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6 Thoughts on Writing Schools in Fiction

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6 Thoughts on Writing Schools in Fiction

6 Thoughts on Writing Schools in Fiction

Schools are up in the air.

Some of us loved it. Some of us hated it, and some people just liked a few things about school.

But nonetheless whether we hate it or love it it has been a part of most readers’ lives.

Writing schools in fiction doesn’t have to be a difficult daunting task. It can be fun and full of creativity. Thankfully many writers before us have created schools in fiction and so we have a lot of wisdom to glean from.

Creating a fictional school is a great way to resonate with audiences and bring many story elements that are nostalgic to a broad amount of readers.

We don’t have to go far to find inspiration for writing a school in fiction because the majority of humans on the planet attend some type of school in their lifetime.

These are some of the best places to draw inspiration from for writing schools in fiction. Draw from your own experiences and memories. Do you remember the teachers that you couldn’t stand?

Do you remember the ones that bored you do death?

Do you remember who you sat next to in math or science?

These are the places to take inspiration from and turn it into a story of your own.

Teachers

Everyone has teachers they’ve loved or hated.

There are so many vibrant teacher personalities that can add unique Dynamics to any story.

You can have:

– the crazy teacher

– Fun teacher

– Strict teacher

– Mean teacher

Teachers can be supportive characters and challengers.

A really fun dynamic is having the teacher be the ultimate villain hiding in plain sight.

Teachers are a huge resource to a writer making a fictional school.

Peers

Again there’s an endless world of possibilities in peers.

Every personality you can think of under the sun you can add and take away.

There could be many relationships or only a few.

There could be a few peers that play pivotal roles. Or maybe just one repeating character peer.

The location of the school

The location of the school is a big deal.

Is it near the main character’s house?

Is it far away?

Do they walk there?

Or do they have to take Transportation?

Is it other worldly?

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Is the school on Earth at all?

Is it in the city?

Is it in the country?

What country is it in?

Depending on where the school is, it means a lot for how the reader will preconceive the details of the school and what it looks on the outside and the inside.

The number of students

The number of students affects:

– Sports

– Classroom size

– Competitions

– Band

– Music

– Arts

– Number of classes

– Number of teachers

The number of students affects many details and should be considered.

Curriculum

Is this a regular school?

Is it a school for the dead?

Is it a magical school?

School for animals?

School for adventurers?

What is the school’s main purpose?

Some extra random thoughts to consider for writing your fictional school:

Are there competing schools?

How are the students arranged in the classroom?

When it comes to making a fictional school there are lots and lots of details to sort out.

The more questions you can answer before writing chapter one the better and it’s best to write these answers down somewhere so that you have a reference to look back on.

Otherwise it’s tough to remember how you first felt about the school and what you dreamed it would be.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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The #1 Way to Make Your Scenes Not Boring While Revealing the Story

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The #1 Way to Make Your Scenes NOT BORING While Revealing the Story to Your Reader

Master writers and editors know what it takes to make scenes not boring while revealing the story.

Let’s talk about what makes a scene boring.

There is one major thing you don’t want to do to your readers when writing a scene and revealing the story.

Don’t make it work for them to read it.

Period.

If you make it a ton of work for them to get through chapter one scene one, they are going to put down the book and probably never want to pick it up again.

Here is how you make it a ton of work for your reader to make it through your scene. 

Chapter 1: I tell them about the world, the shops in the world, the streets in the world, the mountains, the trees, what the birds look like, the cool and exotic plants. I tell them about the characters and every tiny detail about them. I tell them about her hair and her eyelashes. What she thinks about the flowers…

Do you get where we are going with this?

We are being a bit exaggerated here, but let’s be honest, it happens. And stuff like that used to work, but not today.

To make a scene “too much work didn’t read” (TMWDR) aka (TLDR) we give them a million descriptive details to read through without once moving the story along!

And our reader is left feeling like, “let’s get the ball rolling people!”

We can give them the details about the beautiful world in our imagination, but give it in small doses and allow them to use some imagination.

Move the story forward

We can give them some descriptions and we should, but great authors know that in order to be allowed to explain what a character looks like we have to earn the right to talk about them and why they are important.

