I Look Everywhere for Writing Wisdom
By Annette Rey
I am reading a book on brain study (Too Fast to Think by Chris Lewis) and found great insight for writers or for anyone involved in a creative activity. If you can break down the elements that were present the last time you flawlessly wrote something then you can know what to look for to recreate successful writing sessions.
What this book has to say on the subject is spot on and worth your look-see.
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Try This
By Annette Rey
What do you have to write? What small message (or large) do you think you have to offer? I know. You don’t think you have such a monumental thing to donate. Most of us believe we live mundane lives and underestimate what we can pass to others. But readers are interested in your life experiences.
What of your childhood? Go back. Somewhere you learned an important lesson, you found compassion seeing a crippled child, you heard your father yell an epithet and it chilled you, a birthday party went awry…
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Great Quotes
By Annette Rey
The quotes listed may spark a thought for a short story.
Some of these quotes may be a bit obscure. You be the judge.
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How It Works
By Annette Rey
There are many techniques a writer can use to get himself going, to break the block. I have experimented with improvisational writing and find it to be very effective in getting my mind racing forward and my fingers flying on the keyboard.
This is an easy and casual exercise to perfect.
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By Annette Rey
Where do you get inspiration when a day seems dry and auto-repeating? I looked in a book for a cue, Great Toasts, by Andrew Frothingham. I found this inspiring quote by Oscar Wilde,
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
What writing ideas do you pull from that?
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The Classics
By Annette Rey
You probably have seen the movies made from these great works written over a century ago – Sleepy Hollow (1819) by Washington Irving, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert L. Stevenson, The Cask of Amontillado (1846) by Edgar A. Poe and many more.
We are so spoiled! I mean, we live in this fast-paced society and movies are faster to digest than the time it takes to read the original novel. So movies do perform a service. They save us time.
But, has that spoiling done us some harm?
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This One is a Gem
By Annette Rey
This site came to me out of frustration because I am reading the annotated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and it’s taking me forever!
So I was curious and wanted to know how many words are in this novel.
Look at what I discovered.
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http://www.visualdictionaryonline.com/
By Annette Rey
I have always been about helping writers to break their block and to help them improve their craft. And so, one of the goals of Writers Block No More is to guide writers to sites from which they can grow new writing projects.
Writers are people. Duh! And all of us are different and have different abilities. Some people learn better from visual images, others audio, others tactile (uh oh, keep an extra eye on them. LOL).
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Improve Your Vocabulary
By Annette Rey
These rules are basic to our very existence as writers and you may tend to ignore them. But any flower needs water to blossom, to grow to its full potential, to bring its beauty to the world.
Your brain needs the type of food to expand your writing skills and the basic blocks that build a sentence are words. The more words you know (and their definitions) the more beautiful the sentences you can build. Like a flower in its bloom, your writing should captivate and enthrall, capture and entertain, charm and enchant your readers.
Let’s look at a plan to be intentional in improving your vocabulary.
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Use Your Imagination
By Annette Rey
When was the last time you were awed by a new invention? Did you say to yourself, “I wish I had invented that!”
Well, set your imagination free and create creative characters!
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