what fascinates you.

This doesn’t mean to write just anything. This means that if you find a particular subject fascinating it is likely someone else does too.

Start with something you find interesting and go see if many others find it interesting too. If so you know you can write about it and it will work.

To quote Robert Frost, “No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader.”

If your story doesn’t move you emotionally, it is unlikely to be that inspiring to somebody else. Make sure that your story doesn’t bore you, then you can tell whether it’ll bore someone else. If it isn’t your best, scrap it or rewrite. Give it your best so that it is sure to succeed.

You know you have something really amazing if you can muster the strength to write something traumatic in your life that causes you to tear up when you talk about it.

Hold your reader’s attention.

Hold your reader’s attention by creating questions in your reader’s mind that you will answer later.

Get ready to work.

Writing fiction isn’t easy and will take work. You need discipline and willpower to really get it done. Daydreaming about writing and being a writer is much different than actually sitting down and writing 90,000 words that add up to a good story.

Don’t be afraid to use a thesaurus.

For the most part, you will want to use simple words that don’t distract your reader from the image you are trying to paint them with words, but every now and then you will find a word that works better than words like, “pretty,” “beautiful,” and “bright.”

Take breaks to get fresh eyes.

Read something else or step away from your writing for a day if you need to get a fresher pair of eyes on it. I like to write whatever I’m going to fast and then step away from it and read it later to see with fresh eyes what needs to be edited. Unfortunately, you can never be completely fresh. You wrote it. But this technique is very helpful.

If you get blocked, trace your steps back.

If you’re in the middle of a scene and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere for days sometimes it’s better to work backward and see if there was a different path to take. One that might lead to more interesting possibilities.

Celebrate small achievements.

If you wrote your first 1,000 words that is worth celebrating. If you started to research, that is worth celebrating. If you got out of bed, that is worth celebrating.

Take time to feel good about what you accomplish and press on.

Name your story while you are writing it or before.

It’s important to own your work. Make sure you like the name as you are going because in time you might find it more interesting to be called something else. Don’t waste time on the name, just pick one and let it change as it makes sense.

Eliminate distractions.

Do not surf youtube or Facebook while you are trying to write. Just write and research until you are done for the session or for the day. There is nothing wrong with a 15-minute break, but ten 15-minute breaks are not helpful.

Allow your ideas to change.

Keep the old ideas, but allow things to change. Roddy Doyle once said, “Do change your mind. Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.”

Take a long walk.

Instead of staring at the blank page endlessly, take a walk. Oftentimes a solution will present itself when we walk away.

All authors get stuck.

I don’t care who you are, expect to get stuck. Expect writer’s block. Anticipate these enemies as if they were outside your house and they have guns and they have sworn vengeance on you. Know that they have sworn an oath to never sleep, eat, or drink until they have broken into your mind and stolen all the ideas you think you’ve had. So just anticipate them.

Edit a lot after you’ve finished.

Don’t waste a ton of your time editing the thing until you’ve finished it. And when you do get to the editing process, edit a ton. These should be the moments you really grind out the thing. Do the meaty severe painful work of really giving it its shape and form. Nothing more agonizing and revealing than editing. So don’t waste time editing something you may never finish. Finish it and save the grueling work if you really need to.

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Some of the Best Quotes from Stephen King On Writing

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Some of the Best Quotes from Stephen King On Writing

“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates…or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”

― Stephen King

While I don’t agree with this thought completely I do see one major gold nugget of a thought. Writing is about serving those we write for and helping enrich their lives. If we can think this way, our writing will become extremely valuable to many.

Enjoy these quotes from Stephen King on writing.

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

― Stephen King

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

2. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

3. “…you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

― Stephen King

“…you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

4. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

― Stephen King

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

5. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

― Stephen King

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

6. “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

― Stephen King

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

7. “In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

― Stephen King

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

8. “Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

― Stephen King

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

9. “Just remember that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him. ”

― Stephen King

“Just remember that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

10. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”

― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

11. “So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you…want.”

― Stephen King

“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you…want.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

12. “You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

― Stephen King

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

13. “Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

― Stephen King

“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

14. “Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new…Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

― Stephen King

“Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new…Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

15. “I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”

― Stephen King

“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

16. “I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

― Stephen King

“I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

17. “It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.”

― Stephen King

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

18. “Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don’t have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

― Stephen King

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don’t have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

19. “Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.”

― Stephen King

“Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

20. “The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

― Stephen King

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

21. “Bad writing is more than a matter of…syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”

― Stephen King

“Bad writing is more than a matter of…syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.” ― Stephen King Click to Tweet

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How to Write a Query Letter that Grabs Attention

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How to Write a Query Letter that Grabs Attention

When you have written your book and you start trying to get it published you will want to develop a decent query letter to send to agencies.

What is a query letter?

Writers use query letters to pitch articles to magazines or books to agents and publishers.

If you are self publishing this won’t matter.

But if you want to get published, a query letter is a way to introduce yourself and your book to an agency or editor.

That said, let’s get into some tips and tricks that could help you think through your query letter.

1. Remember they are humans

You’d be amazed at how many writers don’t think about the human element in writing a pitch.

Imagine you were the editor. Imagine you receive 10-20 query letters a day.

How would you want the letter to go?

Would you prefer it start with a nice greeting? Or would you rather just get into the meat?

Everyone is different, but there is an old saying that could apply here, “You get more bees with honey.”

This just means, kindness goes a long way and to begin your letter with a kind greeting and end it with a kind word might help you get a bit further than you think.

Of course, your work will be the major deciding factor, but you wouldn’t want to do anything to not give it an extra shot of making it memorable.

I’d personally want my letter to make the editor think, “I remember this one. Their words actually encouraged me a little last time. I wonder if the pitch hasn’t improved or maybe they came up with a better story idea.”

Don’t go overboard, just think about a pleasant greeting and ending.

2. Don’t make it too much about the backstory

It can be tempting to explain every facet of the story in this pitch, but that would be a mistake.

Just like you wouldn’t want to bore your reader with too much backstory too early, you wouldn’t want to bore the agent with your query either.

You want to wow them with the idea and leave them curious to know more.

Think of it like writing a teaser. With a teaser you literally want them to be left thinking, “what happens next?”

