Yes, I Am a Writer. No, I Don’t Write. Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Yes, I Am a Writer. No, I Don’t Write. Is There Something Wrong With Me?
Yes, I Am a Writer. No, I Don’t Write. Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Yes, I Am a Writer. No, I Don’t Write. Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Tell me if this sounds like you:

“I have an idea. I open a document. I write a couple of the worst sentences. I daydream for an hour about the idea. I close the doc.”

“I start to search out some details about the time period. I get lost in Wikipedia for a couple of hours. I am only in the first paragraph.”

“I get inspired by a writing prompt. I open a document. I Google something related to the writing prompt, get lost on Google for an hour. I haven’t finished my third sentence.”

Do you think things like:

“My favorite thing to do is write, I’ll write half a sentence, get distracted, then come back to it months later.”

“I should be writing right now, but I’d rather look at Instagram.”

“I daydream about writing my stories, but then I don’t write them.”

“I want to write, but my anxiety and depression catch up with me when I try to create.”

If you’ve done, said, or thought things like this, you are absolutely NOT alone.

Many people struggle with these same writing blocks.

The question is: is there a way to beat it? Yes.

Is there a magical pill to swallow? No.

And this won’t help everyone. It might only help those that are willing to try.

Hopefully this helps you.

Read to write. Don’t just read.

One of the best and worst writing advice tips is to read if you want to be a writer. 

Well-meaning people go to read to write only to end up reading for hours and writing nothing. What happened?

In actuality it’s some of the best advice, but only if used correctly.

The real way to read if you are wanting to find inspiration to write is to know you’re putting yourself in danger of enjoying reading more than writing.

How do you beat that temptation?

The better way to give this advice would be to read with the intent of writing. Not with the intent of just enjoying reading.

Lots of people that love reading thinks they would also enjoy writing. This isn’t necessarily true. Reading is just pure consuming. Writing is pure output.

You do have to mostly consume in order to put something out, but if you are not EXTREMELY PURPOSEFUL about your reading, you can fall into a time-wasting trap.

Instead of reading for an hour, and calling it researching, read just to write.

Read until you find some words to write.

Writing exercise:

Here’s your writing prompt,

  • 10 Ways to get rid of loneliness.

Now Google ways to get rid of loneliness.

You’ll see a bunch of articles. Choose 3 quickly. Don’t read them yet.

Choose one and browse its subheadings. Pick just one subheading you like. Skim some of the text. Do you think it’s a good one? Write 3 sentences summarizing it. Boom. Rinse and repeat.

When you read to write you are looking for information to write. We are not looking for information to ONLY READ.

This is vastly important when it comes to researching and writing.

You can make a “notes” page and just copy and paste stuff into it that you like, but I don’t recommend this.

The sooner you are writing about what you were just reading a moment ago the better.

This type of reading to write stuff might seem like work at first but the more you do it the faster you’ll get and it will become enjoyable if you really do enjoy writing.

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Know that we are addicted to our distractions. 

As humans we often get addicted to things.

We get addicted to,

  • games
  • Movies
  • Tv
  • Social media
  • Reading
  • Etc

Be very aware of your addictions and say no to them during your writing time.

We can’t expect to be and to sit down and write if we have our favorite tv show on in the back.

You can’t write and surf Facebook. I can’t write and read Reddit subs. 

Whatever it is that pulls your attention from writing, just cut it out during that time.

Try these things:

  • go somewhere else for a while, like a coffee shop or library
  • Do NOT look at social media while trying to write.
  • Do not try to write in front of the tv
  • Don’t look up things you’re curious about that have nothing to do with what your writing
  • If a thought pops up that you want to come back to write it down quickly and get back to writing.

Plan “NO DISTRACTIONS” writing times.

Time won’t just open up for a good time to write. We have to actively plan it out and step into it. Make it a priority to start something today after you read this.

I recommend starting small. If you never take the time to write don’t start at an hour for your first session.

Try 5 minutes. No distractions just writing. If you can’t come up with something to write, look up a writing prompt then start a 5-minute timer AFTER you’ve found one (don’t waste 5 minutes finding a prompt and think that counts as writing time. I see you out there.)

Once 5 minutes doesn’t seem like enough time, keep bumping up that timer until you’re writing out full chapters at a time.

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Don’t overthink your first draft of ANYTHING. 

Many writers are “planners” by nature. We like to stop and think out a bunch of things all at once.

The good of this is being able to plot scenes and moves, the bad thing is overthinking…um… just about EVERYTHING in our lives and that includes our writing.

We want it to be perfect the moment it exists. This is an exercise in futility. It’s not a good way to actually write.

It’s better to get our ideas out there shabby and ragged and then go back later and fix things up and make them all pretty.

So don’t overthink your first draft just get what you’re thinking down so that you have something to work with later.

Write about what ails you.

If you suffer from depression or anxiety go ahead and write about it.

Try to put it into words. What does it feel like? How does it prevent you from doing what you want? Is it keeping you from life goals? What small steps can you take to start your way out?

Instead of thinking, “I’m terrible at writing,” just write stuff that only you will read for a while.

Spend a year writing for yourself in this way and you may find that you love writing and that after a year of writing for yourself you might be ready to submit something to someone else.

Writing anything down will give you a boost in good feelings as you start to see a pile of your writing stacking up.

Write fictional characters that suffer from the same things you do. Get it out and give your fictional characters hopes, dreams, and aspirations too.

Making fictional characters that have similar struggles to you will be interesting writing exercises for yourself and maybe others will resonate with those same fictional characters.

