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Writer’s Guilt and What to do About It 8 Tips

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Writer’s Guilt and What to do About it.

Writer’s guilt is when you feel guilty for not writing.

Let’s say you’re watching a show when you know you could be writing, and then you feel guilty about it. Is this good or bad?

You decide to go to the movies with friends when you know that you could be writing and then you feel guilty about it. Should you feel bad about this?

Get a balance.

As a writer, I personally don’t think you should be writing every free second of your day. You should have a balance.

If you can you should try to get in the habit of writing 500 to 2,000 words a day. I say 500 because that would be the bare minimum for a bad day and 2,000 because some days the words are just flowing real easy.

It doesn’t mean you can’t go over or under that (everyone has their good writing number and bad writing number and after practicing writing for some time you easily figure out what yours is), but after spending some time writing you should really try to do other things with your time.

Even professional writers take time off and do other things that make them feel good about being alive.

The professional author Haruka Murakami has a daily practice of writing for 4-6 hours a day, but after that, he has a daily regimen of other things he likes to do and other things that he feels help keep him healthy and sharp.

Just like you try to have a work/ life balance you should have a writer’s life balance.

Spend a chunk of time writing and then move on with your day to accomplish other things and build relationships too. It’s healthy.

Rest from your writing.

It’s important to take breaks from writing. Creativity isn’t a never-ending well. We need to take a rest from the creative process.

Ways that we can rest from it is not doing it. Also, we rejuvenate our creativity by consuming other creative things.

Reading books, watching movies, watching shows, things like this help bolster our creative process.

Taking a walk and getting fresh air can help us solve a scene problem. Talking with friends and family can give us extra ideas for dialogue and the way other people say things.

Too much and you might experience burnout.

Writing excessively and for too long can lead to writer’s burnout.

You can get yourself to a place where writing is the last thing you ever want to do again and eventually I’m pretty sure you would just ignore it altogether and might not write anything for months or years.

You might even quit altogether because you pushed yourself too hard and that would be sad.

You will be able to produce more if you give yourself a reasonable daily pace. 1,000 words is a reasonable daily goal. In two months you will have about 60,000 words and that is a very good and reasonable goal.

When you put yourself into a sprint mode where you want to write 5,000 to 10,000 words a day. It is extremely draining and it’s hard for anyone to keep up that pace.

They say it is easier to avoid burnout than to come back from it. I can’t agree with this sentiment more.

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Take time to see how others make stories and don’t feel guilty all it.

It’s important to realize that when we are taking in other stories (movies, tv, games, shows, books, talking to people) our brains are still working and they are doing the work of internalizing stories.

We shouldn’t feel guilty about this in relation to being a storyteller and creating stories for others to enjoy.

We need to put stories in to get more stories out.

Try new experiences instead of writing.

Writing is a balance between experience and recording it down so that others can experience it through your writing. One does have to tell stories well in order to succeed, but half of the equation is experience. That can be someone else’s experience or your own.

This could even be done by imagining the scene to try to hone in the awareness of what’s going on and how to explain it best to your reader without distracting them from imagining it for themselves.

In other words, you shouldn’t feel guilty for living life and experiencing life instead of always writing during your free time, because what you experience can and most certainly will help with your writing, even in subtle ways.

Sometimes it’s helpful to know why we are avoiding writing.

On bad writing days, we might only write 200 words and that’s okay.

But when we find ourselves putting it off over and over and over again, we should probably take time to ponder why we are avoiding it so heavily.

Often times it is fear that prevents us.

We’re actually afraid of not being able to put it together in the best possible way so instead, we just don’t do it at all.

If this is the case try to do it in steps to make it less daunting.

First, make a rough outline, such as “John meets Sarah for lunch. She finally tells him she’s pregnant. He doesn’t take the news well.”

By starting with a rough outline of what you want, you just made it 10 times easier on yourself to start and write something compared to avoiding it altogether.

Remember that you have the editing process where as long as you have something written, you will be able to see more clearly how it could be better than if you wrote nothing at all. Trust me, and trust your editing process.

I have had many moments writing where I can’t get the words right and I feel like quitting, but then I remind myself that I should just write down whatever is coming to my head at the moment and then later come back and rewrite it.

This has worked every single time that I can remember not feeling like I’m getting the right words at the moment.

Coming back to it later has always given so much clarity rather than stopping and having nothing to look at later.

Set a writing time.

For some people setting a writing time will be the best way for them to avoid writing guilt.

If your writing time is from 6-7 pm that is the time you sit down to write whether the words come or not.

Outside of 6-7 pm, you aren’t allowed to feel guilty about not writing because… it’s not writing time.

It’s a simple tool, but effective for some people and especially those that would call themselves planners.

Be actively consuming.

To help with writer’s guilt you can make better use of the other media you like to see.

When watching a movie or show be on the lookout for foreshadowing, hooks, and twists that you enjoy and can add to your writing toolbox.
When you’re researching how can that research add to your writing ability in your current or future projects?
Read actively. Analyze the writing. What do you like about it? What do you not like? How would you change it to be better?

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How to Kill a Main Character

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How to Kill a Main Character

You’ve probably heard people talk about killing their main characters and how it can be good for the story.

