What Is Your Favorite Writing Tip?

If you're in bed, about to sleep, and a wild idea for a book suddenly pops into your mind, make sure you write it somewhere else before you actually fall asleep. Even if you're really tired, scrawl it on a piece of paper! add a note on your phone! It'll help the next day:D

Also, don't be afraid to ask for opinions from others(: i don't think that's a problem in this website, though.

pandalee wrote:If you're in bed, about to sleep, and a wild idea for a book suddenly pops into your mind, make sure you write it somewhere else before you actually fall asleep. Even if you're really tired, scrawl it on a piece of paper! add a note on your phone! It'll help the next day:D

Word. It's really not a nice feeling when you wake up in the morning and realize you've forgotten it ^^

I trained my brain on that one, I think - I can't even fall asleep until I write it down, lol

When some idea crosses my mind, I wait until it becomes unbearable not to express everything in pen. In this way I train myself to narrate in a bright way. =)

"Get your lazy backside on that chair and start typing."
It's held true for the longest time: the biggest thing stopping me writing was my just not starting with it.

'Back all your writing up so you can't lose it.'
When I was about eleven and had about twenty books on the go (the longest of which was only seventeen pages ) my computer got a virus and all my work was lost because I hadn't backed any of it up. I was so upset and defeated that I didn't write for months - it was like all my characters had died and I was in mourning.
From then on, I made a point of ensuring my work was safe, either on a memory stick, on the internet, or both.

Don't be afraid to write! Just write it down, even if you KNOW you'll hate it. Someone will love it, even if you don't.

I'm concerned that it's no point in pluging apiece into writing down the idea which has recently crossed your mind. It's better to 'digest' this idea and then you'll have an opportunity to thoroughly overthink every detail of your future work.

The main advice I use when writing (especially novels) is to create a character chart and always see things from the character's point of view. You are that character.

Never stop for the day when you are out of ideas but when there is still something inside you driving you to keep writing.

Stop writing for the day while you're still enjoying the story.

When you are creating a character for a kids book, make them a year older than the intended audience. This works because the kid can look up to the character but not see them as alienated because they're so much older than them

Remember that every single person in your story, no matter how minor, has a life just as rich as your MC. Maybe not novel worthy, but they do have lives.

Write every where and any where. This pretty much explains why my hands are covered in black ink. c:

Something which works for me is to write for a set amount of time- and hour two hours, whatever, and do nothing but write in that time. You can stare out the window or daydream, but basically the rule is you can either do nothing but write or do nothing at all, if that makes sense. It was a tip by the writer Raymond Chandler (I learnt about it reading Scott Westerfeld's blog), and it works really well for me.

Writing a good poem always gives a good title. Sometimes, though, even with just a good title, you can write a good poem!