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Write many short stories.

One of the easiest ways to actually start writing is to just write a bunch of short stories.

It is a normal practice for famous writers like Niel Gaimen to have books filled with short stories.

Short stories are great because they help us give great ideas legs and if we really like them we will find ourselves giving them even more thought and writing than the ones that phase out.

Just try to write out ideas and turn them into short stories so it’s not so overwhelming and it’s more fun and rewarding than trying to write out every complete story idea we have.

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What is Writer’s Block?

What is Writer’s Block?

What is Writer’s Block?

What is Writer’s Block?

What is Writer’s Block?

I think that’s a more complicated answer than we’d like to think, but there is hope.

The simple answer can be found in a dictionary.

“the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.”

I think this definition is partially true, but I don’t think it covers all the reasons someone experiences writer’s block.

1. Fear

People might not realize it, but fear plays a big part of why many writers run into writer’s block symptoms.

It could be fear of failure. We can stop writing because we become paralyzed with the idea of anyone reading what we’ve written and calling it trash.

It could be fear of rejection. We could spend hours and days and weeks and months or even years writing a story only to hear a publisher say “No.”

In fact, many successful authors have.

It could be fear of not being good enough. What could be worse of all is that we spend all this work and effort on a project and in the end we find out how bad it really is. That can be devastating if someone was under the illusion that they were good and come to find out they really aren’t. And even worse if they aren’t willing to work past it and become better.

2. Laziness

Sometimes we say it’s writer’s block, but really we just don’t feel like working on it today. We’ve worked on it for hours and hours all week long and we want a break.

So on any given day we might sit down to write something and our brain just kind of turns off toward the project and deep down we really are okay with that as we don’t actually want to write anything today anyway.

3. Burnout

Close to laziness is burnout. We’ve stayed up until 2 am every night and right now the last thing we want to do is think about what to write next. 

We have a million things going on in our lives and each one of them stresses us out in a different way, and if we don’t take some time to rest we will most likely implode.

So that Friday deadline is looking more and more fierce as it comes piledriving at us in full force and nothing seems to be stopping it. The stress really builds up and the work becomes paralyzing when we stop to think about all the possible consequences of not getting it done on  time.

4. Creative block

This really is more of a normal case of writer’s block. 

We are slamming through the project and then suddenly, blam, nothing. All creative juices slam to a halt. What happened?

It’s hard to say. Usually this comes from a lack of research and planning.

Some authors and writers would say this almost never happens to them because they outline the entire story beforehand.

I would tend to agree with this notion. If we take the time to outline the entire thing and make sure we have enough resources to look through along the way when we run out of ideas I would think that the ability to see what’s coming next would be much stronger.

If you are the type of writer that just starts writing and sees where it ends up, I would say that you will face this problem more often than someone that outlines everything.

Confession: I am totally guilty of this on a daily basis. 

I am 100% by nature the type of writer that gets an idea and just starts writing. Where the idea came from can give me a bit of a heading but otherwise the story or project usually unfolds before me as I write it.

Now, learning from James Patterson I did pick some very powerful outlining tips that I have taken advantage of from time to time.

But on a normal basis I usually just sit down or lay down and start researching and writing.

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5. Not enough research

Since I am the type of writer that doesn’t naturally want to outline, this is where I can often run into writer’s block if I’m not careful.

Sometimes we don’t do enough research or we don’t have our research tabs organized in an easy fashion to be able to continue forward.

The last thing we want to do as people that have to get the project done is to sit down and stare at a blank page and a blinking cursor and try to think our way out of writer’s block.

Nope. We need to read about what we want to write and find interesting facts and thoughts to bring to the page. To do this we have to be CONSTANTLY researching.

For me, writing is not just writing. It is a never ending flow of reading, writing, reading, writing, reading, writing.

So make sure you don’t hit writer’s block because you’re not doing enough research.

To add to this, I should definitely say you can watch videos too if that’s more your speed.

I find that video learning and writing slows me down so I try to do it, but it’s not my personal go to.

I am much more trained and geared to skim quickly and write.

I say this because it is important for you as a writer to figure out how you learn best and utilize that as a strength. 

People learn differently. A close friend of mine learns very well through audio and video. He puts videos and podcasts on 2x speed and he’s off on the races. He’s learning and using what he learns that way.

I am not like that, as we discussed.

So it just goes to show, you have to try different things and figure out what works best for you.

5. Too tired

Writer’s block can come from simple things like being sleepy or tired.  The brain isn’t flowing at 100% and it needs to take a break or have sleep.

This can be a bigger factor than one might realize or expect. 

Sometimes it’s better to take a nap or go to sleep than grab that next cup of coffee. Unless it’s crunch time, then definitely grab the coffee.  🙂

6. Boredom

Sometimes it’s not writer’s block. It’s just boredom.

You might be bored with the genre your in, the story itself, or a character you’ve been working on. You could be bored with a scene, a lore, or a backstory that’s taking forever to hash out.

You might be bored with a copywriting or freelance project that just doesn’t have any interest to you whatsoever.

Whatever the scenario may be, boredom can really kill creativity. And if you are bored with a project it can feel like it takes a loooooooong time to get it finished and out of the way to make room for projects you care about.

Final Thoughts:

What is Writer’s Block?

Writer’s block seems to just be any amount of time where we run out of things to write, but the underlying causes could be any number of things.