Unfortunately, if we don’t do it right, it can be cheesy and unsatisfying.

It’s not possible to just kill a character that’s been around for a while and have the reader feel sad about it. If it’s not done well the reader might feel it was just unnecessary.

We wouldn’t want to kill a main character just for shock factor. We should set it up in a way that makes sense for the reader even though it might be sad.

Give the death purpose.

Even though we can’t see the purpose in a death in real life most of the time, in our stories it should mostly have a purpose and we should try to bring some sort of meaning to death.

If we have a character that we’ve really developed and love and the reader loves too we need to make sure that their death has a good purpose. Make sure their death was worth it.

Our purpose shouldn’t be to have the reader feel sad about their death. There should be a fictional world reason like self-sacrifice for others or plans will not succeed otherwise type of thing.

Be careful with this type of planning. It should not be easy for the reader to say, “but he could have just done this and not have died.” Don’t leave plot holes that are more obvious. This can be considered very lazy writing.

Give more than one reason that the character died unless it is an airtight argument that there was no way around it.

Make sure no one is safe.

Keep the stakes high for the reader by making sure that no one in your world is safe.

If every main character keeps surviving every major conflict and barely escaping death this creates predictability in storytelling and eventually, that reader may become bored.

If you are able to convince the reader to be on the edge of their seat because any character could die at any moment, this would be a successful thing.

Set it up ahead of time.

You can add foreshadowing to show the reader that this was supposed to happen. Set it up, that way, if they look back they can see the signs and see how cleverly you set it up.

By making little promises to the reader and fulfilling them we add trust to our writing as well as meaning and purpose to the decisions we make.

Kill characters everyone loves.

One of the best things you can do for your story is to kill someone you love.

Make the character lovable, helpful, and maybe slightly friendly to a fault.

Someone that no one would want to hurt and then kill them.

It is probably best to have one of the main villains directly involved in this sort of death so that the reader feels ridiculous amounts of animosity towards the main villain for being responsible for killing such a great person. The more they feel like that character didn’t deserve it the better.

A surprise death can be very effective.

Good deaths don’t always have foreshadowing. Sometimes good deaths are ones we as the audience really don’t want to see happen.

When we have that feeling of, “oh no! But I loved that character!” We know we’ve done something right.

The last thing you want is for your reader to feel indifferent towards death. You either want them to feel the sting of it or the justification of it.

Make the villains do truly horrible things.

If you’re going to kill your villain make sure that they do truly horrible things to some lovable people. This allows readers to feel justified when the villain dies.

It is like the villain is getting what they deserve. Everything they have done makes this death feel like it needed to happen.

Take a break from death, but don’t break up completely.

After writing really emotional death scenes, take a break and write, watch, or read something lighter.

Writing highly emotional scenes like death scenes can be really draining. It’s important to take emotional rest.

Even watching some funny videos is helpful to just laugh for a bit.

Don’t force yourself into a state of grief unending. Take emotional breaks from it and work on something else and then come back to it.

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Don’t allow your feelings to stop you.

Sometimes we can fall in love with our character. Sometimes we like them so much we decide to let them live just because we don’t want to kill them.

Don’t do this.

If the character’s death makes sense and is necessary to make their story beautiful go ahead and allow them to pass on.

It can feel horrible but in the end, it will make sense for the story and the readers will cherish the character and their death. And I think you will feel less regret about it.

Sometimes people do have random deaths.

In real life, sadly people do pass on without warning and seemingly random at times. (I personally don’t believe this, but it seems that way for now.)

But in a story, it’s hard to do a random death because we feel like, “why are you telling this story if their death was just random?”

People can die in the story randomly at first, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

Sometimes a character dies to make other characters sad and it helps start their journey, the one you are truly focusing on.

It’s okay to cry while killing your character.

Many authors describe deep emotional feelings of loss when killing a beloved character.

I don’t think that we can say 100% that this means the reader will also love the character and cry at their demise.

But this is a good sign. If you feel that deeply about your character and have done a good job of showing your reader who they are then there is a good chance that the reader will also feel emotional pain at losing the character as well.

So it is okay to feel emotional sorrow when writing a character’s death, even if it’s a villain. This is usually a good sign.

If you feel indifferent, maybe you didn’t spend enough time working on that character’s development and personality.

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How to Create a Truly Terrifying Villain 7 Tips

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How to Create a Truly Terrifying Villain

What in a villain character is truly terrifying? Are there sure-fire ways to create a villain and know that it will scare our reader?

Hopefully, these tips will help you do just that.

Give the villain strength where the main character is weak.

Villains really start to become terrifying to a reader when they continually put our beloved main character into a constant state of lose-lose situations.

Instinctively, we want there to be a healthy give and take scenario in all our relationships in life, but when you put a person in the case where they always take and never give back what happens?

We instantly feel negative feelings towards that character. We feel that it is unfair. We start to feel worried for our main characters when the villain appears on the scene because we know inevitably our main character is going to lose something or someone they hold dear.

We feel this because we personally don’t want to lose someone or something we hold close to at heart.

Leave mystery for audiences to feel the fear of the unknown.

One of the best tools for creating a truly scary villain is making use of the fear of the unknown.