You don’t want to give them everything all at one shot and have them think, “that sounds nice, but it’s probably not for me.”

Don’t give them enough to even make that conclusion for themselves. Just give them enough to want more and then cut them off.

Make them reach out to grab more.

If you can do that to the editor you’re pitching, they’ll believe you can do that to readers.

3. Your first paragraph MUST be gold

Here’s how you check your first paragraph.

Have someone you trust read it or submit it to a writing social media community you are a part of. Make sure it is people that won’t make it fluffy. Find people that will tell it to you straight.

Just give them that first paragraph. Have them read it. And then ask the Golden question: “Where did you get bored?”

If they say they never got bored and wanted to know more, you have won the first battle.

If they say, “I zoned out when you started explaining why the main character was hiding from the bad people.”

Then you know what you have to do in pitching this story.

If the first paragraph ever lets them get bored at any moment whatsoever, you’ve lost. Is game over.

So before you even hit send, be sure that your first paragraph is spectacular. Don’t waste your time or theirs.

4. Cut out the fluff

Write your first query quickly. Leave it for at least an hour. Then come back and read it with fresh eyes.

Is the first paragraph exciting? Yes? Great!

Now into the second paragraph.

Is it just as exciting? No? It’s filled with fluff? Cut it out.

A query letter isn’t all that long. It might be about 3 paragraphs, maybe 4.

So it absolutely cannot have one single lull moment. It cannot have one single dull moment. It has to be immaculate. It has to be perfect.

You get one shot. Don’t blow it. Make sure there is not one single boring sentence.

5. Don’t just assume they’ll read your entire letter

You think they just read the entirety of every pitch that makes it to their desk? Hah! Fat chance!

If they get bored in paragraph one. They won’t read into paragraph two. And just like that, the letter means nothing.

Take your query a sentence at a time. Does sentence one make me want to read sentence two?

Does sentence three make me want to read sentence four? If the answer is no, rewrite sentence 3 or scrap it altogether.

Treat your entire query letter like this and you will be much closer to a full read and an acceptance to take the next step with them.

6. Give interesting details not just details

“The hero fights off the evil corporation to save her family!”

Boring.

“But it has an exclamation point!”

Hah! Be serious.

“Regina and her mother are thrown into another realm where Regina must learn how to use magic or her mother will die.”

Better. Not quite there yet, but definitely better.

You can see the difference. You can give vague details of an interesting story or you can give strategic details of an interesting story.

Don’t shout yourself in the foot by not choosing the right details to give.

Choose words that are more interesting and bear more weight. Choose words that give extra imagery, depth, and meaning.

7. Do this to not give away too much

Remember how I said, write them a teaser but don’t give them the entire thing.

Here is a specific way to do that.

Give them the major conflict, but don’t solve it for them in the query.

The editor wants to know that you know how to do this.

They want to know that you can give a major set up but not give away too much to where the reader feels satisfied with knowing the conclusion.

Maybe hint at a twist, but don’t give up the twist.

If your editor wants to read your story, you win.

Don’t take that opportunity away from yourself by giving away the twist and the resolution to your story to the agent in your query letter. That’s a big “no-no.”

Just like you want to leave your reader wanting more. You want to leave your agent you’re pitching wanting more.

After all they are the ones who have to decide if they actually want to start reading your book or not. Might as well leave them curious to find out how your story resolves.

Does Regina save her mother? Does she make it back to her own world? What does she discover about herself in this new realm?

Want to find out? Read my book. 🙂

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Everything You Need to Know for Writing in Third Person | 11 Tips

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Everything You Need to Know for Writing in Third Person

What is writing in third person point of view?

“In third-person point of view, the author is narrating a story about the characters, referring to them by name, or using the third-person pronouns “he,“” she,” and “they.” The other points of view in writing are first person and second person.” Source.

What does writing in third person mean?

“When you are writing in the third person, the story is about other people. Not yourself or the reader. Use the character’s name or pronouns such as ‘he’ or ‘she’.”

Source.

What are the 3 types of third person point of view?

1. Third-person omniscient point of view:

“The omniscient narrator knows everything about the story and its characters. This narrator can enter any character’s mind, move freely through time, and give the reader their own opinions and observations as well as those of the characters. For example, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is told from a third-person omniscient point of view, giving the reader full access to the main character, Elizabeth, as well as the characters around her.” Source.

2. Third-person limited point of view:

“The third-person limited point of view (often called a “close third”) is when an author sticks closely to a single character but remains in third-person. The narrator can do this for the entire novel or switch between different characters for different chapters or sections. This point of view allows the author to limit a reader’s perspective and control what information the reader knows. It is used to build interest and heighten suspense.” Source.

3. Third-person objective point of view:

“Third-person objective point of view has a neutral narrator that is not privy to any character’s thoughts or feelings. The narrator presents the story with an observational tone. Ernest Hemingway employs this third-person narrative voice in his short story “Hills Like White Elephants.” An unknown narrator relays the dialogue between a couple as they wait for a train in Spain. This point of view puts the reader in the position of a voyeur, eavesdropping on a scene or story.” Source.

Writing in third person examples:

Famous Quotes written in third person:

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”― Robert Frost
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master…” ― William Faulkner
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Lou Holtz

Third person writing in everyday advertising:

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz. Oh, what a relief it is – Alka-Seltzer
The King of Beers – Budweiser
It’s the real thing – Coca-Cola
A diamond is forever – De Beers
The happiest place on earth – Disneyland
It keeps going and going and going – Energizer
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight – FedEx
The Possibilities are Infinite – Fujitsu
The best a man can get – Gillette
It wouldn’t be home without Hellmann’s – Hellman’s
It’s finger lickin’ good – KFC
Nobody can do it like McDonald’s can – McDonald’s
Good to the last drop – Maxwell House
Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline – Maybelline
The greatest tragedy is indifference – Red Cross
Takes a licking and keeps on ticking – Timex

Source.

Third person point of view examples are all around us. We just have to keep an eye-out for them.