There can be a plethora of reasons to attribute to any type of writer’s block you may be facing, but taking the time to understand your specific case of writer’s block can lead you to a quick solution on how to get rid of writer’s block.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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Is it imposter syndrome? Is it writer’s block? Or is it fear?

What is imposter syndrome?

Imposter syndrome can really be summed up as fear.

  • Fear of not being good enough
  • Fear of failure
  • Fear of letting others down

Which makes you wonder, “Am I experiencing writer’s block because I can’t think of anything to write, or is it actually fear?”

In most cases, it’s anxiety and fear. We sum up writer’s block as if it’s a catch-all for any reason I can’t write today.

But in reality, if we are honest with ourselves, fear stops us from writing.

– Fear of failure

– Fear of rejection

– Fear of not being good enough

– Fear of being made fun of

And, let’s be honest again if we don’t write, more than likely those things won’t happen about our writing because it doesn’t exist yet.

Therefore, no one can make fun of it and we can continue to toy with the story in our minds and talk about it with our friends without the worry of judgment over whether it’s actually good or not.

But how do we defeat this fear?

How do we get the courage to write out our story even when we are so worried about failure?

1. Write only 50 words.

You’re probably thinking that I’m joking.

Write only 50 words? Is this a trick? That’s like writing nothing.

Au contraire, my friend. That’s the point. It’s not nothing. It’s 50 words.

And it serves its purpose. It’s meant to make us relax when we head to write.

If I said write 10,000 or even 1,000 words that might sound daunting, but 50 words are essentially peanuts. It’s nothing.

So don’t worry, just relax and write 50 words.

If you end up writing more during your session, great. If you don’t, great. The goal was to get down 50 and you’ve accomplished your writing goal for today!

You should check it off your list and feel good about it.

The next time your mind is racing about all the reasons you shouldn’t write, just write 50 and call it a day if you don’t feel like writing more after that.

2. Lay down.

Famous authors have been doing this trick for years.

In fact, I’m doing it right now. (I’m not famous) That’s right. I do a good bit of my writing lying down. Not sure when it started, but it does have its perks and it helps make the writing process more relaxed.

This, in turn, can help us focus better as we write.

It is beneficial for our writing processes overall. It helps us relax while we write and we look forward to doing it again.

That is one of the keys to writing: do it in such a way that you look forward to doing it again.

If you make your writing procedure a humdrum that you cringe at, more than likely, you will quit before you really get into it.

If you are able to make ways to enjoy it. It’ll be much easier to do every day.

And as a writer that’s one of our main goals: to get ourselves to do it every single day.

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3. Don’t show it to anyone till it is done and pretty.

One of the reasons we get afraid to write is we worry what others will say about it.

This is a very normal fear.

Just because it’s normal doesn’t mean it goes away without some battling and effort.

One thing you can do to help yourself get over that fear is to never show your work before it’s finished.

Artists do this.

If you’re in the middle of a painting you would never want to show it to anyone, because it would look like some weird blobs.

And that’s because in the middle of the process there are some weird blobs.

Same thing with our stories. In the middle, there might be loose ends, bad wording, and bad grammar.

But if we keep it to ourselves and write out the entire thing before showing it to anyone this will take a huge weight of fear off of us just to write and not worry about it.

When you are in the process of writing, write as if no one is going to ever see it. Then you are free to write.

(In the editing process you can start to worry about people seeing it 😉 )

Bonus:

Someone might be wondering, “what if I want someone to read it in the middle to see if I’m on the right track?”

That’s totally fine. The point is to make you feel less nervous so you can actually start writing and not put it off because of fear.

In fact, if you are going to have someone sample it, I recommend polishing off a chapter or two and having them read it after you’ve edited them a bit.

Pick someone you trust and that also is interested in the genre you’re writing.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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How to Make Your Reader Care About Your Characters

How to Make Your Reader Care About Your Characters

We write our characters.

We think about them at lunch.

We dream about them. 

As writers in a weird way we are emotionally connected to the characters we create.

And thus we want our reader to connect with them and interact with them just as we do and have a fondness towards them.

One of the best ways to make your reader not care about them is to wane on and on about specific details about what they look like and what they act like.

We should avoid this.

It’s our job as writers to understand our characters deeply and reveal who they are through actions, inactions, and dialogue.

So how do we make our reader give two hoots about our awesome characters?

Give them something to lose

At any given moment in the story our character needs to be facing some type of conflict whether big or small.

We need to give our reader a reason to follow along as we reveal to them our beloved character.

Give them small things to lose

Some practical ideas of small things they could lose would be:

– An argument with another character

– They left their homework at home

– Forgot to do homework

– The bully steals their homework

– They have a huge zit they can’t hide

– They get to talk to a crush for the first time but forgot to brush their teeth that morning

– They are apprentice to a blacksmith and chipped the knife they were working on

– A thief steals their coin on the way to the market

– They live on a moon colony and they dropped their groceries outside the grocery store

You can see how the setting can be worked around or even used, but these problems they face are mostly small.

They have something to lose but it’s not life and death.

Use little problems like these to lead your character and reader to the big problems and the overarching biggest climatic problem.

As you take your character through little problems your reader will start to feel invested in who your character truly is at heart.

They will start to be concerned for them.

Keep in mind there is a caveat here.

In order for them to care about these characters, the character has to have some redeeming qualities.

They do not have to be perfect. I advise against that. Do not try to make them flawless.

Give them flaws and redeeming qualities.

Give them a strategic main character to follow

In order for them to care about our characters they have to get to know them.

