Sometimes we just need a little inspiration or encouragement to write – such as those moments when we’re uncertain if the manuscript we’re working on is any good or the moments when writer’s block hits. Here are some great tips to get the creative sparks flying (click the linked title for the full article):
• Help, don’t help
Once you know your dream, to live it you must get your priorities in order. List at least three activities that don’t help you achieve your dream.
• Go off the grid
Among the biggest distractions are social media and the Internet. When unable to come up with the next line, the urge is strong to answer the latest email or to troll through our friends’ posts.
• Profound aspirations
Why do you write? To feel more fully alive? To give the world meaning and purpose?
• Set a goal to succeed
You may feel the reason your writing time isn’t productive is because you don’t have a way to measure it. If so, consider setting a goal each day for writing.
• Overcoming obstacles
Think about another project that you started but didn’t finish. Why were you unable to finish?
• Read in your genre
Check out a book from the library or purchase one for your ereader. Make sure the book is from the genre you write in. Set aside 15 minutes every day to read it.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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