…we have to earn the right to talk about our fictional characters and why they are important to the reader and the story. Click to Tweet

The way that we earn the right to tell the reader anything while revealing the story, is when they are thinking this one secret thought.

We have to put this one thought in their minds and keep it there, the moment we’ve lost this thought that we’ve put in their heads, they’ll put down the book.

That secret thought is the same one all great writers use across all mediums, whether it’s story, freelance, copywriting, blogging, or marketing.

The secret thought is: “If I just read a little bit further, I’ll find out what I want to know.”

Figure out how to put this one thought into your reader’s mind and they’ll read everything you write them: “If I just read a little bit further, I’ll find out what I want to know.” Click to Tweet

When we are so into reading anything, a story, an article, a blog, we have this same thought too. It’s really more of a feeling. But we read on intently looking for the answer to our questions.

Questions like, “What will happen next?” “What is going to happen to this character now?” are what we want our readers to think as writers in any medium.

The way we plant the secret question in their head using story

The way we create the secret question is simple.

Keeping it in their minds is the hard part about writing a story and writing one that readers can’t put down until they’ve read every last page.

The way is simple but executing takes time, practice, and insight.

How do we create the secret question in their head?

We create a problem that must be resolved.

The way we make scenes not boring

The way to make scenes not boring is to move the story along. (I know we said this above but go with me here as we explain further.)

We need to give the reader something to be curious about and look forward to.

Along the way we slowly but surely reveal characters and scenery and explain little bits and pieces of the world and bring them into our world and share it with them.

But to make a scene not boring and to move the story along we must create curiosity about what happens next!

How to get your reader thinking what happens next?

It is the coveted moment. The reader can’t stop reading page after page, chapter after chapter all because they keep thinking, “what happens next?”

But how do we get them thinking this through every chapter?

I already told them about the hero and the bad guy and he wants to destroy the world, what else keeps them curious?!

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The journey.

Moving the story along is the journey it takes to get from the introduction of our characters to the main problem that faces them to seeing it out to the end and all the misadventures in between.

But how do we make the journey interesting?

Let’s ask a more detailed question. 

The one we’ve been asking all along.

How do I make each scene interesting?

Give each scene a purpose.

If every single scene we bring the writer into doesn’t have a purpose in moving the story forward then why on Earth are we telling them about the scene?!

So when you plot your outline be thinking of each scene and the “why” behind it’s necessary existence, because if your reader reads one or two scenes that seem to be not purposeful, that is, there is no “pay off” for them taking the time to read it they will likely put down the book.

Make sure each and every scene you write creates curiosity and has a “pay off,” for your reader. Click to Tweet

An easy way to give our scenes a why

Yes, in our scenes we may want to show a certain detail about character development or reveal a hidden artifact, but the easiest way to get the reader through it and on to the next page is to create mini difficulties for the characters.

Our main problem may be that the antagonist(s) wants to blow up the world but while our hero is on the way to stop the no good antagonist(s) they need to run into many challenging obstacles on the way.

Think of your story as more of an obstacle course

To get to the finish line our protagonist needs to run through the maze, climb the slippery slime wall, survive the dread log tumble, jump through the fiery hoop, and before they can even see the finish line they have to carry the weighted sack of fortitude up mount killmyback.

That’s a story.

And each obstacle is a scene. We see the obstacles and how the character handles them and each obstacle reveals more and more to us their true character. (“Show, don’t tell.”)

That’s how we move the story along, keep the reader interested, and reveal the true nature of our characters as we go 🙂

If we told the reader all about how each obstacle was made, how long it took, and about the nuts and bolts of it, that might be a little interesting (if you are trying to write a documentary about the story) but not if they haven’t seen it in action and seen how the course wrecks a character and is extremely interesting to watch. 

Give each scene a purpose while you are revealing the story.

Make an obstacle around that purpose.

And your reader will be thinking that coveted question, “What’s going to happen next?!”

Give each scene a purpose. Make an obstacle for your fictional character around that purpose, and your reader will be thinking that coveted question, “What’s going to happen next?!” Click to Tweet

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4 Tips How to Write a Sinister Antagonist

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How to Write a Sinister Antagonist

One of the great things about writing a protagonist that your readers can root for is writing an equally sinister antagonist.

The hero and the villain play off each other.

You can’t have one without the other and your reader has no one to root for if there is no one to fear and root against.