A few ways to let our readers know our characters:

– From the view of the narrator (you can tell them the thoughts and feelings of whoever you want)

– From the view of the main character only (they only ever know what the main character is thinking and feeling)

– From the view of the main party (they get to see inside a band of characters)

So this can really be done anyway you prefer but if we are going to get them to like them and care about them losing stuff then we have to help our reader get to know them through a certain lens.

We can follow one character that interacts with all other characters.

We can follow a group of main players that we know the inner thoughts of and any one of them at any time could have individual moments with side characters.

This doesn’t mean our side characters can’t be interesting or noteworthy.

When Happy Days was in its prime, the directors and producers would specifically introduce new side characters to audiences to see how they would react.

If the reception was good, they would create a new TV show around those firstly side characters.

So you can take a side character and make them stand out as much as you want for as long as you want.

But whoever you decide to have the story play through, make sure your reader can follow a cohesive story line or it might get confusing.

Make your reader aware of your character’s emotional distress

Whether we want to admit it or not we are emotional creatures.

And with that we enjoy watching characters go through emotional rollercoasters just like we do from day to day stress.

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Help your reader see your character’s emotions:

– regrets

Almost everyone has a past. And most pasts come with regrets.

What are your character’s regrets?

– Worries/ Fears

What is your character worried about?

What does your character’s worries have to do with the main plot line?

– Character Flaws

Like we said earlier, do not make your character perfect.

Give them realistic character flaws that your reader can relate to.

By giving our characters these traits we can seamlessly invite our reader into our characters.

Ideas for character flaws:

– Selfish

– Self-loathing

– Arrogant

– Steals

– Harbors resentment

– Greedy

– Lazy

– Know-it-all

– Show-off

– Etc

Flaws are a good way to lead the reader into the characters emotional distress as their flaws create conflict with other important characters and strangers.

These flaws can lead to hurt and broken relationships and leave room for redemption and second chances.

Turn up the heat

We aren’t talking about romance.

We are talking about taking your characters from the frying pan and into the fire.

You can take your character through many small problems to get your reader to care for them but we also need to put them through even bigger difficult situations.

Ways to make your character’s problems seem big to your reader by creating tension:

– Create a time sensitive event

Nothing creates more tension than setting a timing and telling someone. You have this much time to do this OR ELSE.

In fact a popular TV show was made around this entire premise. Remember 24?

We were just watching Nonstop the other night with Liam Neeson and the entire movie the villains have him wrapped up in time tension.

“Every 20 minutes someone on this plane will die if you don’t give us 150 million dollars.”

It’s worked a million times before and it’ll work again.

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Use timed tension.

– Use the character’s career or reputation

Nobody wants to lose the respect they’ve earned over years and years of hard work.

Nobody wants to lose the company they’ve built.

We don’t want to lose a high paying career.

These are examples of high stake things that we can use to make our reader worry for our characters. Especially if they are being blackmailed or wrongly accused.

– Hunger Games: survival tension

I just said Hunger Games because it is the epitome of survival tension.

There are many stories that use this form of tension as well.

Put your character into a situation where they have to survive dangerous encounters with people, nature or other beings and you’ll create the nail biting tension you need to make your reader care about your character.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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You love to write and you want to write well.

We want our reader to gobble up every page and to always be wondering “what’s next?!”

But how do we know we are writing in such a way that our story will become a coveted “Page Turner?”

How do we know that when our reader talks about our story they’ll say “Oh! I read that! I couldn’t put it down!”

“Couldn’t put it down…” We long to hear those words about our stories that we have mulled over and lived through.

We won’t know for sure until it is in their hands and under their eyes, but there are some writing techniques that can help us write page turners.

Make your reader worry by adding suspense

Suspense is a pivotal skill in creating a page-turner.

Suspense helps the reader feel like something bad is about to happen so they must know what will happen next because it could be a good or bad outcome for the characters involved.

Create suspense by creating a time sensitive event

A time sensitive event could be big or small.

For example, “We need to figure out the code in 60 seconds or the alarm will sound!”

That is a small amount of time and maybe a minor event but it still creates a moment of suspense for your reader.

It creates a moment where they are thinking and feeling, “What is going to happen next?”

Another example, “if we don’t stop him from reaching his destination, he will release the virus on London.”

How much time do we have?“- classic suspense question

“He’s already on his way. We only have 16 Hours.

This scenario has more time and more people are at stake but still creates time sensitive suspense.

In order to create real suspense in our reader’s mind the stakes have to be high.

Always make it that characters that the reader cares about will lose big time if they don’t accomplish their goal.

The what if

You can call this the “what if.”

You want your reader to feel the what if:

– “What if they don’t get there in time?!”

– “What if they release the virus?!”

– “What if the bomb goes off?!”

– “What if the alarm goes off?!”

If we can create questions like this in our readers minds, then we are doing our job as writers that create suspense.

Create question marks that you are ABSOLUTELY going to answer at some point

Let’s say we are with Bruce Wayne (Batman, for those living in non comic inhabited caves) and Bruce is with Alfred strolling through his collection of gadgets and he picks up a grenade that is implanted in the core of a real apple.

He says, “Alfred, how did this apple get down there?”

He goes to take a bite.

Alfred stops his hand.

“That’s not an apple sir. That’s a bomb. The apple core is infused with C4 and the detonator is specifically vibration sensitive to it being bitten. After you take a bite you have 15 second to place it before it detonates.”

“Hmmm, they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but in this instance I guess not.”

Now as a reader I’m not assuming this interaction was just to create a silly pun.

