DRUID'S GARDEN WRITINGS

[Maharg67]

Thanks everybody for your feedback and posts.

 

Keanumoreira, I suggest you reward yourself for meeting your challenges. I could offer suggestions but you know best what you like.

[Maharg67]

I am very happy that this topic has now been pinned and am grateful to the moderators for having this done. Thanks. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Keanumoreira]

Thanks everybody for your feedback and posts.

 

Keanumoreira, I suggest you reward yourself for meeting your challenges. I could offer suggestions but you know best what you like.

 

 

Sure, I guess you could throw some my way.

[Maharg67]

Thanks everybody for your feedback and posts.

 

Keanumoreira, I suggest you reward yourself for meeting your challenges. I could offer suggestions but you know best what you like.

 

 

Sure, I guess you could throw some my way.

 

A favourite snack, perhaps something not so good for you. A movie. A good book. A great flavoured icecream. It really is up to you.

[Keanumoreira]

Thanks everybody for your feedback and posts.

 

Keanumoreira, I suggest you reward yourself for meeting your challenges. I could offer suggestions but you know best what you like.

 

 

Sure, I guess you could throw some my way.

 

A favourite snack, perhaps something not so good for you. A movie. A good book. A great flavoured icecream. It really is up to you.

 

All three sound delicious. ;D

[Maharg67]

If you can no longer give somebody kudos, having given them kudos before, why not give them 'honourary kudos'?

[Maharg67]

Brain storming

 

Such as learning to ride a bicycle, it is good to get familiar with a new skill first by getting the feel of it. One might just sit on a bicycle, get to feel the balance of it, turn the handles etc. With writing one way to get the feel of writing is to brain storm.

 

I tried it, after much prompting my other people, and it worked.

 

Just write something, anything or maybe start with a topic or even a first half sentence.

 

Examples

 

Cat or Dog Person

My favourite television show is....

Once upon a time there...

My home city

My favourite computer game.

Etc.

 

Trick is to write with out stopping and not to stop to do any form of reviewing, editing or anything like that. Keep going to fill a page or perhaps for a set period of time (perhaps using a timer) or just until one runs out of steam. Using a timer is good because it makes it more difficult to come up with excuses to stop quickly or to start editing.

 

It is an odd truth that many good story ideas come out of brain storming.

 

So does writing confidence and ideas of how to write.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Maharg67

[Keanumoreira]

I've just grasped the idea of brain storming, but not stopping to edit is new to me. I usually look back every three minutes or so to see how the whole thing is coming along.

[Maharg67]

We are trained from early childhood to edit, to make every bit of writing proper, so it is hard to get used to the idea of brain storming with out doing any of this. I have brain stormed for years and still find it difficult to get into if I have not done it for a time.

 

But it works and is worth doing for even successful writers (authors) do it. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

Also helps defeat writer's block!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Edited December 29, 2011 by Maharg67

[Maharg67]

PLEASE BRAINSTORM HERE IF YOU WISH BUT TRY NOT TO OVERDO IT.