People who are afraid of the dark are not normally afraid of darkness. They are afraid of what might be lurking in the darkness. It’s the unknown factor.

Our overly stimulated imaginations run wild with all the horrifying possibilities of what might await us.

Think about dark water.

A clear swimming pool looks awesome because we can look through it and see whether there is danger or not, but put us on a plank with nothing but a deep blue ocean beneath us of never-ending mysterious peril, and all of the sudden we are hitting the fear of the unknown button.

Do this with your villain. Don’t reveal your villain for a good part of the story. Make your reader’s imagination run wild with all the possibilities so that they feel the fear of the unknown.

Think about Harry Potter and his main villain Voldemort.

Did you realize we don’t see his true form until around book 4?! (If I have it correctly, which correct me if I’m wrong here, but he doesn’t take his true villain form until book 4. He shows many strange mysterious forms before that.)

That’s some serious use of the fear of the unknown. He’s a lurking shadow that directly affects our main character’s life in terrible horrible ways for his entire life before we even really see him once.

Also, Rowling uses a ton of character dialogue to build up this mysterious Voldemort.

It’s like talking to friends and family about a horrible person, thing, or monster for a long time without ever experiencing it. We can be easily terrified by what people say about a person even if we never run into them ourselves.

By what people say we may never want to run into them.

And think about when a door or inanimate object moves in your house when you’re all alone. It’s creepy. Is not scary because the door moved, it’s scary because you don’t know why it moved at first. (Then you see your cat pop its head from behind the door and you breathe a sigh of relief.)

Don’t give the villain’s motives away at first.

Don’t give the villain’s motives away too soon (or maybe at all.)

This plays on the fear factor. When a reader sees a character do something horrid they instantly want to know why. “Why would anyone do such a thing?!” Is something they might be falling out thinking.

Keep that feeling there, planted in their mind for as long as you can. It helps keep curiosity (which keeps the reader reading.) It also is a good way of making the villain more terrifying. We continue to feel horror and dissatisfaction as our minds can’t fathom why the character would do such a thing or who sent the creature to do such a thing. Internally we are dying to know why!

When you finally do reveal the villain’s motives it can be a strong emotional connection moment for the reader and anchor their feelings into the story to see it through.

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Make the villain’s horrible acts hollow to the main character.

Oftentimes we follow the hero around as they try to save everyone in their path that’s innocent and in danger.

Most times they are saving people from monsters and Sudo villains that are greedy and like to abuse people.

But then they run into someone or something that is truly terrifying because our main character can’t figure out why they are doing it and there seems to be no motive or purpose as to why the villain would do such hideous things.

This is key to some terrifying villains M.O.

The longer you can keep your main character in this state and the more the reader believes it the more daunting the villain becomes as an adversary to stop.

When you understand your enemy’s motive it’s almost easier to figure out how to stop them. Until that point, it serves as a constant source of tension that the reader wants to resolve.

Defeat your main character.

This can be done in two ways.

If you’re writing a tragedy the hero dies. They don’t win. It doesn’t end happily per se.

So it’s inevitable that the hero will die whether they beat the villain or not.

If you’re not writing a tragedy then make your hero lose loved ones along the way. Make them lose battles. And most importantly make them lose so bad to the main villain at least once that we as the audience actually for a moment question whether or not you are writing a tragedy.

Make the main character lose much and we will feel more for the main character and feel fear when the villain is around because we know the stakes are high and no one is safe.

Use deception to solidify feelings of terror for your villain.

One of the best tools for creating a feeling of terror for the reader is deception. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying lie to your reader. Do this instead.

I don’t know if you have ever met a person like this before, but it goes like this:

You meet them, they are nice, funny, and charismatic. They mirror your body language. They listen really well. You think they are genuinely nice and interested in you and then they walk away and you overhear them say something really nasty about you behind your back to their friend.

That’s deception. And some really terrifying villains do this with characters for sinister reasons.

They make them feel safe, secure, and loved only to get them to let their guard down.

They manipulate them with feelings of care so they can get what they want out of them.

It is truly painful to experience in real life, and when you see it happen to a character on the page you might find yourself audibly screaming out, “No! Don’t get in their car! Oh no! I liked that character so much! Uh! Why?!” (If you can’t tell, I’ve been there.)

This is done really well when you create a character that the audience will love and then use the deceptive or nasty villain to kill them off.

Make it so the villain has nothing to lose.

One trick that works really well is using the contrast between the main character and villain of what they each have to lose.

When we create a lot for our main character to lose this helps the audience to feel the weight and fear of loss for the main character. This becomes exponential if we are able to make our audience believe that our hero has everything to lose while our villain has no risk of loss.

The more we reveal that the villain has the potential of loss the more we feel less afraid for the main character and the less fear we feel towards the villain.

The potential of loss for the villain makes them look weaker. We start to see the tides turning as we see the villain panic to not lose what they’ve gained or want to keep.

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7 Tips on How to Title a Story

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

7 Tips on How to Title a Story

Titling a story is a daunting task. When you write you get many words to describe what you want to say.

Titling a story poorly could mean fewer views and fewer reads. You could spend hours, days, months, and years on a story, and if your title is terrible all that hard work might have been for nothing. Less people would be interested in it than if it did have a well-thought-out title.