I want to see Batman use this apple bomb somewhere, somehow.

As a writer when you bring up a specific item you should be bringing it up for a reason.

Don’t tell your reader how your are going to use it yet.

Make it a “Question mark moment.”

Leave your reader wondering”how is Batman going to use that and when?”

Questions like these (and you should have many of them throughout your story) will give your reader a reason to keep reading.

They will want to pick the book up again after taking a break.

Revisit questions to add to the payoff

In your story you might mention a particular side Character.

They may bump shoulders with your character at the train.

Then later they see them at a coffee shop.

They see them again at a party and exchange words.

At this point you’ve created curiosity in your reader’s mind, “who is this character and why do they keep popping up.”

Now, depending on the genre of your story this could be a new budding romance or a deranged serial killer.

Only you can tell.

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But the more you bring up this person the more your reader will be waiting and longing for you to share why they are there.

We can do this with objects too.

In chapter one Bruce almost bit the apple.

In chapter 3 Robin could be riding in the cockpit and say, “Bruce I’m starving. Did Alfred put anything in here to eat?”

“Yeah” Wayne says, “check the black bag behind your seat.”

There are two black bags behind Robin’s seat. In one he sees a shiny red apple. He grabs it and pulls it to his face. He looks it over and goes in for a bite.

Bruce puts his hand in front of his mouth. “I said the black bag.”

“I did get it out of the black bag!”

“Let me see.”

Robin pulls up the black bag. Bruce looks into it. “Not that one. That’s not an apple.”

“Not an apple?! Well what is it then?”

“It’s a bomb.”

“Oh…” Robin gently puts it back into the bag and sets it slowly behind his seat.

They’re both silent for a moment.

“I’m beginning to think bombs and fruit don’t go well together.”

Again a comic relief moment but not the one, as a reader, that we’re anticipating.

We’ve seen the apple bomb twice now. And both times it almost kills our heroes but we have yet to see it used strategically by Batman (the hero of unbelievable gadgets) in a way that satisfies our gadget lust.

Having multiple moments surrounding an object or person can create more curiosity and thus bigger payoff when things are finally revealed.

Have multiple hooks working for you

In our stories it is necessary to create suspense and curiosity in almost every scene.

We can’t just say, “if the bad guy wins then the world dies,” and expect our reader to be engaged for the entire story without adding additional “hooks” (suspense and curiosity).

Create curiosity and suspense in every scene (well almost every scene)

Most stories have the long question: “Will our heroine beat the bad guy?”

“Will he find true love?”

“Will he solve the murder?”

“Will they survive?”

But along the way we as writers need to create many small questions to be answered too.

“Will she survive the booby trap?”

“Will they get over this argument?”

“Will they survive the affair?”

“Will she lose her business?”

“Will he get fired?”

Smaller questions help lead the reader to answering the Big question.

Bad stuff happens in real life, allow bad stuff to happen to characters

If we want our reader to keep page turning we need to teach them that the threat our character is facing is actually a threat.

How do we teach them that the threat is real?

By allowing bad stuff to happen sometimes.

If nothing bad ever actually happens to our characters we will inevitably teach our reader the wrong lesson: nothing bad ever happens to character therefore I don’t need to be worried about this problem they’re facing. They’ll be fine.

At this point, we’ve almost lost them.

They’ll surely be losing interest soon.

So instead teach them that the problems are real and worth being concerned about by letting bad things happen.

Use other page-turners

A great practice is to think of page-turners you’ve read.

Think of books you just couldn’t put down.

What did the author do that made you want to keep going and never put the book down?

Learn to read books and consume TV and movies critically in order to use the same techniques they used to keep you hooked for every juicy page.

Hope this helps!

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5 Tips on Naturally Writing Effective Dialogue

5 Tips on Naturally Writing Effective Dialogue

I’ll be the first one to say that I don’t love writing dialogue.

The actual task of recording down their conversation is quite un-riveting for me personally.

That being said, analyzing dialogue and the actual process of creating it, thinking through it, and revealing character using dialogue is quite fun.

It shows your reader:

– What’s going on in characters heads

– What their normal life is like

– Into scenes that they might otherwise not be able to see

– The story

– What makes characters different

– What makes them similar

– It can persuade your reader to believe something about a character that may end up being a great twist later

– Suspense

– Drama

– Conflict

– It also makes pages easier to read through

Think about people talking normally.

When you’re out the next time to the movies or mall or restaurant, out to the groceries or whatever.

Be purposeful to hear the way people talk to you and others.

Even think about the way you speak to others and your mannerism.

You can log this information away as normal speech patterns.

The more people and cultures you interact with the more dialects and different speech patterns you find.

But a great way to figure out how to give your characters the right words and thoughts is to listen to people in your real life.

Talk your dialogue out loud.

Another great dialogue practice is to have your character’s conversations out loud with yourself and maybe your editor or friend. Whoever you have that’s willing.

When you hear it out loud it gives it an entirely new feel and it’ll be easier to tell if it sounds weird, odd, or abnormal.

Draft it out.

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard when it finally comes to sitting down and typing it out on the keys is to write it out without making many punctuations at first.

Just let the words flow fast and naturally so that you can feel what it’s going to look like and sound like right away without stopping much to be distracted by punctuation

Don’t be overly concerned with he said, she said just yet except to just keep it organized.

This will really free you up to create the dialogue and have it come out right rather than being bogged down in the first draft by all the writing technical work.

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Add the punctuation after you feel the dialogue is right.