Thus we must create villains that really make the stakes high.

Write your sinister antagonist as more clever and more dangerous than your protagonist and then you will have a good concoction for an epic battle of good and evil.

Then let’s talk about making our antagonist sinister so that we make the plot more interesting.

Make the antagonist sinister by allowing them to reach their goals

What does the villain want?

Power?

Money?

Fame?

Give it to them or make them start out with it.

In ready player one, the main antagonist has an entire company working towards his goal to control the Oasis and thus the world whereas our hero is just one boy.

What are your villain’s morals?

The more your villain lacks morals the more sinister they appear.

Portray this over time and even confuse and make your reader question their intent a couple of times before revealing that they ultimately care for no one but themselves.

As they get closer and closer to their real goal make them act out more and more to show their true brutal sinister rationale.

How does your antagonist feel about their own morality

I think this can go either way. Some villains know they are in the wrong and relish in it.

This makes for a truly sinister villain because at some point you realize there is no hope in reasoning with such an individual.

But on the other hand some authors like to have a misguided character that truly believes they are the hero and are doing what’s best for everyone. (Thanos VS Dr. Robotic)

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What will be your villain’s past?

I disagree with the notion that all villains are nurtured into villainy. Some are born out inclined to act more selfish than others.

So it could go either way for your antagonist’s back story.

Did something happen to them to make them think the way they do or were they just more selfish and turn away from the world at an early age?

When did they start to decide to do evil and enjoy it?

The more they enjoy the harm of others the more sinister and unreasonable they appear.

Make the hero lose hope

Nothing makes a villain appear more sinister when they have seemingly won the hero had given up or lost hope.

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Why oh why do we love the jerk?

It’s a common phenomenon.

“Girls like the bad boy.”

” Nice guys finish last.”

“Play hard to get.” 

These are common phrases we know and here that revolve around the psychology of people liking jerks.

So how can we use this phenomenon in choosing and writing our characters?

How to write a lovable jerk

#1 Everyone Wants It, But Too Much is a Turn Off:

Confidence

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Everyone wants it.

But nobody wants arrogance and there’s a fine grey line between the two (is it grey or gray?).

If your character is too confident then it comes across as arrogant and your reader will start to loathe them.

But one main reason most people like the jerk is because she is confident.

Confidence is a very attractive quality.

What is the opposite of confident?

– Needy

– Clingy

– Whining

– Pathetic

– Self-loathing

“Ewww…”

If you’ve been reading and a character is too sympathetic towards their own bad situation it comes across as unattractive. This is self-loathing, the opposite of cool, confident, and collected.

These are simple ways that you can write your lovable jerk. Avoid the above list.

Part of the reason people love a jerk is because without shouting “I’m really confident!” they just are. They ooze cool and confident because they aren’t afraid to say what they are thinking because they could care less what the other character thinks.

If your character is too confident this plays the opposite and your reader starts to despise that character.

We have to let the confident vibes go a little but then play some other strings too to bring the whole song together.

#2 Can’t Keep Up With Him

Quick Wit

Something that helps our jerk be admirable and get away with being a little bit of a jerk is having a quick wit.

Remember all those comebacks you thought of a day later and said “Ugh! I should have said that!”

Your lovable jerk is quick and never misses an opportunity for a quick comeback.

What’s at play here?

People admire and love to be around a person with an entertaining quick wit.

There is a give and take though. (Just remember that to nail down the lovable jerk you’re always on a fine line between annoying and suave, attractive and not so much.)

This doesn’t mean your character is running around insulting everyone. That’s a jerk, not a lovable jerk. Everyone loves to hate the know-it-all jerk and they want to see them get their comeuppance.

That’s the opposite of what you want your reader to feel about this character.

You want your character to be a bit of a jerk but at the right place and time.

Timing is important.

Think of Sherlock. Extremely intelligent and a faster mind than anyone he interacts with. He could dance circles around anyone with his wit, but utterly rude the majority of the time. 

Even though he can be insultingly rude at times we still love him and want him to accomplish his goals.

We love him and find him interesting because he is fun to watch and extremely intelligent.

We also like him despite his jerky side for another reason.

#3 Good Will

Slightly good intentions

This works with anti-heroes too.