With a title, your words are extremely limited and you feel like there is so much to capture in just a few words.

Hopefully, these tips will help you narrow it down.

Look for an important town.

Many stories are located in one central place. The place doesn’t have to be pivotal to the story per se, but the name of the town can prove to be useful for the title.

If your story does mainly take place in one small town this can make for a great title.

Let’s say the town is called Oregon Heights, possible titles might be:

Oregon Heights
Midnight in Oregon Heights
[Main Character] and Oregon Heights

Town names give titles a sense of authority and mystery. They can give the title a good foundation from the start and it sounds more catchy in most circumstances.

Use the main character’s name.

This is done often. When you use the main character’s name it’s an easy way to make sense out of the title.

No reader really questions it. Of course, it’s called this, it’s about the main character.

Let’s say your main characters name is Cara Dileto, possible titles could be:

Cara Dileto
Cara and the town meeting
Cara’s Big Day
Cara and the Creature in Her Locker
Cara’s Knight

Using the character’s name in your title is an easy way to name a book as well as it is widely accepted and used often.

It is a tactic that has been used for a long time and isn’t going anywhere because it just makes sense and works.

Use a common phrase.

Sometimes the story revolves around an idea or a common phrase used in a culture.

Stranger Than Fiction
Do the Write Thing
Friday Night Lights
Knight Stalker
Day Lite
Cake Batter Up
Failure to Launch

Readers like clever names because there is a sense that the writer is thus a clever person and thus this might even be a clever read.

Try to think of common phrases that have to do with your story and then think about whether the phrase by itself works out whether you can change one word in it to make it more clever.

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Use what is significant to the story.

If you have certain people, places, or things that end up being largely involved in the story, you can use them in the title.

Here are some examples:

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Sorcerer’s Stone
The Time Machine
The Lost Locket

It lets you know what to expect from part of the story but doesn’t give anything away. It still keeps a bit of its mystery.

Give it some mystery.

People like to know that there is a good thing they can look forward to. They know they are about to find out about it, but it still has a bit of mystery around it. We like a good mystery.

A good title gives us just enough information, but leaves the book just mysterious enough that we must crack open the book to find out for ourselves.

Use an important event.

Most stories have a pivotal event occur in them. You can try to use that event to bring meaning to the title.

I Know What You Did Last Summer
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Boys Night Out
The Battle of First Street

It can be the main event or it can be one that has significant importance. It doesn’t have to be the climax but sometimes that makes more sense.

Use a specific time.

Some key moments in a story revolve around a certain time and this can give curiosity to the title but also reveal an element the reader is looking forward to finding out about.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Time to Die
7:00 PM Friday
Friday the 4th
St. Valentines Day
Between 5 and 6

By using a certain time in the title we give our reader more intrigue. For potential readers, it can bring immediate curiosity to find out what happens in the story at that time. It gives the story a real point of significance.

If you go with this type of title be sure not to let the reader down. Be sure that the reveal is worth the time spent getting to it.

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How to Make Sure Readers Will Love Your Book

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How to Make Sure Readers Will Love Your Book

If we take the painstaking time to write out a full book, we definitely want readers to love it.

Is there a way to make 100% sure that everyone will? No.

The hard truth is not everyone will like your book, but you really shouldn’t be aiming for just anyone. You should be aiming your book for a specific type of person.

With this one key idea in mind, your book will stand a much better chance of gaining long-term success.

Choose the right person.

At the start of your book, you’ll want to know exactly who you are writing for. This is really important in writing a successful book.

If it doesn’t help someone solve a problem in their life, this book is going nowhere.

This doesn’t mean it can’t be fiction it just means you need to understand why you are writing the fictional story.

If you’re a fan of fantasy, and you want to write a fantasy story then you’ll want to study fantasy readers, the type of stories they fall for, and what they want to read them for.

When you know these things you can create a story that you know people are looking for.

Don’t expect to write a western and randomly get a flood of people that don’t look to read westerns to suddenly love your book.

Instead, pick the right person for your story and then do the work of trying to get it in front of their eyes and you stand a much better chance of a lot of readers loving your book, because they already love that genre and are actively seeking out books like yours to read.

Add value.

For your book to have a fighting chance you will have to make sure that it is valuable to the type of reader you’re writing for.

Are there other books that already cover the topic extensively?

Can you write one better?

Can you see how the information that is already out there could be updated and better?

Cut the fluff out of your book. Make sure that every page is loaded with value.

Don’t throw another bunch of words into the void and just hope it’ll go somewhere. We have to be 100% positive that this book is going to be everything our reader is looking for.

Value comes in many forms. It is obvious what is valuable in a non-fiction book, but for fiction, you are looking to add conflict, good hooks, and cliffhangers to get the reader’s attention and to keep them reading until you bring the narrative to a close.

When it comes to fiction, the value comes from the experience you give the reader through the telling of the story and the characters involved.

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Get proof.

The best way to make sure that the right reader will love your book is to use beta readers.

Beta readers are awesome. They take out the guessing games. You no longer have to wonder, “will someone like this book?” and “Why would they like it?”

We can get beta readers in the exact genre we are marketing the book to read it or parts of it and get instant feedback.

