Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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How to spark creativity

Do you remember the last time you had that great idea?
In a flash, you had the whole story laid out in front of you and your mind's eye.
But now you're looking at a new story and not sure where to go. Below are a few ideas on how to get started with a new story in how to spark your creativity for writing a new short story where the beginnings of a new novel.

Try jotting down ideas on a piece of paper. This is similar to what some people call mind mapping. Start in the center of the paper with one idea, usually a sentence. Draw a circle around that one sentence and start brainstorming ideas off of that. Draw lines from the first idea to the second idea, see how they relate. Possibly, there will be offshoots of your first or second circle. This is great! This is what you want. You want to have many ideas related to each other. Some of these ideas may be the main storyline for your story, while others will be subplots for the story. And some of those ideas will go off on tangents and might not be good for the story and save them anyway, you might need them later for a different story.

Many writers take a drive to clear their minds. They may take a mini recorder with them while driving as the silence and the scenes spur creativity.

Some writers like to sit in coffee shops and observe others which gives some great insight into characters and will give them great ideas for a character driven story.

The most important thing to remember here is that you may have to take a step away from your computer or your journal and get outside of your normal thinking patterns to come up with great stories.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

How to write through the middle of your book

For many people, starting and ending a novel is the easier part of writing. That is, if there really is an easy part to writing a novel! However, the middle of the book is where things start to bog down for many writers. I know I have had my share of slogging through the marshy wetlands of the second act.

So how do you get through writing the middle of your book?

I think it all boils down to having a good idea of what the story is about. If you have a solid story line, you should be able to work from that. Think about the character motivations, which should follow along with the story line. Then expand out from there.

What you are trying to achieve here are smaller sub plots to fill in the gaps when the main story line is slogging down and you don't know where to go with it quite yet. Here are a few things to think about.

What does character x want out of life?
What is their main passion?
Do they want to improve something in their life?

Aside from the main story line, what does x want to achieve within the context of this story.
As you can see, having a healthy idea of what and who your character is all about will benefit you greatly when trying to come up with sub plots.

To sum up: When the story seems to slow down, shift gears and punch it up with a sub plot. Just be sure to tie up this sub plot somewhere before the end of the book.

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Friday, November 09, 2007

For Plots, think about what the bad guy would do.

If you'r stuck somewhere in the middle of your book and you don't know where to go. Or if you are looking to beef up your word count as we get into the middle of NaNo, you can try this for figuring out where to go with your sub plots and developing your sub plots.
In addition, I use this to figure out the main plot line of my story.
I start with the motivations of my bad guy and figure out why he does what he does and what he hopes to gain. Then I go about figuring out how he would accomplish what he wants to achieve.
This is a great way to 1. Figure out your subplots by taking the angle of the antagonist and 2. You can use this to figure out what you're antagonist is going to do and then reverse this so that you now know what your protagonist has to do.
It's worked for me and hopefully it will work for you.
If you don't understand this, or want to me to expand on this shoot me an email at www.popwebcity@hotmail.com.
I will try to respond to everyone just after I get my 1,667 words in for the day.

NaNo Wrimo Month

It's almost the middle of Nano Wrimo and hopefully everyone is going along well with their writing. I will be posting some ways to help you kick start your creativity for the middle of your book.
Hopefully, this will help you get to the 100,000k mark.


Just kidding...the 50K mark. Stay tuned.