Lynn
Lynn asked Jessica Day George:

Do you have any tips on how I can improve my writing, or get inspiration for stories? I have always wanted to be an author, but my writing is long and boring, and I suffer from lack of inspiration.

Jessica Day George These are my three basic writing tips:

1. Read. Read all the time. Read all different kinds of things.
2. Write. Exercise those writing muscles by doing it every day. Lists of character names, words you like, whatever.
3. Save it all. You never know when some weird little piece of writing will be useful. The Rose Legacy started as a four page story in a diary I wrote when I was 12.

If you feel like your writing is too long and boring, just go through and cut out all the stuff that doesn't move the basic plot along. If you need inspiration just . . . don't worry about it. Read. Watch movies. Live your life. When it comes, it comes!

Good luck!

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