Take your time in the editing process of your dialogue to make sure it sounds natural and each character has their own voice just like a real human.

When their talking and interaction seems right for them add the punctuation.

This helps compartmentalize the creative process from the technical process.

Common dialogue pitfalls to watch out for.

– Don’t overuse names.

Overusing someone’s name in real life is weird and it’s weird in writing too. Unless your character is a creepy salesperson.

– Try not to create a repetitive chain of information.

If you need two characters to talk about information that you already introduced once just make it that the second character found out from another source.

“Did you hear about so and so?”

“Yeah I did. Jackie just told me. Crazy right?”

– People in real life day umm a lot and make filler noise. Characters do not mostly.

Take this thought liberally as every once in a while it helps make a certain character to give them a weird noise that they make while they are thinking, but for the most part, cut it out.

– Get on get out.

Make each line have a purpose. 

Most characters shouldn’t talk too much. And other characters shouldn’t talk too little but our dialogue needs to have a point and move the characters forward in the plot. 

If they decide to head for Starbucks to gab about ‘whatever’ in reality one of the characters is about to bump into someone important. 

Otherwise they need to be meeting up at Starbucks to discuss things that are important to the plot and revelation of character.

– Help the reader see who’s talking without being annoyingly redundant.

He said.

She said.

He asked.

She said.

We don’t have to add ‘they said’ at the end or beginning of every quotation.

The goal is to just make sure that we are clearly letting the reader know who is talking and then write the dialogue in such a way that they can skim through and it’s very clear who is saying what even if we stop writing he said/she said/ she asked, etc.

Make your main goal to just tell the story and make it simple. Don’t be tempted to over display what they are feeling with adverbs while they speak.

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Happy writing!

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Abraham Lincoln. You might remember him as honest Abe or you might not know who he is at all.

But his story is a powerful and persuasive one.

Abraham Lincoln

You see, Abe wanted to get into politics. We would imagine he didn’t like the way things were being run and wanted to make some changes of his own to the country’s political landscape.

The only problem was he wasn’t a very good politician.

He was running for state legislature and kept losing. His life wasn’t going anywhere except failure.

He became immensely depressed in his failures. So much so that his friends took all of his knives and razors away from him because they were afraid he would Jill himself.

He broke off is engagement to the woman he loved.

His life kept getting worse.

He ran for the senate not once but TWICE and lost BOTH TIMES.

You would think someone would think, “I’m not made for this,” and choose a different career path at this point.

But in 1860 Abraham runs as a “dark horse candidate” for the presidency and WINS!

He failed so many times for so long in his life but never quit and ended up winning the presidency instead of those lesser goals he tried for but it would seem that all the hard times he went through prepared to be the president of the United States at a very pivotal time in history.

He didn’t allow loss and adversity to prevent him from moving forward.

Teddy Rosevelt

Teddy’s story is a bit different.

Teddy was a well educated young man planning on becoming a naturalist but when everyone least expected it he suddenly ran for state legislature and to everyone’s surprise he won.

At this time his wife is pregnant with their first child and his mother who is only 49 comes out to his house in New York to help take care of his wife while he’s working in government.

This is when tragedy strikes.

For a brief moment everyone is elated as a telegram arrives for Teddy.

It says his child is born.

Everyone celebrates with cigars.

But not many hours later a second telegram arrives.

It says, you must return immediately. Your wife is dying and your mother is dying too.

It turns out that his mother had contracted typhoid fever upon arriving in New York.

Teddy arrived at home in time to see his mother before she died and about 12 hours later his wife dies too.

Teddy thought his life was over.

At this point he essentially runs away. He quits the legislature and moves out to the Badlands and rides his horse for reportedly 15 hours a day.

During this time he falls in love with nature and becomes quite a conversationalist.

He gains a deeper perspective on life and eventually goes back to run for the presidency.

Sometimes getting an outside perspective on things can lead to a deeper understanding of the big picture we need to move forward. And breaks aren’t always bad, but if Teddy has decided never to run again he might not have accomplished all that he did.

He did indeed quit for a time but ultimately he got back up “on the horse “ and kept going.

Rejections

You might not know it but MANY of your beloved authors have been rejected many times before finally being published.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: rejected 144 times.

Canfield once wrote, “If we had given up after 100 publishers, I likely would not be where I am now,”

“I encourage you to reject rejection. If someone says no, just say NEXT!”

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Lisa Genova, Still Alice: rejected 100 times (some of those were just non-responses)

She eventually decided to self published. It got picked up after that.

Kathryn Stockett, The Help: 60 rejections. 

She wrote, “In the end, I received 60 rejections for The Help,” 

 “But letter number 61 was the one that accepted me. After my five years of writing and three and a half years of rejection, an agent named Susan Ramer took pity on me. What if I had given up at 15? Or 40? Or even 60? Three weeks later, Susan sold The Help to Amy Einhorn Books.” The book was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 100 weeks.

It sold over seven million copies, and has been made into an inspiring award winning movie.

Heidi Durrow, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: 48 rejections.

“When I was trying to publish my book, it received some 48 different rejections from publishing houses mostly because people said to me that there was no market for a story about a half black half Danish girl. There was no Afro Viking demographic to sell this book to.” 

Dispite the adversity her book was the winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. The award came with a publishing contract and it became a bestseller.

One of my favorite authors James Patterson: James Patterson, The Thomas Berryman Number: 31 rejections.

Patterson’s first book was turned down by 31 publishers and he kept a list.