Third person writing in Known Literature:

“”What are you doing?” Yossarian asked guardedly when he entered the tent, although he saw at once.”There’s a leak here,” Orr said. “I’m trying to fix it.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22
“Please stop it,” said Yossarian. “You’re making me nervous.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22

“When I was a kid,” Orr replied, “I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22

“Yossarian put aside his musette bag from which he had begun removing his toilet articles and braced himself suspiciously. A minute passed. “Why?” he found himself forced to ask finally.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22

“Orr tittered triumphantly. “Because they’re better than horse chestnuts,” he answered.” – Joseph Heller, Catch 22
“When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him.” – Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
“He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! — so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!” – Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
“He is also handsome,” replied Elizabeth, “which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.” – Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell, 1984
“Their commander was a middle-aged corporal-red-eyed, scrawny, tough as dried beef, sick of war. He had been wounded four times-and patched up, and sent back to war.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets.” – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
“He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train. He went out through the bead curtain. She was sitting at the table and smiled at him.” – Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes”
– Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”

Third person writing academic example:

“Third-person point of view identifies people by proper noun (a given name such as

Ella Clark) or noun (such as teachers, students, doctors, or players) and uses the

pronouns he, she, and they. Third person also includes the use of one, everyone, and

anyone. Most formal, academic writing uses the third person. Note the use of various

third-person nouns and pronouns in the following:

“The bosses at the factory have decided that employees need a day of in-house

training. Times have been scheduled for everyone. Several senior employees will

be required to make five-minute presentations. One is not eager to speak in front of

others since she’s very shy. Another one, however, is anxious to relate her

expertise. The variation in routine should provide an interesting day for all people

concerned.””

Source.

“Use third person for all academic writing:

For formal writing, such as research and argumentative papers, use the third person. Third person makes your writing more objective and less personal. For academic and professional writing, this sense of objectivity allows the writer to seem less biased and, therefore, more credible.[1]

Third person helps the writing stay focused on facts and evidence instead of personal opinion.”

Source.

How to write in third person about yourself.

Even though third person speaks about others and doesn’t use the pronouns I or we, how do I write about myself in third person?

Just use a story or event that you experienced and give the character you are following (yourself) a different name and write about that character as if you were talking about someone else. “Jimmy went to the park. He rode his bike there. On the way, he crashed. He had to go to the ER.” Even if those events really happened to you, you were still able to write about your true to life experiences in the third person.

Tips and Tricks for Writing in Third Person:

1. Create a narrator’s voice

When writing in third person, speak with authority. Show your reader that the narrator’s voice is trustworthy. Give them the inner thoughts of at least one character. The main narrator voice you use will give them the idea that you are in-the-know and can carry them well through the events to come.

2. Make sure to use the right pronouns

“Third person pronouns include: he, she, it; his, her, its; him, her, it; himself, herself, itself; they; them; their; themselves.”

Source.

3. If you choose third person objective point of view the narrator doesn’t know what anyone is thinking

If you choose this point of view remember that you are just an observer. You will have to make a point to work harder on conveying the emotions each character is experiencing. The reader won’t get to hear the inner feelings and thoughts of any of the characters. That makes it really important to emphasize the right character facial expressions and describe them adequately but not overdo it.

4. Be aware of singular and plural pronoun use.

“Incorrect example: “The witness wanted to offer anonymous testimony. They’ were afraid of getting hurt if their name was spread.”

“Correct example: “The witness wanted to offer anonymous testimony. He or she was afraid of getting hurt if his or her name was spread.”

Source.

5. If you write in third person limited you only know what the protagonist knows

If you write in third person limited, remember that you are limited by the same knowledge that the main character you are following knows. Be strategic with this and give the reader the same feelings the protagonist has at their limited knowledge of the events befalling them.

6. Avoid slipping into other points of view

It is easy while you are writing to accidentally and mindlessly slip into first and second person point of view.

When you go back to edit, keep this in mind and watch out for any accidental “I” or “you” statements.

7. Understand that there are 3 types

Be sure to glance up at the top of this post and see that there are 3 different types of third person point of views. Choose wisely as you begin your story which one you would like to limit yourself to or not limit to.

My personal favorite to date is definitely third person omniscient. I like being able to say whatever whenever and even break down the third wall at times just for fun.

8. Watch your pronouns and be consistent

Whichever style you choose to start out, stick with it. Be consistent or it may take away from the story if you jump in and out of multiple points of view. (I would say multiple points of view is possible, but only for the right kind of story.)

9. You can use second and first person in dialogue

Don’t forget to use your character’s dialogue to its full advantages. “I’m tired,” “I’m hungry,” “can we slow down?” “Is it hot or is it just me?” “You’re a liar!” “You melt my heart and soul.”

Just because you can’t say “you” or “I” doesn’t mean your character can’t. Just because your character doesn’t know how someone is feeling, doesn’t mean that character can’t say it out loud at the appropriate times to give your reader an inside look at another character’s personality.

10. Have a strategy for when you switch viewpoints

In the movie “Wonder,” they do an awesome job of switching viewpoints strategically and at pivotal moments.

This does a lot for the audience. We are surprised to get to go into the life of another character and get to know them intimately just like we did the main character.

11. Follow the character with the most weight

If you have a dynamic cast of characters, how do you choose which one to follow?

Margaret Atwood would say, “When choosing which character will serve as your main point of view for any chapter or scene, hone in on the person who has the most to lose or learn.”

This might change depending on what part of the plot you are headed into, but if it just follows one or two characters the entire time choose the one that has the most to lose.

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How to Add Surprise to Your Stories That’ll Make Your Readers Love You | 3 Examples

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How to Add Surprise to Your Stories That’ll Make Your Readers Love You

We all love a good twist, but sometimes the foundation of a story is where the real magic lurks.

What gave you the idea that started your story? Did it have a surprise in it that would cause your reader to burst into laughter if you told them about it?

There is a surprising amount of power behind giving your audience a good surprise. (See what I did there?)

As readers, we love to be surprised. Sometimes surprise shocks us. Sometimes it makes us laugh. Whatever it is we enjoy the emotion we are experiencing.

As writers we need to hone this craft of finding good surprises to give to our audience and the best way to do it is to keep an eye out for them. As you read, consume, and walk around in your daily life there is excellent inspiration in plain sight for you to add to your media that can surprise your audience in fun ways.