You can love a jerk like Sherlock because he ultimately is looking to stop the bad guys and save the innocent.

His internal motives may be complex, but at the end of the day his actions save the victim and stop the villain.

In a scenario like this we excuse bad behavior because we experience mostly good behavior.

We as humans are very good at overlooking some bad if the good outweighs it in our opinions.

For instance, if you made a list of pros and cons about a character like Sherlock his pros would outweigh his cons for most readers. Not all of course, but most.

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#4 We are Hoping He’s not as Deep as a Puddle 

Character Depth

A lovable jerk can be nothing but a Jerk at the beginning of our reader meeting them, but if they don’t change slightly or if more about their character doesn’t get revealed by you the writer, as time goes on, your reader will never like them.

For example, Finnick from Hunger Games is a jerk character that many fans love.

It helps that he’s attractive but let’s take a deeper look. We all know looks can give you an advantage, but they can only take you so far before you’re labeled as an attractive, stuck up jerk.

When we first meet Finnick he’s just a jerk. Pain and simple.

But then we spend more time with him and find out he’s for the rebellion.

Further in we see multiple caring sides of him as he tries to protect all those around him. He carries an elderly handicap woman on his back to try to save her life.

His fiance is captured and turned crazy and he remains faithful to her. In the end he gives his own life for Katniss Everdeen and a cause bigger than himself.

Finnick may be stuck up and full of himself at first glance but with time we see his depth of character and that makes him a lovable jerk.

#5 Nobody Likes A Whiny Whiner

There’s a specific writing trick where you can add a sad incident or backstory to a character to gain some sympathy for the character.

Tread lightly with this one.

It can be easy to start with that or to drone on and on about how terrible and tragic their unfortunate event is, but don’t do this.

If you are going for a lovable jerk something bad or many bad things can happen to them, but they need to react correctly in order for your reader to feel positively for them.

Unless you use it as humor or a small arc in their story they can’t wallow in sadness for an entire chapter or two. Humorously they can wallow a little, but realistically it can push your reader away from that character if you’re not careful.

If you want them to be lovable they can only mourn for a moment or for a time that the reader can fast forward through.

For example, “he drank himself to sleep every night that year.” And done. 

Okay, realistically we can give a few more fun facts about their depression than just that, but soon and very soon something that sparks change needs to take place.

You can use sadness for depth of character but if your jerk is to be loved, make it short.

Another way to use tragedy in your jerk’s life is to make him get over it quickly and to move on.

This can be helpful for creating character depth as well.

#6 “I’ve Been Looking at the Man in the Mirror”

Change

One really easy way to write a lovable jerk is to create a character that is about to make a BIG change.

We’ve seen this done many, many, many, many (if you didn’t know, it’s been done a lot) times and it works out equally well despite maybe being a little over done.

One of the major monarchs of this type of lovable jerk is Scrooge.

Scrooge is an iconic lovable jerk that starts out as… well… he starts out as a Scrooge (pun intended) but we see a transformation in his character and in the end he’s super generous.

Another good example is Jack in The Family Man. 

Jack leaves his high school sweetheart for riches and success.

When we meet him he’s so high on the high horse that we couldn’t stand to be around him, but as the story goes on he completely changes into a really awesome character.

This type of transformation, redemptive story is a great way to make a lovable jerk.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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4 Ingredients on How to Write Characters Readers Love to Root For

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How to Write Characters Readers Love to Root For

One thing Tolkien, Rowling, and Lewis all have in common?

They all know/knew how to create characters that readers love and root for.

What are the secret ingredients they used that we can too?

Child-likeness.

Vulnerability.

The Underdogs.

Naivety.

Child-likeness

In all their stories that ended up changing the world, they either chose children to follow or childlike creatures.

In Harry Potter, we follow Ron, Hermione, and Harry. They all start out as tots and we follow them through some horrific trials hoping nothing bad happens and that they win and that the bad guys lose.

Why is this?

It is because of innocence. We as humans favor the innocent party and blame and condemn the bad guilty party.

Harry didn’t do anything to Tom Riddle to make find and kill his parents and try to kill him. We obviously think this is horrid and we wish Harry will survive and that Tom will receive just judgment.

That is how Rowling got us to first root for Harry.

We started to care for him when he was only an innocent baby and someone evil came and did horrible things to him that ruined his life.

