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HELP!!! I w

HELP!!! 

I want to write a story, but I don't really know how. I might have a back-cover description in my head, but I can't write it. Other times, I don't even have an idea. Help?

 

Thanks,

Moonlight  

submitted by Moonlight , age 12, Ellesmera
(April 2, 2017 - 2:08 pm)

back to the Inkwell

What, specifically, is your problem? Are you bad at creating interesting plots? Well-written characters? Getting your ideas onto the page?

submitted by Embers in the Ashes
(April 2, 2017 - 2:57 pm)
submitted by nudge
(April 3, 2017 - 7:07 am)

Okay, so me getting ideas, is listening to zen music (Calming music) like something like calming but has a tad bit of dance twist. I just get a whole scene in my brain and stuff, that is what I do. But maybe you a diffrent and need just to lay on your back on the ground, and close your eyes and just thinks. Or maybe you have to whatch some book trailers to get that juice flowing in your head. 

submitted by Zen, age 13, China
(April 3, 2017 - 7:55 am)

Well, there's nothing wrong with anyone's style of getting ideas. It's different for everyone!  I like to write fanfiction for already existing books, so I read those books to get a sense of where I am and where and when my fanfiction exists.

What I do is right after I think of an idea, I write it down.  Then go off of that!  I had an idea that my Gravity Falls OC goes to a warrior school, and I have been typing on it since late August and it's 18 pages long.  (Not to boast or anything, I had some help) 

submitted by Lucy B., age 12, California
(April 3, 2017 - 8:11 pm)

Writer's block? Here's a simple cure to help get you writing.

This is really strange, but...go through the alphabet with opening sentence words. Such as, Alarmingly, Boredom, Centered, etc. It's a theory of mine.

Listen to music, have a snack, or just take a break. :) 

submitted by Icy
(April 3, 2017 - 8:51 pm)

If I'm having trouble being creative with one medium, I switch to another! Go get some colored pencils, water colors, paint, anything with color, and DRAW. Just draw. Don't try to plan it out, don't limit yourself. Just put colors on the page. There are no mistakes. Nothing looks 'bad'. Just draw and use color. There are no mistakes.

submitted by Cockleburr
(April 4, 2017 - 4:44 pm)

lit fam

submitted by
(April 5, 2017 - 9:07 pm)

The thing that helps me the most is to kick myself. I tell myself to start writing. It doesn't matter if I X-out everything I wrote the next day. The point is I wrote. I got my mind working. I gave myself new ideas. Even if I don't feel creative.

Of course if you just stare at a blank page for three hours, that isn't very good. If you can't think of anything to write, that also isn't very good. I doodle, I draw, I write rhymes, I write poems, I work up to where I am starting to write, then I start writing my story...and sometimes...SOMETIMES something magical will happen. 

HOWEVER! I always save old drafts, and little parts in a OLD note book, or document so that I will have more ideas and I can look back at what I wrote. 

Haha! XD that is how I finished my first novel anyway. Things after that got a little better, thank goodness!

I also listen to music, anything that you find nice and creative might work. 

I also make myself write everyday. Sometimes I go back a cross out what I wrote the day before, sometimes I only write a teeeeeny tiiiiiny bit. But it is still writing! Still creative! I value that. 

Maybe you are interested in doing NaNoWriMo, it is a really fun thing that I found helpful the first time I wrote a novel.  Camp NaNoWriMo starts in April! 

I hope some of this was a little helpful! Good luck with your story!

And now I quote the wonderful and AMAZING Gail Carson Levine (check out her blog she has AMAZING writint tips and you can talk to HER personally through "guests") 

"Have fun and save what you write!!" 

 

 

submitted by Silverwaxwing
(April 6, 2017 - 5:33 pm)