31 publishers turned down Patterson’s first book. The first of many in his extremely popular Alex Cross series. Now, of course, he’s one of the most successful authors in the world, arguably in history. 

He told the New York Times that he kept a list of all the editors that turned down his first novel. “Sometimes they send me books and ask for blurbs. Mostly, though, they’re dead.”

Stephen King, Carrie: 30 rejections. 

30 publishers rejected his first novel Carrie, the one that started King’s legendary novel journey.

One day he received a short letter from Bill Thompson at Doubleday:

“Congratulations. Carrie officially a Doubleday Book. Is $2500 advance okay? The future lies ahead. Love, Bill.”

And what was at that time their future is now our history.

The one thing that makes or breaks a successful entrepreneur is perseverance.

This key trait can be used in so many different avenues and career paths.

The thing is that most of us won’t be handed success in our endeavors so easily.

We inevitably will meet adversity and when that adversity comes what will we do?

I believe you have it in you to persevere and keep going despite adversity coming your way.

And as many we’ll have gone Beckies is would most likely admit that the adversity helped mold them into who they are today and who knows where they would be if they didn’t persevere and remain persistent despite many challenges.

Persevere.

Hope this helps! 

Happy writing!

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3 Mental Muscles You’ll Need to Flex to Be a Freelance Writer

3 Mental Muscles You’ll Need to Flex to Be a Freelance Writer
3 Mental Muscles You’ll Need to Flex to Be a Freelance Writer

3 Mental Muscles You’ll Need to Flex to Be a Freelance Writer

If you’re interested in becoming a freelance writer you’re not alone.

Many aspiring writers are looking to join the freelance movement, work from home, make money online, and be their own boss.

If you’re going to take this journey though and be realistic about it. You’re going to want to keep some things in mind.

It’s not for the faint of heart but if you’re willing to do these three things you’re much more likely to succeed then those that don’t.

Be fearless

Being fearless sounds hard because let’s be honest, who isn’t a little intimidated to try new things?

I tend to believe that almost everyone is but those that do it usually tend to try new things and take on some risk feeling the fear but doing it anyway.

If you’re serious about freelance writing, you are definitely going to have to go out of your comfort zone to find work, make pitches, and hopefully fulfill projects handed to you.

Sometimes it’s easier to find the work and get the job.

Then all the sudden you realize, “oh crud…I actually have to deliver something good to them…” as you stare blankly into outer space.

It takes a bit of fearlessness to hand over your writing to an editor in the hopes that they don’t call it absolute trash and fire you.

But that’s a part of the freelancing game. You are always a little at risk of your client not liking what you deliver.

But not to fear, if you don’t give up you are likely to make it in the freelance business.

Don’t fear failure

You are going to fail.

It is almost inevitable.

You might be thinking, “gee Jeremy, thanks for the inspirational confidence booster.” Just follow me here.

You are going to fail, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. No.

The bad thing would be to quit after a failure thinking fallacy that you aren’t good enough.

Of course you are good enough. You just need more time, practice, and study.

Don’t be afraid to fail and don’t be so quick to quit.

Ask for help

Humility is hard.

It is hard to admit that we need help on something.

The opposite of this is pride. Pride will tell you that you don’t need help. That you’ll be better off figuring it out on your own.

Don’t reinvent the wheel. There are many people that have done this first and you can avoid their mistakes by asking for help.

Here are some ways you can ask for help:

– Do research

– Buy a course

– Buy a book

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If you’re going to be a freelance writer you are going to have to do tons of research, so get used to it.

I personally have bought several courses on things like copywriting, affiliate marketing, and running ads.

Sometimes it will accelerate your progress if you just invest in yourself and buy that course you’re thinking about.

To go along with that same thought, books are very helpful.

And just a bonus tip: learn the skill of skimming well. Being able to skim large sections of books and articles will save you hundreds of hours.

Conclusion

Most people aren’t actually “fearless”, but pushing through the fear of failure and rejection will be paramount in a freelancing career.

And every freelancer should look for ways to avoid the mistakes that others have made before them.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Even here, don’t let fear stop you from posting a comment and asking for advice. Someone that’s already gone through what you’re going through might read it and be able to save you some trouble.

You’d be surprised how many people enjoy helping others 🙂

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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1 Bad Writing Tip You Can Cut Out Right Now That’ll Make Your Writing 10X Better

There is one thing that many authors do.

It could be by accident. It could be on purpose.

But if you cut out just this one thing, your writing will be better to read instantly.

What is that one thing?

Passive voice.

Now this doesn’t mean we can Never use passive voice as authors.

It just sounds better and it’s less wordy if we don’t. And less wordy is almost always better.

What is passive voice?

Passive voice makes the object look dominant to the subject.

For example, passive voice would say,

– The book was thrown by the student.

– The guitar was played by the musician.

– The door was opened by the driver.

Instead as writers we mostly want to use active voice.

What is active voice?

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Active voice makes the subject the emphasis over the object.

For example,

– The student threw her book.

– The musician played the guitar.

– The driver opened her door.

You can tell from the examples that active voice makes each sentence more concise and more clear. Not to mention it just sounds better.

It’s less wordy. And less wordy is less stress on the brain to figure out what is happening and why.

We want our reader to flow through our sentences and not think about the fact that they are reading.

We don’t want them to have to stop to think about which is the object and which is the subject.

We just want to be clear the first time.

How do I find passive voice in my writing?

The fastest way is to look for the subject and the object in each sentence.