Lewis did a similar thing choosing different children to follow in Narnia.

For instance in the lion the witch and the wardrobe we see Lucy an innocent little girl lost in a strange world with no one to help her against the evil witch that rules over the land in great fear and darkness.

Mr. Tumnus finds Lucy and tricks her into falling asleep at this house so he can deliver her over to the evil witch queen.

Vulnerability

Again we have a vulnerable, naive and innocent youth pitted against an older more powerful character with an unreasonable motive to hurt or kill the child.

Instantly as a rational human, we are rooting for the poor child to not be harmed and for the evil queen to receive punishment for her evil acts. 

It’s only natural to feel this way given the scenario.

                                                                        

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The Underdogs

Tolkien didn’t use children. But he chose creatures that had a scenario that was just as persuasive: Hobbits.

Hobbits are extremely childlike in nature and we would never want any harm to befall them.

When we think about Sauron sending orcs to carry out genocide on them and burn down the shire we are in no way rooting for Sauron. We are most assuredly hoping for the best for the little fury footed hobbits.

In each of these scenarios, the author gave us a world where the underdogs are pitted against antagonists that are much more powerful and cunning than they.

Why do we root for the underdog?

Who do we love a great underdog story?

Don’t we resonate with the underdog?

Don’t most of us feel like the underdog that is just trying to make it?

Naivety

We were once children and had adventures of our own.

We have children and see them and want to protect them.

Children are the picture of innocence and naivety and we are naturally inclined to root for them.

Use this knowledge if you dare to write your next story.

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8 Thoughts on How to Write Dystopian Fiction

What is dystopian fiction?

Dystopian fiction is any fiction writing where the world setting is futuristic and the way people have to live to survive is less than ideal.

The opposite of dystopian would be a Utopia where everyone lives happily as equals and no one suffers want our hunger and there is no crime against humanity.

What is a dystopia?

It is a setting either worldwide or regional in which survival is difficult and corruption and crime are rampant. No Character lives without some suffering in this type of setting.

Discovering a new dystopian world

Our dystopian world doesn’t have to be Earth and it doesn’t even have to be the entire planet that you’re working on.

It can be a region or a different planet altogether, but something looks good with dystopian society is the background.

Usually dystopian happens after a thriving society.

Having the remains of what once was a vibrant civilisation is actually a very appealing look for a genre like this.

Think I Am Legend.

All of the buildings and houses of the major cities were left. 

Grass, weeds, and trees grew up around them and on them.

Roots broke through roadways. Animals ran through street corners where man had once dominated.

It was now empty and nature was taking it back.

Ideas like this are helpful in creating a dystopian story where you can see what was there before and how it makes the ruins look there after whatever caused civilization to crumble.

Get ideas from reading and watching dystopian fiction critically

Look at stories like:

– I Am Legend

– Hunger Games

– Snowpiercer

– Divergent

– Maze Runner

– The Walking Dead

– A Quiet Place

– Water World

– Children of Men

– Alita

All great places to get a feel for what you are trying to accomplish.

And when we say to consume something critically out just means to watch and read it and be thoughtful about what you like and what you don’t like.

What works for you and keeps you interested and what causes you to lose interest.

This way you can come up with your own story that will be unique and also thought provoking.

Different dystopian scenes we’ve already seen

– Apocalypse

– Zombies

– Military

– Aliens

– Pandemic

– Global Warming

– Nuclear

– A.I.

– Gov take over

– Monsters

– Evil corporation

– Giants

– War ridden

– Anarchy

– Evil overlord

– Cloning

– Breeding

– Vampires

– Werewolves

– And combinations of the above

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8 Thoughts on How to Write Dystopian Fiction

Main components to think about your future world

1. Setting

2. People

3. Money

4. Barter system

5. Currency

6. Geography

7. Social norms

8. Languages

9. Dialects

10. Hospitalization

11. Medicine

12. Food

13. Wealthy vs Poor

14. Intelligence

15. Technology

What types of characters are we following?

Are we following a group or a herd?

Do we have a main character?

Do we have a specific duo or trio?

Does it eb and flow throughout the narrative?

Do we lose characters or do they all survive?

What to avoid in the main plot

This is just my belief but there really is nothing new under the sun and lots of story ideas have been redone hundreds of times and readers and audiences still really enjoy them.