Here are some examples and explanations that will hopefully help you come up with great story ideas that have the foundational note of surprise.

Example 1:

“You are one of the world’s greatest bakers. Customers ask daily what your secret is. You always tote back, “the secret ingredient is Love of course!” With a giant grin. But deep down you hate baking and you hate all the customers too. Your real secret ingredient is hate.”

To be honest, I didn’t come up with this writing prompt. I read it somewhere. But it actually made me laugh out loud by myself, sitting in a room alone staring at my phone screen.

When this happens to me, it makes me reflect on the moment. What just made me have that reaction?

It was the surprise.

But here’s what makes the story prompt and its twist so genius. It plays off of something all of us have heard a million or so times, “I made these cookies with love!”

Take this in. Look for ideas like that. Ones that you hear often and twist them to give them a surprise your audience isn’t expecting.

Avoid inside jokes. If only you and two of your friends know about it. It won’t be as powerful to evoke emotion (unless you can bring your readers into it as well). But otherwise, stay away from inside things.

Look for common everyday occurrences that everybody hears or knows about.

“2020 Canceled”

“Mansplaining”

“Snowflakes”

“Riots”

“Trump rallies”

BREAKING NEWS: THIS JUST IN: “The 2020 mansplaining snowflakes canceled the remaining trump rallies. Peace in the Galaxy restored!”

“Wait, wait! I’m getting something! THIS JUST IN: Kamala quoted, “Biden not fit for presidency,” declares war on the Biden’s!”

Now, let’s be honest, this isn’t the most amazing piece of satire, but if you’ve seen anything political this year, it makes a point and uses surprise to do it.

It uses satire to poke fun at both sides and then “peace is finally achieved!” You would think everyone would be happy and go on with their day and enjoy peace, but not politicians. They almost always seem to be looking for a leg up the political ladder.

So surprise! The new President and Vice President of the satire declare war on each other for top dog spot.

Look for things like this where a majority of the world experiences it and add a surprise twist to it for your readers to enjoy.

Example 2:

“You’ve had the same sweet little nanny for 10 years now. You love her. She’s like a second mother to you. Recently though as you were leaving school you see her hand a baggy to one of the kids at your school and drive away in a red Ferrari.”

Why does this prompt work? It plays off of something a lot of people know and love: the sweet nanny figure. (Not everyone has or had a nanny, but have you at least seen the tv show? Or worked as a nanny? Or know someone that had a nanny?)

She’s kind, gentle, always loving. We assume innocence.

We would never expect her to be doing anything possibly illegal. And since when did she make enough money to drive a Ferrari?

It makes the reader curious because it plays off a seemingly innocent character in our society.

Story writers have been doing this for years with teachers, janitors, presidents, priests, pastors, moms, dads, grandparents.

Anyone you inherently trust as a child is at risk to become a surprisingly flawed character in a story.

Example 3:

“Just because she goes to work all day and I sit around the house doesn’t mean she has the right to come home and beat me. She thinks I’m lazy and good for nothing. She thinks I don’t know how to take care of myself. She thinks I’m a leech and a stain on society.

She doesn’t know that I’m actually quite a hard worker. If she’d let me outside more I can dig holes really fast. I always tell her right away when the evil intruder comes down the driveway to leave his trash at our front door. I make sure the evil cats and squirrels don’t get anywhere near our house. I don’t have opposable thumbs so I can’t always open the door for myself, but at least I’m polite enough to go in a corner where no one will step in it.”

The reason this works is because you start off explaining something as if it’s someone else entirely. You give woods and clues that lead the reader astray on purpose.

At first, I was describing what a lazy man that chooses not to work might say about his wife, and the fact that she beat him is meant to steer their emotions even further into the charade.

But then you have to find a way to make them start to question what they believed about what you first said. This is a fun moment for readers. They think, “Oh wait. Is that really what I thought it was. Make them curious with lines like, “she thinks I don’t know how to take care of myself,” and “If she’d let me outside I can dig holes really fast.”

Surprise! We’re not talking about what you thought we were!

Use language that means one thing but don’t spell it out for them. Say it in such a way that their brain wheels have to turn to try to figure it out.

That’s what many readers want. They want to be given a puzzle that over time will be given more and more clues until finally, they think they’ve solved it and then you reveal the true answer and it is a surprise.

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5 Inspiring Quotes for Motivation to Write

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5 Inspiring Quotes for Motivation to Write

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

Toni Morrison

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

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Get out there and write something.

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

Stephen King

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Most great writers were first great readers.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf

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Don’t worry about what they’ll think. Let them do the thinking. You just worry about the writing.

“…every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

Mark Twain

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Keep it simple. Tell the story.

Use writing quotes to inspire your writing.

Be persistent and finish the project.

Search for nuggets of wisdom to apply to your writing ideas and habits.

Don’t be afraid to be a little different and think outside the box.

When you get an idea go ahead and write it down somewhere. It might just stay an idea forever or one day it may become a book and then a play and a movie or a toy. You just never know.

If you don’t write it down it’ll never even be an idea.

Hopefully, these writing quotes will help inspire you towards your next great writing prompt or ideas.

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How to Get Published: Professional Story Editor Reveals Why Stories Get Rejected on Page One

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How to Get Published: Professional Story Editor Reveals Why Stories Get Rejected on Page One

I happened upon this golden nugget of wisdom on Reddit about how to get published. This bit of writing advice applies to fiction writing, short stories, novels, and books.

Some of the information you can find on Reddit is complete nonsense, but from time to time a real gold nugget pops out. This one was indeed real gold. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂

A professional story editor made a post recently where they revealed why stories get rejected on page one.

A quote from them, “I’m a professional editor for pro-rated magazines and contests. I read sometimes hundreds of stories a month and have noticed common mistakes that have held them back from moving out of the slush pile.”

1. To get published “Slow or vacant openings” won’t do

This is explained as an opening to the story where the reader isn’t given a hook. The author gives them nothing to sink their teeth into.

The writer spends more time setting up the setting and the characters than giving the reader some part of the plot that hooks the reader’s curiosity.

This advice does not just apply to grabbing a reader’s attention on page one. This advice lets us know that if we intend to hand our writing to an editor, they are going to decide within minutes whether or not our story even makes it out of the “slush pile” based on whether our page one hook exists and if it’s good.