If we get the right people and they all think the book is good and would buy it, we can launch on the right footing knowing we’re putting something good in the market for the specific type of person we are looking to serve with our writing.

Give your book away to the right people.

Find people like your beta readers and give your book away for free. Give it to people that you know up front it was designed for and will love it.

When you target the first people that read it you are looking to amass great reviews for the book. Look for people that like your genre and already have a habit of writing reviews online.

Look for people that not only are your exact market that you wrote to but also that look like good word of mouth people.

Remember that when you find something good you enjoy telling others in your life about it. Use this human instinct to your advantage.

Allow word of mouth and chats over the internet to push your book further.

Start off by knowing the type of person you are writing for. Then make your book especially for that person. Get test readers to make sure you did the subject right, then you can know that readers of that type will spread your book for you and love it.

FAQ:

How do you attract readers to your books?

In your marketing and advertising compare your book to another best-selling book and say things like, “If you liked [insert book title] you will love [insert your book title].”

What do readers look for in a book?

Many things. One major thing readers are looking for in a good book is major characters they can connect with. They look for people to care about in books. They look for characters they can resonate with. They also look for characters they can learn from much like a person in real life.

What makes a book attractive?

Major points to keep in mind here are how captivating the story is and how interesting are the characters and their life circumstances. It might sound backward, but conflict is attractive whereas no conflict is boring.

What makes a reader want to keep reading?

If your characters are captivating enough and your conflict is sound this will keep your reader wanting to read more. The more powerful the connection between the character and their conflict the more it has the reader thinking, “I wonder what happens next,” which is the feeling that keeps their attention to want to read more.

What makes a book boring?

A lack of interest in a story usually comes from a not enough conflict or the reader doesn’t believe the conflict. The reader also loses interest when there is conflict, but the stakes don’t seem to be high enough. If many chapters of your book run together without any conflict this can create a boring chunk of reading that is more work to get through and thus it becomes boring.

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Happy writing!

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Here’s What You Can Do With Excessive Daydreaming

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Here’s What You Can Do With Excessive Daydreaming

You might be able to consider excessive daydreaming as the opposite of writer’s block (I wouldn’t go that far) but in some respects, it can be a nuisance.

Sometimes our excessive daydreaming can take us out of reality at the wrong times.

Say you’re listening to a professor about an upcoming exam and then suddenly you are whisked away into a magical land where the evil Snorgels are threatening the very existence of the Nubian race. It is genocide at its worst.

After living through a couple of major battles you come back to reality to hear your professor say, “study hard. This exam is worth 50% of your semester grade.” 😱🤦‍♂️🥺

What would Flemshaw Commander of the Nubian race do? I think he’d grab a Snorbo Spear and throw it through the professor’s…no no that definitely won’t help your grade…

Sometimes excessive daydreaming can get in the way of real life, but those who have this problem can also condition it, train it, and use it for its advantages.

Try journaling.

You might have been told this several times, but if you haven’t started journaling your daydreams yet, you might be missing out on some serious story power.

Not all of our daydreams are novel-worthy, but most of them can be turned into great short stories. (Here are 30 places that’ll publish your short stories.)

Certain magazines publish short stories and what’s the harm in trying to get published?

Also, when we are recording our mind musings it is more likely to condition our brain to deep think about these scenarios at more appropriate times (not during a pop quiz.)

Take time to record down the thoughts that won’t seem to go away and you might just find that this is a very powerful tool for you.

Turn your daydreams into short stories.

Embedded in the last major point was actually my personal favorite thing to do with daydreams.

Turn them into short stories.

I recommend doing this almost every time.

Short stories are extremely useful. They not only are able to be turned into novels or lessons later on down the road, but they can take you back to a time you might have forgotten.

I can still remember the times revolved around most of the short stories I’ve written. Sometimes vague memories pop up thinking about them, but other times more vivid memories are accessible.

It’s like catching a time and space and locking it into memory in the midst of mundane circumstances.

The short story is like a placeholder.

Write it to get it out.

Some people should write because they are excessive daydreamers.

It’s like having a machine in your head that takes energy and time away whenever it wants to generate these amazingly vivid moments of imagination and thought.

But when we don’t take the time to get it out of our heads by writing it down the machine continues to overload our brain system with these vivid imaginations on its terms instead of on ours.

If we instead write it down to get it out then the next time it is more likely not going to take control of our entire thoughts as easily as it did before. Get it out to help train your brain when it’s appropriate to daydream and when it’s not.

Create a shorthand for thoughts.

Create your own shorthand to quickly jot down daydream ideas for later.

Here’s an example:

C F K I A 4 y/o T M T A R O: Castian’s family was killed in front of him at four years old then the murderers took him and raised him as their son.

This type of shorthand might not work for you. You’ll have to practice with your own and see what sticks with you.

But you can see how you could be almost anywhere in the world, you could jot down some letters, numbers, and symbols real quick and then later look at it to remind yourself of your idea.

This trick might save you time and help you not lose cool ideas.

Write multiple ideas.

Don’t hesitate to write down multiple ideas whenever they come to you.

Even if you’re working on one big project it’s better to go ahead and quickly jot down other ideas when they come so you can get back to the big project without distractions.