Some authors might say to avoid vampires, zombies, and aliens etc.

I find that to be overrated input. 

Think of all the shows and movies and books that have repeated the same creature themes or end of the world ideas and have still made for great stories.

There are hundreds of vampire stories yet when another one comes out many people are interested.

The key takeaway here is that if we decide to write another alien story in what ways can we tell it better and different than our predecessors?

Try to hone in on what’s relevant

My wife and I (well mostly me) recently watched Colony.

You know what drew me to wanting to watch it?

My sister told me it was about a society that was lock-down by the powers that be…

Coronavirus anyone?

I was immediately intrigued to see what the story was and how it would play out.

Spoiler alert! Don’t read further if you don’t want to know!

But it turns out that it was an alien invasion and even though I’ve seen many alien invasion but now it was still interesting to watch and think about.

So don’t be afraid to use old ideas.

Just do your best to give them in a new package with interesting characters and story points.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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6 Tips to Help You Write When You Do Not Feel Like Writing

Lots of people want to get paid to write.

And I don’t blame them because for those of us that do enjoy the written word it can be an enjoyable career most days.

But sometimes you have those days (let’s be honest: weeks) where you just don’t feel like it.

You find yourself making excuses.

I’ll take a shower first then I’ll write.

I’ll eat something then I’m good to go.

Grocery store. When I come back it is straight to typing.

What’s on the news?

Do the dishes need done?

I haven’t checked my coin collection in awhile.

Looks like I need to scoop the dog poop in the yard!

At some point we are looking for any excuse to just not WRITE.

Which is weird.

We love researching and writing. We love the English language and it’s dynamic ability to communicate an idea a million different ways.

But in those certain seasons we’ll do just about anything to avoid it.

So how does one “just do it” when they don’t feel like it?

(These ideas are not to be done in any specific order as much as try one and see if it helped. If not, try the next 🙂 )

Read 

Reading is one of the best ways to get yourself writing. (I mostly do this every time I try to write)

This is important though: you really should try to read about what you want to write about.

The reading should really be specific in this circumstance.

At the moment I’m not trying to read for fun. The idea is to read to write.

If I’m trying to write about a character surviving a blizzard alone, Harry Potter probably isn’t the best choice.

Could I come across something that inspires some dialogue or action? Absolutely. 

But I would be much more Keen to try to read about real life stories of people surviving blizzards.

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Watch

It’s okay to use Tv and movies for inspiration, but BE CAREFUL.

Again with the blizzard analogy.

If I’m writing “Tundra Man” it probably won’t help to watch “The Office.”

We can play devil’s advocate all day with excuses in our minds why watching the office will get me writing and my nap afterwards is also going to be extremely stimulating.

But it would be more to the point if I found documentaries on blizzards to get good imagery in my mind of what a blizzard really looks like and the temperatures and the height of the snow. How quickly frostbite sets in, etc.

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Turn Off Distractions

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I’ll be the first to admit that I am the worst at getting rid of distractions.

I’m a total hypocrite, I shouldn’t even list it as advice, but it is true for just about everyone, myself included.

I have a habit of wanting to do a million things all at once at every second of every moment.

“I can multitask!” I tell myself. (and by multitasking, what I really mean is watch my TV show and only end up writing three sentences during a 3 hour Netflix binge)

When I’m being good I find a quiet secluded place and let the words fly. If I’m being naughty I have music going and the TV is on and 3 hours later I have a paragraph. Boo.

Getting rid of distractions can include:

– Turn off notifications

– Turn off phone

– Silent mode

– Airplane mode

– Leaving the house or room

– Going to the car

– Going to a coffee shop with headphones

– Classical music

– Musical beats

– No words music

– No TV

– No friends around

– No family around

– No pets

– No comfy chair

– No food

– No alcohol

– Locked doors

– No games

– No distractions

Some distractions are common to everyone.

Some are more specific to you.

We do our best and give ourselves a fighting chance if we figure out what’s distracting us and cut it out.

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Let the words flow

One of the WORST writing habits to make is to wait for the “perfect sentence” to pop into our minds. 

There is no such thing as the perfect sentence in my opinion.

Some ideas work better than others but the only way we get there is by writing down whatever comes to our minds first and rereading it to edit later.