This is huge for writers to know.

Know this, if you want to even get out of the get you have to develop the skill of creating a hook on page one and making it a good one.

Forget about description, word crafting, and world setting for a moment. How are your hook creating skills? Because apparently, they matter a lot.

There is a temptation to use amazing words and flare to start out your story and describe your world. Save this type of writing for the journals you make about your fictional world. When it comes to actually getting published, work on your hook. Make sure it drives curiosity and make sure it’s on page one.

If you want a quick study, open up any James Patterson book. Read the first page, or even just the first paragraph. You can learn a ton about quick good hooks just by opening five of his books and reading just the first page of each one.

This exercise will take you thirty minutes max and you will be better at writing hooks today.

2. Pay attention to why the reader is here

Why did the reader pick up your book? Why did they buy it? Why do they look for good stories?

Most readers didn’t go looking for a good story to read pages and pages of description and or someone showing off all the pretty words they know.

Most readers pick up books because they want to solve a crime or figure out a puzzle. They want to follow a great character on an adventure. They want to see a character fall into trouble and see if they find their way out.

Why is the editor even looking through what we’ve written? Because they want to see if readers will enjoy reading it.

So what have we done on page one to convince the editor that readers will enjoy what we’ve written?

If we want to get published or even considered we have to wrap our minds around why readers look for stories.

Are we giving them what they are looking for?

Now, I want to qualify here that no one is bashing a cool fictional world that readers can escape into and fall in love with and want to visit.

The thing is, the writers that made them made sure to move the story along and make the fictional story interesting as they described the fictional world, its rules, and fun artifacts that characters use to interact with the world and find solutions for their problems.

And that is one major key reason why certain books get published and others don’t. The writer found a way to create interesting problems for interesting characters in an intriguing setting in a fascinating fictional world.

If we want our stories to be considered even if they are short or novels, we have to keep this in mind.

Imagine you bought a movie ticket. You head in to watch a good movie you’ve been anticipating for months. You sit down with your popcorn and your soda and the credits start to roll and on the screen suddenly the director pops up and says, “We’re so excited you’re here! Before the movie plays I wanted to take a moment to describe the world and setting you’re about to embark into!”

You’d be thinking, “What the?! What’s going on? This is awful! I don’t want to hear him describe the world, I want to see it! I want to experience it through the story.”

Don’t do this to your reader. Give them what they want. Give them a good story and use the world and setting to tell it.

3. Don’t hold the cards too close to your chest

This would mean, if you want your story to be considered for publishing, don’t keep all the secrets and hidden things from your audience.

Figure out a way to give and take.

What do you mean give and take?

Give an answer, take a question.

Maybe it would be better to say give and drop. Give a solution to a clue and drop another clue that needs to be answered.

The editor shared something really important here though.

You have to earn your readers trust.

4. To get published you MUST earn your reader’s trust

How do you earn their trust?

When you create a question or a clue or a secret that needs an answer.

Be 100% sure that you eventually answer that question.

This is a major way that authors gain and lose points with readers.

Think about it.

You have your choice between reading two books.

Both are written amazingly. They both have great hooks, great worlds, great characters and really interesting plots.

The only difference is, one is going to create a bunch of teasing questions to peak your curiosity but will never answer all of them.

The other is going to answer ALL the questions they start.

Which one would you want to invest your time in?

If you are going to drop secrets on your opening page, make sure you also drop an answer so that your reader will instantly trust you to reveal your secrets.

This one fact usually makes the difference between an author we reread and an author we drop.

5. Best practice is to make sure you have character, setting, and a problem the character is going to confront right out of the gate on page one

Say what?!

You might think that’s crazy, but go reread the first pages of some of your favorite published books. Without fail, most of them will have done a good job of introducing a main character and a major problem right off the bat.

Being able to hone this skill will make you one of the best writers on the market.

If you can learn the secret of introducing these major story things on page one you will be well on your way to being published.

Whether it is short stories, novels, children’s books, YA fiction, or magazine contests, you must be able to give the readers and the editors exactly what they have said they are looking for. And do your best to give it to them quickly on page one.

Quote from the editor, “If you can fit it into the first line, you are a pro and people would literally kill for your skills.”

6. It’s not about the money, it’s about the time

These days readers don’t care as much about the money it costs to buy books, magazines, and other content.

They really care about their time and if you are going to waste it.

One way to prove to them right away that you aren’t going to waste their time is if you can deliver all the things discussed above.

This is especially true if you can give them a character, a story, a problem, and a problem solved all before lunchtime. If you can give them this in an expertly wrapped package, they’ll buy everything you can put out. Ask James Patterson who according to google is putting out at least 10 books a year.

Keep this in mind. Readers are constantly looking for a good story that is enjoyable and that they can tell their friends and family about. If you just give it to them, they’ll come back for more.

Don’t overcomplicate the publishing process and don’t try to rage against it. If it doesn’t fulfill your writing desires, that’s fine. Start a blog or a writing club and write for them, but if we really want to be published, this is the way we do it. By giving the readers what they want.

Don’t forget, as writers, we are in the entertainment business.

Don’t waste their time and they will 100% give you their money.

(And don’t get us wrong here. It’s not “all about the money.” The point is, “it’s not about the money.” It’s about not wasting your reader’s time. And at the end of the day, who are you trying to serve? Yourself? Or the reader?)

7. But my setting and world is really fascinating

Many writers fight back against this “get to the interesting part of the story fast” advice. They might say, “my world is super fascinating and everyone will love it. They just need to give it a chance and give me time to explain it.”

This may be 100% true. The world in your mind is probably awesome and readers really would love it.

The hard truth is, with all that is going on every day barely anyone will give you past page one (if even that much) to find out if your fictional world is worth publishing.

It has been said by a professional editor that they barely look past page one to see if we are going to give them an interesting hook to grab readers’ attention.

So while I totally believe you, that your fictional world is worth looking into I also have to give you good advice here.

Instead of focusing on how cool the world is, focus on giving them an interesting character and problem to solve and work on weaving the fictional world and how amazing it is in small bites over time in the story.

