Deborah E. Blair
There are several things -
1) Make time daily - schedule regular time even if it is only fifteen minutes and sit down and write. It does not matter if it is good, It does not matter if you are inspired. Just write. Edit it later.
2) Read widely. Fiction and non-fiction. Read outside of the genre you are inspired to write. Copy turns of phrase and sentences into a word journal - or read the phrases out loud so that your ear gets treated to good phraseology!
3) Keep an inspiration journal. Date your entries. You may not write about it now, but the UN-Conscious likes to be honored by writing the ideas down.
4) keep a dream journal. Even if you do not know what your dreams mean, the UN-Conscious likes to see that you are paying attention. If you pay attention to your dreams your creative ideas will more easily bubble up to consciousness as well.
5) Don't compare yourself to other writers. I am Asperger's Autistic and Dyslexic - if I compare myself to many commercial writers I would just give up!!! It is important to find your voice and to support it.
Read about writing from writers like Stephen King - On Writing - and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird.
Fall in love with writing!
1) Make time daily - schedule regular time even if it is only fifteen minutes and sit down and write. It does not matter if it is good, It does not matter if you are inspired. Just write. Edit it later.
2) Read widely. Fiction and non-fiction. Read outside of the genre you are inspired to write. Copy turns of phrase and sentences into a word journal - or read the phrases out loud so that your ear gets treated to good phraseology!
3) Keep an inspiration journal. Date your entries. You may not write about it now, but the UN-Conscious likes to be honored by writing the ideas down.
4) keep a dream journal. Even if you do not know what your dreams mean, the UN-Conscious likes to see that you are paying attention. If you pay attention to your dreams your creative ideas will more easily bubble up to consciousness as well.
5) Don't compare yourself to other writers. I am Asperger's Autistic and Dyslexic - if I compare myself to many commercial writers I would just give up!!! It is important to find your voice and to support it.
Read about writing from writers like Stephen King - On Writing - and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird.
Fall in love with writing!
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