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A Few Simple Writing Tecniques I Found Useful
One of the first things I was taught, and found useful, in the creative writing process was simply, 'freewriting'. Forget, at the initial stages, about grammar, spelling etc. and simply choose a memory and write about it. Let your mind roam free, think about sights, smells, sounds associated with that memory and write them down.
Give yourself a time limit of twenty minutes and write, write, write. At the end of that time, read out loud what you have written. Put it aside for some time, possibly until the next day, and when you return you might find you want to develop it. You could edit, using a pencil so that you can keep the original vocabulary if, in the end, you decide you prefer it.
Listed below are a few other tips I found useful:
Analyse your characters (almost as though you are seeing them as people you are discussing with another person)
Decide on your genre
Setting is important, as is timeline
Research detail
Think about your reader and don't make assumptions that they know something you have not told them!
Take your reader on a journey
Start a story in the middle of some action
Listen to dialogue. Use it in your story.
Let the reader 'see' your characters show emotion by describing their actions rather than 'telling' how they feel.
Chose a convincing narrative 'voice'
Finally edit and edit again
These are just a few tips I found useful perhaps you would be kind enough to post others on to this page...........