If you can use the world, the setting, the items, and characters weaving them into the story and making them work together in harmony you will not only give your reader a great story, but you will give them a really cool world they can love and enjoy.

8. Make your sentences DO more

What is meant by the writing advice “make your sentences do more?”

It means to choose each sentence carefully to carry your reader along in the story.

Avoid “exposition dumps” early in your story. If you want to do a big description, ask yourself, “do I NEED to do a big description section?”

In order to make our sentences do more, the only reason we would need to do a paragraph of description is because it matters to moving the story along.

In some circumstances there will be a time and place where describing will make more sense, but especially at the beginning of your story, make each sentence do more.

9. Learn how to blend your story, actions, characters with your setting descriptions

Many writers suffer from not knowing how to blend all these story elements in a way that carries the reader along in the story but also gives the reader a good view of the fictional world they are in.

Think of it like a trail you’re walking on in order to get to a beautiful view. Part of the trail has fun stops, but in the end, you are actually on the trial to see something amazing. You are there for the little parts of the journey, but you are mostly there for the climactic moment, the big view you are going to see at the end.

When you are starting a trek usually at the beginning you’re not stopping for much of anything. The beginning of the trail can be a little boring. In the same way, you want to give your readers something to look forward to at the beginning of your story and keep them moving forward toward the interesting stuff.

Remember just in like a walking trail you don’t stop much, you keep moving forward. With that in mind let’s take a look at reasons to stop. Sometimes you see a creature worth looking at. There might be a great spot to take a picture. But if you are trekking towards a greater view you won’t stop for long and you’ll keep moving toward the climax.

Along the way in our story we are going to be moving the story forward when we stop to show the reader an item that matters for the main character then we move forward. Then we show the reader a scene that the main character is seeing, but we continue to move forward. Then we show the reader a creature that the main character uses later on in the story to solve a problem, but we continue forward to the climax.

If we view our story as a trek that has the ultimate goal of making it to the climax and resolving the main world crisis or problem than we don’t run into as many problems by taking moments to explain scenery, objects, or creatures that are not just awesome, fun, and amazing, but that is in fact important to the story.

This is how we blend the story, characters, objects, creatures, and setting into one magical journey.

We need to view our story as a trail we are walking our reader through, not as a place or an excuse to explain our fictional world. They come expecting a good story in an interesting world, not just an interesting world.

Final Thoughts:

If you want to get past the “slush pile” and have a chance of getting published as an author whether in a magazine, children’s book, novel, short story, or fictional story:

Your opening is pivotal
No slow openings
Give the reader what they came for
Gain your reader’s trust quickly by answering some questions your create right away
Work on getting your character, setting, and major problem out right away. Preferably the first sentence
Don’t waste your reader’s time
Your fictional world is interesting, but use it to carry your story along
Keep moving forward

I think the professional editor actually summed these points up very well in their golden Reddit post by saying, “Using the techniques listed above and making sure to introduce your character, world, and problem/crisis within the first page will enhance your openings. This in turn leads to more sales, acceptances, and readers.”

If you want to be published you need to be the type of writer that knows how to entertain readers, editors, and publishers and you do that by paying particular attention to page one.

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Pen Name Generator

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Pen Name Generator

Finding the perfect pen name isn’t as easy as 1-2-3. With a pen name generator, it can make your decision much easier and you won’t be left staring at a blank screen alone with no hope in sight.

This resource is from Reedsy.com and we thought it was fun and handy!

“Pen Name Generator”

“Choose from over a million pen names

Kickstart your writing career with this pen name generator that boasts over 1 million fake names. Search through the pseudonyms using filters such as language, gender, or first letter until you find the right nom de plume for you.” -Reedsy.com

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We wanted to make this awesome Pen Name Generator more easily available to our audience.

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8 Working from Home Tips | Bring Up Work from Home Productivity Today

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

8 Working from Home Tips | Bring Up Work from Home Productivity Today

As a freelance writer, I started working from home years ago.

Since then I’ve picked up some work from home tips and tricks I’d like to share with you today.

It afforded my wife and I the flexibility we wanted during the first years of our marriage to travel a bit and experience different places.

We made many sacrifices, but all in all I would say it was well worth it. We never made it big or became wealthy. We just lived and tried to do what was important to us.

One thing I didn’t realize until later, (hindsight is 20/20) is that it took me about two years, maybe even more, to figure out working from home productivity and a good work/life balance.

That realization surprised me.

It took that long to feel like I had an effective schedule?! Absolutely.

And some days still feel inefficient.

Now, suddenly, with the pandemic 😷 , it feels like the entire world has joined me in working from home.

The amount of online working from home jobs has skyrocketed. I used to feel like an oddball. Now I feel like saying, “Welcome to the club!”

And you might be feeling like you’re being less productive at home, but check this out.

“A recent study by Stanford of 16,000 workers over 9 months found that working from home increased productivity by 13%. This increase in performance was due to more calls per minute attributed to a quieter more convenient working environment and working more minutes per shift because of fewer breaks and sick days.” – Source.

I really enjoy working from home. I like to be able to choose what projects I take on. I can listen to music or have the TV on in the background while I accomplish them (even if it takes more time and when I’m not working for a client of course).

I like to choose which days I allow myself to work in pajamas. I like being able to choose where I get work done in the house. I like to choose when my lunch break is or if to skip it and keep working.

Basically, I enjoy being able to choose right now.

And who knows what will happen in the future, but right now these are some of the things I enjoy.

Things I don’t love about working from home:

I don’t do much client work right now, but when I did, I didn’t always enjoy wondering where each paycheck would come from.

I don’t always enjoy working alone. I miss the ability to work with others sometimes, but to be honest I work pretty hard to have a better social life because I work from home and make up for that.

I didn’t enjoy the feeling of performing for different clients and wondering if they were going to like my work every day.

If I’m honest, most of what I didn’t enjoy about working from home stemmed from client work. Now that I have my own blog and I’m writing for myself, most of the things I didn’t like are gone.

But something that took me A LOT longer than I would have otherwise expected was a good work from home/life balance. This directly ties into being productive at home and working from home.

When you work from home, if you’re not careful, it can be very easy to muddle it all together and be less productive.

