5 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing

Sometimes we just need a little inspiration or encouragement to write – those times when we’re uncertain if the manuscript we’re working on is any good, the times when writer’s block hits. Here are some great tips to get the creative juices flowing (click the linked title for the full article):

• What makes a person a ‘writer’? 
Authors find pleasure in their work – and so do readers – when living like a writer. No, that doesn’t mean having an open booze bottle next to one’s tablet or spending days in a coffee shop toiling at a laptop. To be a writer doesn’t mean to take on the affectations of famous authors who’ve come before.

• Envision your success 
Spend a few minutes imagining yourself a published, successful writer. Write for 15 minutes as pretending to be that vision of what you one day will be. 

• Read trashy writing 
Do you dream of becoming a writer but find yourself questioning your own ability to write? You night just need a little inner encouragement.

• Apply what you liked 
Re-read a story or a chapter of a book that you’ve really enjoyed. As reading, think about what made the passage beautiful.

• To write is to progress 
All too often, writers will read over their manuscript and then toss it down in disgust. Sure, they wrote a thousand words. Sure, there was a line or two here and there that sounded really good. But because the manuscript never matched the quality of her favorite authors or what she was aiming for writing no longer is pleasurable but becomes something to be avoided.

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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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