Just get your ideas down on the page first. Don’t worry if it sounds terrible at first. You are going to edit it later. It’s no big dealio.

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Music

Take this one with a bit of caution.

For me, only music that has no words is helpful.

When I used to write for clients this was almost a must. I would shut out the world by having music with no words on. A lot of times it was classical but I don’t feel the genre matters as much as it allows you to think clearly and formulate your own words instead of the lyrics.

Just do it

At the end of the day, the unfortunate news is:

What do you do when you don’t feel like writing?

Do it anyway.

Any great author or freelance writer will tell you this.

Use the tips above to help create the ideal environment for writing to happen but without us stretching our will power muscle, it just ain’t gonna happen.

Willpower is like a muscle. The more we humans force ourselves to do things we don’t want to do at first the easier it’ll be the next time.

Here’s some ways to help will power grow:

– Create a daily exercise routine

Getting the blood flowing helps us think more quickly and clearly to write.

– Create a writing habit

If you get up and write every day for 30 days. On day 31 you’ll feel weird if you don’t write.

– Eat something that’s fun for your brain

Go for protein, fiber, and phytonutrients over sugar.

– Water

Our brain needs a lot of water to function. Give it a glass or bottle before you ask it to spill out coherent thoughts.

– Don’t bite off more than you can swallow

Create writing goals that are realistic. Start small and work to where you want to be daily.

I used to cringe at writing a sentence and then a paragraph. This seems silly now.

Write everyday, flex that will power muscle and soon writing a 60,000 word book won’t seem too daunting. It will just take some time.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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5 Thoughts on Writing an Epic Villain

What is the main goal of the villain?

Whether the villain knows it or not their main purpose is to oppose the protagonist and create conflict.

The villain or antagonist can take many forms

Our villain is extremely versatile and can take any form.

They could be human, animal, or even an event in nature.

In order to create an epic villain though, you will want it to be intelligent as these make the most emotionally striking villains.

There are a few villain archetypes we will mention below. 

We can have multiple villainous characters

Also it should be noted that you can have multiple characters that have goals against your main character but in the end it is best to have one that over arches the rest.

For example, in Harry Potter, Harry has many antagonists:

– Draco

– The Malfoy family

– Bellatrix Black

– Nigini

– Draco’s gang

– Death Eaters

Even some friends betray him along the way, but Voldemort outplays them all.

You can have a Gray Villain

This type of character would be labeled as dynamic.

We can do this type of characterization with any of our characters.

But with a dynamic villain that means that they may have some inner conflict about good and evil.

They may believe that the evil they do undershadows the overall good they are trying to accomplish.

An example would be Thanos.

He believed that the genocide he was carrying out was for the good of all living beings. Even though he murdered half the universe he believed that he was its unsung hero.

This would be a type of gray Villain.

They aren’t black and white.

They aren’t intentionally good or evil. They are somewhere in the middle which if done well causes conflict wand differing opinions amongst readers.

Think Loki. 

Sometimes Loki does evil things and sometimes he helps the hero. It all depends. He is a Gray villain.

As readers we aren’t quite sure what he will do next.

This keeps our readers on their toes with our villain. They never know what he’ll do.

Another good example is Kylo Ren.

A dynamic villain can have redemptive qualities like Kylo Ren.

This antagonist struggles with the light and dark side within him.

He does terrible things in the name of darkness, but in the end turns out to help the protagonist, our heroine Rey.

Which is a parallel to his grandfather and mentor Darth Vader who also struggled with the light and dark in him to eventually in the end be redeemed for attempting to destroy Sidious and save the Galaxy.

This is a dynamic villain.

                                                                        

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You can make a Static villain.

Again a static character can be any part of the cast, but the static character is 100% one thing and doesn’t change.

A static villain is purely 100% evil to the core.

As a writer we can hide that evil for a time but at the end of the story we will have revealed to the world that they were down right rotten and there is no saving them.

There are many good examples of static villains:

– Jafar

– Voldemort

– Hades

– Darth Sidious

– The depiction of the joker from Dark Knight

There is much inspiration to draw from for a static villain.

The more sinister you make them the better.

Try to reveal deeper and deeper over time that this villain is despicable.

Make your readers guess a little but in the end hit it home so there is no guessing.