So here are some working from home tips that I hope help you learn how to be productive at home and sort through it better and faster than I did.

Hopefully this helps your work from home productivity go up!

1. Create a Separated Place

If you really want to work from home effectively you MUST create a separate space to do that work.

It is ever so tempting to try to work from the couch in front of the TV. Bad idea, soon it’ll be 3 hours later and you’ll only be 30 minutes into your project. Instead of enjoying work from home, it’ll make it feel as though the workday never ends.

There is a work from home negative phenomenon that occurs when you try to do things you enjoy too much while working too. This leaves us with negative emotions/feelings of loss instead of what we would think would be feelings of enjoyment and success.

It’s better just to go somewhere else and get the work done fast. You will feel the highs of accomplishment and then you will feel the freedom of enjoying a good book, show, or whatever after.

Separate your space of work from everything else going on in the house if you can.

2. Schedule Out No Interruption Time

In the workplace, it mostly makes sense that you can get your work done and most people won’t interrupt you because everyone is working too.

When you work from home, this ideology fragments and changes radically.

The people who are able to contact you are your family (spouse, kids, people that knock on your door, kids’ friends, extended family, etc.)

These kinds of friendly interruptions can really mess with your work from home productivity.

This situation is helped by having a separate place for work, but what is also more necessary than you might think is a slot of time; otherwise, the people near you won’t know your expectations.

To work from home effectively listen to this.

Take a spouse relationship for example. Normally a spouse is at home, you’re at work, the microwave busts and they wait till you get home to tell you about it.

Well, now you’re just in the other room. All they have to do is walk over and tell you. This can create unnecessary tension if you’re both expecting something different.

So instead just make the expectation clear. Say, “from 1-5 p.m. I can’t be interrupted,” or something like that.

I used to have to take client calls and I figured out that was a bad time to be interrupted, thus I would say something cheeky like, “I have a client call at 1, so I’ll see ya later! Love you! Bye!” And then walked upstairs as I had left the building.

Similarly, when we lived in a villa in Florida, the space was small and open. My work spot was set up in the same room as the TV but in a spot that couldn’t see the TV. If I had a project where I was paid for time instead of a flat fee, I would say something like, “I have to work for two hours, I’ll see you later.” Then pop on noise-canceling headphones. This really helped me get work done effectively.

We would both pretend I wasn’t there, even though we could literally see each other.

Finding ways to separate workspace and work time will benefit you tremendously in the long run if you make the habit and expectation at the beginning rather than being passive about it.

Don’t be passive about work from home expectations. If you live with others make sure to talk about what is going to help you all balance your work from home effectiveness and daily life expectations at home.

3. Finding It Difficult to Stay Focused

Let’s just be upfront and honest. Yes, the temptation to be distracted will never go away and you will have to continue to fight it. Your work from home productivity depends on it.

And for this reason alone, working from home isn’t the solution for everyone.

But there are some ways to help yourself stay focused depending on your line of work.

A. Hard candy

Having a bag of jolly ranchers or other hard candy is actually surprisingly helpful when it comes to staying focused.

They aren’t great for your teeth though, so watch out 🦷

B. Listen to wordless music

Listening to music without words can trick your brain into staying on task and enjoying the task more than just having silence.

Thankfully the world has created more study music than just Mozart.

C. There’s an App for That

There are many apps that create focus sounds and music that you can try out and see what helps you.

D. Exercise and healthy snacks

Boo! We don’t want to hear it!

I know, I know, we don’t want it to be true but the science is out and the truth is if you have a regular 30 minutes a day exercise and enjoy healthy snacks like carrots and apples these things will help your brain stay more focused throughout the day and less foggy.

Snacking between meals can create hours of productivity where we aren’t distracted by hunger.

And “one study showed that workday exercise, not only improves well-being but participants noted a 72 percent improvement in time management and workload completed on days when they exercised.” Also, “Low-intensity aerobic exercise is more effective than high-intensity exercise for improving productivity.” Source.

(Don’t shoot! I’m just the messenger! And look I brought snacks 👉🍏🥕 😁)

4. Take Field Trip

You: “To the Zoo?!” 😀

Me: “No.”

“To the library or local coffee shop to work.”

“I shouldn’t have to remind you, this isn’t a post about fun things to do with your family. It’s a post about working better from home.”

You: “Oh…right.”

Seriously though, it is so helpful sometimes to just get out of the house and find somewhere else to do work around other humans who are also working.

Coffee shops are great. Libraries are slightly better (in my opinion) for productivity.

Coffee shops are great because the environment can make you feel good. You feel less lonely. You can order a drink and sip in the warmth and environment as you pluck away at your keyboard.

Libraries are better because the environment is much less distracting. You are with other people, but they are all quiet. In college, I didn’t want to always work alone so I spent lots of crucial time finishing projects in the library.

As a freelance writer, I found it very enjoyable to work from coffee shops with headphones to change things up and get out of the monotony of working from the same space alone all the time.

5. I Feel Lonely Working From Home

This is a real problem that a lot of people are working through right now.

I already mentioned some ideas that will help but I wanted to bring up the problem because it’s a big one and it’s prevalent.

Not everyone can go to a coffee shop right now.

Reach out to others however you can in your specific situation.

Because of the pandemic, I recently connected with friends over Marco Polo, the video app and we’ve kept it going ever since. I’m really grateful for that.

Reach out to people on Reddit, in Facebook groups, at coffee shops, online, however, you can. You’d be surprised at how the world is reacting.

I was just reading a Reddit post the other day where someone was asking for book ideas when you’re falling lonely and the response was extremely encouraging. Some people were even offering to be Reddit pen pals just so others won’t feel lonely during these times.

One of the biggest health problems with working from home will be mental loneliness. Find ways to fight against that as best you can. I can say from personal experience that it is painfully true and I had to do things to try and not feel lonely even before the pandemic hit.

Going to coffee shops and reaching out to people helped me. I don’t know what’ll work best for you, but hopefully, this at least lets you know you’re not alone and that you can and should reach out to people.

If you or someone you know is fighting loneliness, especially during the Pandemic this offers some help: Fighting Loneliness in the Coronavirus Outbreak

6. Make Long Term and Short Term Goals

Many businesses are just now figuring out what it means to have employees working from home.