If you can find those then you’ll see whether the object of emphasized or the subject is.

Passive,

– The mouse was chased by the cat.

Active, 

– The cat chased the mouse.

Cut out “was”and “were” from most of your sentences when you can.

When to use passive voice?

If you want to put the dominant thought onto the object instead of the subject then use passive voice. Otherwise just default to active voice.

So there you have it.

One of the easiest things to do to improve your story is to run away from passive voice and never look back.

Your sentences will be easier to read.

Your reader won’t have to stop to think about what is acting upon what.

Your sentences will be less wordy.

Cut out passive voice and your writing will be better today.

It is an easy and steadfast trick to making any story or project perform better with little effort.

Go back and look at some of your past writing to see how often you use passive voice.

If you change it, does it look better?

Do you notice the difference when you emphasize the subject instead of the object?

To make your ideas more clear for your reader, cut out passive voice.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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The cliffhanger is not a new technique. 

In fact, writers have literally made movies around the idea of dangling our beloved character off the side of a cliff to get us at the edge of our seats, biting our nails, ignoring everything else in the universe to see “what happens next?!”

Thankfully even though this technique has been waaaaayyy overused. It still works.

We can definitely add this one to the proverbial toolbox.

Keep it simple

We don’t always have to dangle our character over a cliff in order to make this technique work.

In reality, this won’t work if we do it too much. Our reader will see through our antics and get bored.

If our main character almost dies at the end of every chapter hanging over a cliff, you can bet the reader will be saying “fool me twice, shame on me” by chapter three.

Instead find creative ways to make little cliffhangers during chapters and at the end of chapters.

Them almost dying at the end of every chapter makes for boring and not suspensful, but if they were about to lose a relationship, or be caught doing something they shouldn’t and the reader has to go to the next chapter to find out what happens next, then you’re winning.

Examples:

– Characters are in a fight and might break up

– Something is about to hurt character like a dangerous animal

– One character just went missing

– A character just witnessed another doing something suspicious and unexplainable

Basically we want to create a smaller conflict that needs to be resolved in our reader’s mind that will gnaw at their curiosity until they get the answer.

This works best if we have done a good job of getting them interested in the characters’ lives and feelings.

Keep creating questions

We have to be careful how we do this one.

If we create a question for our reader to look forward to the answer, we better darn well answer it.

And a great skill to practice is the creative ability to create questions when we give answers.

Use dialogue to help the reader see the answer and the next question.

Dan Brown does an amazing job with this in the DaVinci Code

He uses Langdon in this way.

Langdon will answer one of the mysterious questions, one of the riddles, but then he’ll say something to the effect of, “but if that’s true then what about this?

And then Langdon will say, “we need to go to the Sistine Chapel,” and before we know it Langdon is being shot at on the way to the Sistine Chapel and we’re hooked to find out if he’ll make it.

This is genius for answering a question we made and leading the reader right into the next one without drawing it out to much and leaving the reader bored as they wait for the next riddle to solve.

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Your character can simply say, “this answers this question, but now we have this question to deal with.”

Now when your character needs to go to the next place we are happily following along.

It would be a bad idea to have no reason for your character to go to the next place and we just somehow end up there and stumble upon the next clue.

This technique can be toyed with, but I think you get the idea.

Create questions while answering questions, but BE SURE to answer all your questions eventually. Don’t leave your reader feeling cheated of the time they invested in reading your story.

Make them feel like they can predict what’s going to happen next, only to fool them.

Lead your reader into the most obvious choice or answer to the riddle.

And just when they think they’ve figured it out, put a twistaroo on it. (twistaroo is not a real word 🙂 )

This is called a good twist.

One of my all time top 10 fave twist moments was in the Sixth Sense. “I see dead people.”

I recommend watching it if you haven’t and as long as you aren’t easily spooked.

Spoiler alert:

The twist in the end was so shocking to me, I never saw it coming that Bruce Willis was dead the entire time.

It was like a left hook sucker punch for me and I, to this day cannot think of a better twist or reveal. Now that I think about it, it’s easily in my top 5 twisty movies.

So just like that, lead your reader into thinking that they know where you’re headed just to cut them off at the pass.

Surprise them wherever you can and they’ll love you for it.

Give them something to look forward to at the start

Don’t waste any time setting your reader up for cliffhangers.

Get started right away in chapter letting them know they are in for a fun ride.

Our main job as writers is to entertain.

Start off with a bang:

– “That’s the moment he knew he’d never see her again.”

– “As he looked at the clock sweat began to fall off his nose. He was taking to long.”

– “Bubbles were still surfacing as I dove into the river after the sinking suburban.”

Create mystery, intrigue, and suspense right away.

Don’t waste time explaining the plot, characters, or other detailed ideas. Allow the plot to unfold without them thinking, “oh so the plot is going to be about this.”

Allow your reader to discover clever ideas as you get them to turn the next page with cliffhangers.

Don’t let the reader in. Don’t show all your cards too quickly.

Be strategic.

Set up a powerplay by creating a moment of intense intrigue and use it to carry your reader to the next plot point without them knowing how they got there.

Entertain them as you reveal that your character’s mother is the true villain and everything they were raised to think was a lie.

It’s absolutely okay and maybe a good idea to make your reader confused and in the dark as long as you are going to show them the light and solve their confusion by the end of the story.

Never leave your reader feeling, “Why did I just read that? What was the point of all that?”

Give them something to continually look forward to or else they will look forward to it elsewhere.

Hope this helps!

Happy writing!

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