Change something about your project today. Change your character in some way. Alter their perception or change their mind about something important. Change your direction. Turn left when you were clearly supposed to go right. Change the way you write a poem. Pick today to rhyme. Change the way you approach an essay. If you typically do a lot of research, go off the top of your head today.
Embrace change today and have some fun with it!
Write out the background for either yourself or one of your characters. It could be about you or the character personally, as in their history. Or it could be about genealogy and ancestry. Be sure to relate this to who you or your character is currently (present moment in the story). Make connections. See how it ties together. Insert the sense of discovery with it.
Have fun!
Give something edible a staring role. Take the focus off of conflict, drama, or whatever else is going on in your writing and focus on the food.
Make sure to use all five senses.
Most of all, make sure to have fun writing!
Really simple… the topic is being thankful and grateful.
Work it in.
Work it out.
Have some fun!
Have you ever had someone tell you to write it out?
Even if you are feeling something that doesn’t seem to fit with what you are working, you should always try to find a way to channel that energy and throw it into your project.
This doesn’t always mean that your characters or your piece has to match the emotions you are feeling. Sometimes you need to turn those emotions into motivation and write them out. Turn that stress and frustration into a beautifully creative piece. Use boredom as a time to throw your imagination into emergency boot camp.
So take whatever you are feeling and channel it. If you need to, time yourself to up the challenge factor.
Try to have some fun with this.
Add some anticipation to your writing. Let your story, poem, or piece begin to build up to something that the reader may or may not see coming. Make sure not to give too much away. Leave bread crumbs. Let the clues add up. Let the pieces of the puzzle slowly come together.
Have fun!
The character actor in a movie typically isn’t the star. Not only are they a supporting character but they are the glue that keeps the movie from being boring. However most movies would not survive without them. They provide depth the the movie. (They are usually my favorite characters.)
Create one for your fiction project. Write an essay about one. Develop a poem around the premise.
Play with it. Try some stuff. Think about your favorite character actors and your writing. Make something happen.
Trust me it will be amazing as long as you have fun with it!
Create some back story that doesn’t already exist in your writing. Pick a character you haven’t talked about much. Pick a topic you haven’t covered. Build up to what is already there.
Have fun with it!
Time yourself.
You’ve got fifteen minutes.
Start with a train of thought and run with it. It could be something on your character’s mind or something on your mind. It could be based off of a word or a feeling.
Just write. Do not stop writing until the fifteen minutes is up. Do not pause to think. Whatever you think is what you put down on paper.
Trust me… you can have fun with this!
Happy Writing!
How about a sneak peek? Throw a hint at the what the ending looks like. A poem that speaks of the future may be the way to go. An essay about where you think things should go with a topic of extreme interest to you. A moment of foreshadowing for your character.
We are on the downhill stretch so why not shine a light on what is at the bottom.
However you see it, whatever comes to mind when you think sneak peek, go ahead and throw it in there.
Happy Writing!
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