Writing Tip # 1
Writing tip #1….
Write!
I know, it’s hard, it’s frustrating, it could be annoying staring at a computer screen for hours on end, but how do you expect to get any better? What should you write about? Anything. Even if it is something insane like a dolphin that flew into a volcano to save the Watermelon King (I was seven when I wrote that), but it made me happy and that’s the point. If it makes you happy and takes you away for even a little bit, then write about it. Who cares if others are going to like it because as a writer, you’re not going to please everybody.
I look at those silly stories I wrote as a kid and thought about revising them into something more or heck! Why not just leave them as kid stories? When we’re kids, anything was possible. The floor was lava, the vacuum was a monster and the dog was a shark. The point of writing is to escape into another reality that you create. A place where the moon is cheese, werewolves exist and heroines like Buffy are out there slaying vampires.
So writing tip #1…Write! And keep writing, don’t stop because you never know what a few lines could turn into.