One big problem for daydreamers is that we get ideas on hyperdrive.

It is a common problem that it is hard for us daydreamers to finish any one thing. This is because halfway through we get a new idea and that new idea eats away all of our brain space.

This problem occurs because we like the new idea. It’s shinier and newer than our old idea. It sounds more fun than the hard work of finishing the one we’re currently on and also because we don’t want to lose the cool new idea we just had.

To allow our brains to let go of thinking about the new idea we need to quickly write it down so we feel good that it’s stored away and not lost.

Another thing that has worked well for daydreamers is to actually spend some time working on one project and then switch to another.

Daydreamers are often able to put good work into two or three big projects all in the same 8-hour shift. Not simultaneously, but a couple of intense hours on one and then the other. Our brains just work that way.

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Stand up and stretch.

It’s easier for a daydreamer to lose track of time and reality when they are comfortable.

If you stand up and walk around it helps you refocus on what you want to be focused on. Try also taking long slow breaths to get refocused from daydreaming.

The same thing with a little bit of exercise. If you’re in the middle of a big project and you suddenly start to drift off you can stand up and go for a walk or do some quick jumping jacks.

Anything to get your heart pumping fresh blood through your brain helps bring us back from the daydream and into reality and whatever we need to focus on at the moment.

Keep idea files.

You might not be the type to daydream about stories and characters.

You might come up with business ideas or stuff to do with life, work, or school.

Keep files for different things you like to daydream about.

I’ve got short story ideas, daily life stories, business ideas, etc.

Daily life stories for example are little moments in my life that I want to keep as stories that are real and not fiction.

“Like the other day, my wife and I were looking at a house buy. It’s 100 years old. It’s a bit of a fixer-upper. It has a Michigan basement. And the bathroom upstairs is a complete gut job, but underneath those things, this house has SO much potential.

It has beautiful hardwood. Some really neat old fashion doors that otherwise wouldn’t be there if it were not so old. We as a couple see that potential and could see ourselves investing into it and giving it time and care to see its true potential shine through even though at first glance it has some misgivings.

When I thought about this house, I thought about people.

Most people are like this house (I’m not talking about being 100 years old.) I’m saying some people seem to have certain baggage or setbacks for whatever reason, and a lot of us might write them off as “unlovable” or “insufferable.”

But what if more of us saw the potential in other humans? What if we were willing to take time and energy to care about them and invest in them? What would they become? What would shine through them?”

That would be my example of a life story. In my daily life stories file, I probably recorded that idea like this:

“saw broken down fixer-upper house today with Haley. It’s broken but it’s got huge potential. We are willing to invest in it. What if we saw more broken people this way? Worth investing in?”

And then because I have that file I can remember that idea and use it for later. (Like right now.)

You can see how it doesn’t take long to write down an idea and save it for good use later.

By keeping idea files daydreamers can quickly record things that are distracting them from the reality of the moment and also have useful material to go back to later.

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Should I Read For Writing Advice or For Pleasure?

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Should I Read For Writing Advice or For Pleasure?

Reading for analysis and advice is somewhat distant from reading for just pleasure, but at the same time reading for pleasure is very helpful for writers, but maybe not for the reasons you’re thinking.

When you’re enjoying a book you can just read through several chapters and look at the time to see hours have disappeared and suddenly realize you forgot to eat all day.

When we read a story to study the authors writing style and intent we stop to think about commas, plot, character development, and all sorts of other things.

So the question is as an aspiring writer should we read for pleasure at all or just read for advice?

Half and half.

It should really be a healthy blending of the two. We should read some things just to enjoy them and when we do enjoy them we should go back and study them to see the nuts and bolts of why we really enjoyed them. As writers, it’s a great skill if we are able to put ourselves back into the minds of just being a reader.

If we forget what that is like to get lost in a good book that can become a detriment to our awareness of what it is like to just consume a story and enjoy it for its writing merit.

On the other hand, it’s important to be able to break down a scene and understand how to set up a good cliffhanger or know how to show what our character is feeling without just saying it.

Remember your first good read.

Can you remember the first time you read through a book and just couldn’t put it down? Do you remember reading through a book in one sitting?

I do. It was Stuart Little (I didn’t read this one in one sitting, but I remember it being the first book I couldn’t put down.) I wasn’t an avid reader (which might surprise you) in fact, I hated reading for a long portion of my life. Having ADD, just meant I couldn’t focus on a book. I would literally read the words and then wake up from zoning out to only realize I was halfway down the page and didn’t know anything I just “read.”

After rereading the same paragraph 4 or 5 times I would inevitably give up.

One day, my brother mentioned that I should try Stuart Little. So I did.

I remember little of the next 3 days except reading that book and imagining a little sophisticated mouse shooting arrows at a cat.

It’s good to have moments like this, especially if we write. We want to know and remember what it is like to just find a good book and what it is like to get lost in it.

We should be striving for that in our writing. We want our readers to get lost in a good story.

It’s hard to stop.

Once we start to analyze writing for the study of our own writing style it is EXTREMELY difficult to go back and just read for pleasure

It’s hard to just read for pleasure, but it is possible. Sometimes I’ll even find myself trying to analyze an author and suddenly I’ll realize I’m just reading again and will have missed some good analysis 😂

So it can really go both ways depending on who you are reading.