This means they have no clue how to give their people tasks and keep them motivated to do them.

For those that aren’t naturally self-disciplined or learn better from human interaction and hands-on teaching, this is going to be a huge hurdle for the business and the workers.

For your own projects, if your company hasn’t gone ahead and set up goals for yourself.

A. Set up long term goals

I want to have this project finished within 6 months.

So the next question is, how do I break this project into parts so that I have it finished by then?

B. Set up medium term goals

Work your way back wards and figure out how many weeks and days it’ll take to finish.

If I wanted to write 100,000 words in the next 3 months I’d have to write about 33,333 words a month.

C. Set up short term goals or daily goals

If I want to write 33,333 words a month I need to write about 1,111 words a day.

By setting up goals this way now I can know what I need to get done each day. I know how much I need to catch up if I get behind.

At my month’s end, I can re-evaluate where I am at and how things went on a daily basis.

I can say whether I can easily achieve more words a day or if I’m being unrealistic with my 6-month goal and I need to rethink my daily goals.

This way is an easy way to know where you’re at and where you need to be. You can easily assess progress and evaluate. You can feel good about what you get done on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

You can address problems on a daily basis that will immediately affect your long term strategy.

7. Wellness Tips While Working from Home

Be to get regular exercise and eat healthy snacks to keep your brain sharp and your stress levels down.

Having clear expectations set out at the beginning will help keep stress levels down with spouses and children. (Of course, there will be moments and days and even weeks where those expectations won’t work out.) Keep that in mind and push forward. What works for others might not work for you and your family. But do take time to figure it out so that unnecessary stress can hopefully be avoided.

Loneliness is definitely something to watch out for. When you work from home, seeing your team over Zoom isn’t the same as actual face to face human interaction. Do yourself a wellness favor and get out of the house and work somewhere around other humans on certain days. When you have time, go out for dinner with someone or find communities to be able to get human interaction. It is shocking how much this changes when you stop working in a space with other people.

We take for granted working with others until there is no one around and this can directly affect your emotional well-being.

8. Consider Your Back

If you work from home now or you’ve worked in an office chair for any amount of time, you already know where I’m headed with this.

You might want to consider getting an ergonomic chair or an ergonomic mouse. (Logitech is my favorite brand so far.)

You might also want to consider investing in a standing desk. One that moves up or down with you would be ideal. Standing once an hour or every two hours can really help with your blood flow, overall feelings, and posture.

If you are able to keep your back from hurting (which is quite the battle) it will definitely affect your work from home productivity.

Final thoughts:

One of the biggest challenges of working from home is being able to separate work time from home time.

When you’re working just work then when you’re done turn work off and just be at home.

When you’re working don’t have social media and other tabs open on your computer. Close those out.

When you’re working turn off non-work notifications. Don’t let your computer and phone ping you whenever they feel like it.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you can enjoy all the comforts of home and work t at the exact same time.

If you try to do everything at once you will be left feeling lousy, unaccomplished, and unmotivated.

Whereas on the other hand if we just force ourselves to separate our work and home life we will feel that much more accomplished and better about our work-life balance

Even though we work from home let’s not fall into the trap of thinking we can work and home at the same time.

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List of Best 10 Uncommon Mythical Creatures

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

List of Best 10 Uncommon Mythical Creatures

Every continent has its own list of mythical and legendary creatures.

Some are good and kind while others are terrifying and malicious. Some are more common but we would say that these are uncommon mythical creatures. Let us know which ones you’ve heard of and if you have used them in a story before or seen them anywhere else.

1Wendigo

Seen Supernatural anyone. This creature actually appeared in one of the first episodes of the show. It may have even been the pilot.

The Wendigo is a scary mythical creature. It is extremely fast, so getting away will be difficult. It is thought that the wendigo was once a human that fed off of other humans to survive and thus it has been cursed into becoming the nasty beast it is today that hunts down humans and feeds on them. It is very grotesque.

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2Leshy

Some would describe it as a fairy. It appears in season 5 of Supernatural. It can be good or bad to run into one of these unassuming creatures. It can take many forms. If you are a bad person it may treat you badly and even feed on you. But there is also lore that it is kind to outcast and will lead them to safe haven.

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3Lou Carcolh

This creature is thought to be of French descent, but don’t confuse it with escargot. It is a giant snake-like snail creature. It may not show up in many TV shows but it’s size is legendary for all snail-kind. And to make matters worse, it has tentacles for grabbing its victims.

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4Peluda

Not much is known about the Peluda. It also hails from France. This beast is a mixture of creatures. It has the feet of reptiles. It has the neck, head, and tail of a snake, but it’s body is covered in fur. Some may even think it can breathe fire. Stay away from this mythical brute and definitely stay clear of its fangs.

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5Caladrius

If you are finding yourself in Rome, look this Legendary bird up and keep it on speed dial. This creature can take your illness from you, essentially healing you. It then carries you sickness to the sun where the illness is burned away. Very handy if your health insurance has lapsed.

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6Cadejo

It’s a 50/50 split on this legendary creature. It appears as a wolf. Half of the time it is good and will lead you to your desired safe haven if you are a traveller. The other half of the time it is evil and will lead lost travellers to their doom.

I think I would just stay away from this Central American creature and ask someone else for directions.

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7Ghillie Dhu

This is a mountain spirit with a love for children. Not a creepy love but a benevolent care. This creature will appear to lost children and lead them out of the woods to safety.

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8Baku

The Baku originates from Japanese folklore. It is a dream eater. It mostly eats bad dreams, but beware if you wake up while it’s around because it might get angry and decide to eat your good dreams too. Let it eat the bad stuff and leave. Pretend you’re still asleep no matter how loud the slurping noise is that it makes.

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9Aqrabuamelu

These giants are the guardians of certain mesopotamian gods. They also serve as giant good creatures that warn weary travelers of danger. But if you happen to be that danger look out. One look from them can cause death.

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10Kelpie

Is this a seahorse? Well, yes and no. These horses may ride underwater but they’re definitely not an ordinary seahorse. They are water spirits in Scotland. They can appear at any body of water and take you across quickly or even save you from drowning.

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