“Some people just want to watch the world burn.” Alfred about the Joker. 

That’s a static villain. They take pleasure in evil.

Hope this helps!

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Make These 5 Writing Techniques a Part of Your Opening Scene to Hook Your Readers From Page One

Make These 5 Writing Techniques a Part of Your Opening Scene to Hook Your Readers From Page One

Opening scenes are extremely important.

It can’t be stressed enough that taking our time with the opening scenes and making sure that our reader will want to go along for the rest of our character’s journey is of the utmost importance.

Thankfully, there are definite time-tested techniques and writing skills to help us write an opening scene that will help hook our reader from page one.

Focus deeply on chapter one in your self-edit process.

Chapter one is easily our most important chapter.

It will be tried and tested the most.

The reader will test it.

The editor will test it.

Even friends and family will test and judge it to see if the rest of the book is worth reading.

Don’t hold anything back on chapter one.

Make 100% sure that it is going to draw our reader in and keep them engaged.

If they weren’t hooked by chapter one the rest of the book is pointless. Almost no one is going to read it.

How are we going to hook them?

We are going to give them a gift.

We are going to make them feel something.

Have you ever heard someone say, “we are going to watch this movie. It’s so good! Get ready for a tear-jerker!” They know from this phrase that it is going to make them cry but yet they watch it anyway.

It’s because people want to feel something.

And they will know from starting chapter one what they are going to feel emotionally by reading our book.

– Love and romance

– Heartache

– Resolution

– Empathy

– Sadness

– Horror

– Fun and excitement

– Thrill and suspense

– Adventure

What does our story promise them in the following chapters?

Give them a taste for it in chapter one.

Give them an unspoken promise that if they read on they will feel it more and feel that emotion again.

By giving them emotion we allow them to connect with our story on a deeper level.

Whatever genre your story is in use the emotion they feel to keep them going.

Give them something intellectual to look forward to.

We understand that emotion is important.

But intellectual enjoyment is important too.

What are we going to teach them about that they didn’t already know?

Will we show them how a detective solves a case?

Show them what it is like to be any one of these character types:

– Warrior

– Knight

– Surgeon

– Officer

– Astronaut

– Engineer

– Billionaire

– Genius

– Hobbit

– Wizard

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What world are we going to help them see into that they didn’t know much about before?

For this we must do great research if we are really to make it intellectually entertaining.

The closer it is to real life facts built into a story the better.

There are fictional parts we create and make up but if it’s about a real life scenario. The closer we can get to giving them insider information the better.

First lines matter but they aren’t your one-off hook.

I disagree with the idea that the very first line is your only chance at hooking your reader.

Don’t get me wrong. The first line is very important.

James Patterson talks about first lines and how important they are.

He spends time crafting them and is very proud of some first lines he’s come up with.

But a strategic first paragraph can be just as powerful.

The first should reveal the feel of the emotion the reader will feel throughout the story.

If horror then fear and shock.

If romance then love.

If suspense, make the first line build suspense or thrill.

The first line should be like an appetizer to an 8 course meal.

They should know from the appetizer what type of meal it is and that the meal is going to be delectable.

The promise of conflict.

We must above all else promise our reader one thing.

Conflict.

If you can’t creatively figure out how to give your reader interesting conflict throughout the tale, scratch that story and start on the next.

Conflict is the life-blood of storytelling.

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We must make our reader the promise of conflict and along with that promise, we must deliver resolution.

If we do not give them eventual resolution, they will feel cheated on the end and most likely will not bother with book 2.

Remember that in storytelling (as with all relationships in life) we are building trust and relationship with our readers.

One of the main reasons James Patterson does so well is that he made a promise to his fan readers long ago that if they grabbed one of his books it was going to deliver a certain set of promises.

What can you promise to entertain your reader with?

– Mystery

– Suspense

– Thrill

– Resolution

He made these unspoken promises to his readers and he never stopped delivering.

So fans keep coming to him because they can trust him.

That’s how we need to be.

Always making promises to our reader that if you read our story we are going to deliver what we promise.

Make promises and deliver on them and you won’t just hook your reader from chapter one but you’ll hook them through book 2-3-4-5-6 and beyond.

Start with the end goal in mind and being a great storyteller will be more possible.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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