But I often find myself dissecting stories and writing on any media I’m enjoying. It’s hard to watch a show without analyzing the script, the plot, and the acting.

It doesn’t bother me. I enjoy analyzing, but I know for some writers they miss being able to just enjoy a good story without thinking too deeply into it.

So take caution. When you start to read for analysis, just know that it’ll be difficult to just read for fun.

Try to remember your spark.

Most aspiring writers love reading and writing. There are a few writers that just love writing and have to force themselves to read, but I don’t think this is the norm.

For those that start to read to study writing try to have something in place that can trigger your ability to remember what it is like just to be a reader and not a writer.

You don’t really want to write like a writer unless you are writing to writers. (Say that five times fast.)

You really want to write remembering what it is like to be a reader that gets lost in a good book.

With that type of thinking try to think of some of the books you personally got lost in.

Take time to remember what that was like. When you read most of the time you want to keep an analytic eye on what you’re reading.

But don’t forget what it is like to read a book for enjoyment.

How would you write it?

One fun and helpful way of reading is to read with an editor’s eye.

What would you change about it?

I’ll do this from time to time and it’s very helpful for my growth as a writer.

It doesn’t have to be that we think we are “better” and can make the writing better. It has more to do with our personal writing style.

When you can see how you would say something just a little bit differently than another writer, you start to see how you ARE different from that writer.

This is important and helpful for having your own voice.

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The change might be hard.

If you are an avid reader already it will be hard to put on analytical goggles. You’ll have to work at it and create a new skill.

If you’re an analytical person already, you know it’s hard to turn off and you probably analyze everything, not just writing.

Whichever you are the change will be hard for you.

It’ll either be hard to stop just reading for pleasure and start to analyze and break down other author’s writing so you can learn and figure out your own style of writing.

Once you become analytical about your reading it can be difficult for some time to turn it off and try to read for fun without automatically seeing blatant errors or how the writing could be better, in your opinion.

Take a deeper look.

After you’ve become analytical about your reading and media you’ll start to have key moments to be on the lookout for.

You’ll be reading a book and suddenly you’ll realize you were drawn in without trying to analyze or critique. It was a part of the writing you were really into and you naturally got drawn in.

When you see this happen and you realize it you should try to stop and go back and analyze that section.

What happened?

What did the author do that drew you in and made you forget you were reading?

These moments become really key in our experience as writers. Seeing the moment we get drawn in is one of the best ways to learn how to draw readers in ourselves.

Take notes.

Reading is a good time to have a journal or pen nearby.

You can jot things that stick out to you right into the margins of the book (I personally don’t like to do this. Feels like I’m making a mess in the book.)

Or you can jot things down in a journal or your smartphone.

When we take time to write down what we just noticed we are solidifying that realization in our memory.

This is an extremely helpful practice, but it does take work and it’s not very fun at first. It’ll seem more fun later when you go to write and you realize that your memory retention is getting better.

Write out your inspiration.

Another great thing we can do while we are reading is to be on the lookout for inspiring ideas.

Maybe we are watching a show and something that is said or done brings a new idea to your mind for one of your characters. Do not wait.

Pause what you are watching if you can and go write down a quick outline or short story and your new idea so you don’t lose it.

If you wait, it is likely that you won’t be able to recall it later or you will just forget to write it down altogether.

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Happy writing!

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How Much to Charge as a Freelance Writer (Per word, per hour, per article, per email)

How Much do I Charge as a Freelance Writer

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

How Much to Charge as a Freelance Writer (Per word, per hour, per article, per email)

Knowing what to charge as a freelance writer can be a stressful situation.

You want to land the job but you don’t want your pricing to scare away potential clients. You also don’t want to charge too little and find that you are being paid unfairly for your skills and service.

You might feel like you’re between a rock and a hard place trying to find the right balance between what’s good and what’s fair.

Hopefully, this guide will help you sort out how much you should get paid and how much clients should be paying you.

Should I charge per hour or per word?

It really can be a matter of preference and a matter of client preference. I personally wouldn’t put too much stake on it. If you are able to write 1,000 clean, optimized words an hour and your client wants to pay per word you can think, “what do I want to make an hour?”

The client wants to pay .10 cents per word then you’ll make about $100 an hour. If they want to pay five cents per word that drops your pay in half for your time. Think about it this way and you can work with clients that want to charge per word and per hour.

The important part is knowing how long it takes you to write around 1,000 words as a meter. In freelance writing, it is a basic you will want to know off-hand how long it takes you to write 100, 200, 500, 1,000, 1,500, and 2,000-word articles so that you have at least a vague idea of how much you’ll be making per hour whether it is paid per word or per hour.

How much to charge per hour:

If just starting out, charge no lower than $20 an hour. This is low for writing online. When you are more advanced charge $60 an hour. When you have a specialized skill set like email or copywriting experience you can charge $150+ per hour.

There are of course many variables and many prices you could charge in between, but these types of prices could be pretty standard for freelance writing compared to other freelance skills.

How much to charge per word:

When you charge per word you don’t have to take your hour into account. If you write really fast then it doesn’t matter how long it takes you to jam out 1,000 words.

If you are starting out you might find yourself writing for .02 per word. When you are more skilled .10 per word can be expected. The highest paying per word is usually capped out at $1 per word.

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How much to charge per article:

With articles, skills really determine pay.

If you are unskilled, don’t understand SEO, and leave lots of edits you could charge $10-20 per 1,000-word article.

If you know your way around SEO and can turn in a finished product then you can charge $500 for a 1,000-word article. If you specialize in a subject and have the skills to back up ROI you can charge $1000+ for a 1,000-word article.

How much to charge per email:

Email writing is a huge industry for writers right now.

For emails, you can charge as little as $20 per hour. If you’re advanced you can charge $60 per hour. If you’re an expert and specialized you can charge $150+ per hour.

Clients will pay for help with email because it is such a huge ROI potential for them to get their emails working correctly.

For cold emails, which is a specialization you can charge $100 for one email easily if you know what you’re doing.

How much to charge for sponsored posts:

Sponsored posts happen when you have followers on a blog or a social media presence and a company pays you to feature their product or service in some way.

The least an influencer should charge for a sponsored post would be $250.

When you get more sponsors and more followers you can charge $1000+ for a sponsored post.

Blogs with traffic of 300,000 or more a month could charge thousands for a single sponsored post.

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Get Paid to Write About What You Love

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 ~ Jeremy ~ Leave a comment

Get paid to write about what you love.

You should be excited if you are a writer, or want to start a career as a writer. Today is a great time in history to get paid to write what you love.

More than any other time on the internet it is easier today to get paid to write than ever before.

Don’t get me wrong, it is still hard work and it will still take time, effort, and discipline, but if you legitimately want to make money and write, now you can do it.

Freelance Writer

One of the fastest and easiest ways to get paid to write is to become a freelance writer.

As a freelance writer, you can write in any niche or you can be specific and choose to be a freelancer that aims to write in certain niches.

MANY companies are hiring writers online now and you can be one of them.

You could get paid to write in:

Food
Fitness
Health
Wealth
Eco-friendly
Cars
Pets
Etc

If you can think of it, there is an opportunity to get paid to write in it.

So what subject do you love and find fascinating?

You can get paid to write as a freelance writer. Be advised, when it comes to freelancing you have the freedom to say yes or no to whatever job opportunities come your way, but oftentimes clients aren’t always looking for things in your niche. You may have to write about things you aren’t personally passionate about to pay the bills.

There is a simple method over 30,000 people use to get paid for freelance writing online.
Opportunities can get started in just minutes a day, all from your home couch.
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Exclusive job listings for writers, updated daily.

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Become a blogger.

Another way to get paid to write what you love is to own your own blog.

It’s not as hard as people make it out to be.

What you have to do:

Get hosting

If you want to make money on your blog, you need to own it outright. And to do that you need to buy housing services.

That is very inexpensive and it’s as simple as purchasing it and then you have somewhere to store your blog and you mostly don’t have to manage that side of it.

Get a theme

Go for something simple that just works and don’t worry about making the site flashy.

You could honestly spend days trying out different colors and landscapes and pictures, but this won’t get you to your end goal faster which is writing about what you find interesting and getting paid for it.

Create content

This is the part that will take the most research know-how, but there is plenty of free resources out there that will have you well on your way in no time. Try looking up “Income School” to start learning the essential basics right away.

They say you want to have 30 to 50 posts to really get things started and it’ll take you about 6 months on average to rank on Google, but you can start getting traffic from Pinterest right away.

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Become a ghostwriter.

Another great way to get paid to write what you love is to become a ghostwriter in your preferred area of expertise.

Ghostwriting is simply the fact that someone hires you to write for them. They pay you for your writing and then they put their name on it as if they wrote it. That way, you are the ghostwriter in the background.

No one will ever know you wrote it. You are essentially selling away your rights to the work, but still getting paid to write.

Ghostwriting is good for those that want to author books but want to get paid for their time right away.

As a ghostwriter you can set yourself up to write fiction for an author and they will pay you and then the writing becomes theirs.

Ghostwriting comes in many forms. They can pay you to help edit the book. Do rewrites. Write chunks of the book to help them finish and meet deadlines. Or they might pay you to write entire books.

These are some creative ways that you can get paid to write what you love and start making money faster than if you just went the route of trying to sell your own books.

FAQ:

Can I get paid to write short stories?

Yes, places like Fireside. Fireside is a short story magazine. Thankfully they want to publish great stories and pay writers well. They pay 12.5 cents per word up to 5,000 words. They try to publish regularly and one of their goals is to publish 10,000 words per month.

Can I get paid to write poetry?

Yes, you can submit your poetry to contests and win cash prizes. You can also try sites like Agni Online to see if you can make good money writing poetry for them. They boast paying $20 per page. Chicken Soup for the Soul also claims to pay poets $200 per accepted poem.

Where can I submit my writing for money?

There are many places you can test out. Try places like Writingpaychecks, Hubpages, Teckler, BubbleWs, Dailytwocents, and ShoutMeLoud.

Does Wattpad pay writers?

They do have a paid writing program. It is called Wattpad Paid Stories. Writers can earn money for their work. Fans and readers can directly support writers through this program.

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That’s all for now.

I hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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