Keep a writing journal. It's very convenient in holding all of your ideas.
It could be a blank-paged hardcover book or it could be a composition notebook - maybe even just pages twist-tied together in the hole punches.
I recommend choosing or creating something that you are comfortable with and something that characterizes or embodies you or your writing. With this, it holds more value to you and creates more interest in using it.
Write in it every day. even if you don't know what you want to write about, just move the pen across the pages. your mind will eventually go somewhere. Keep the habit.
Choose a time of day in which you write best. experiment with what times of day you write best; everyone is different and everyone is influenced by the movement of the moon and sun differently. (I personally write best right before I go to bed, because I dream very vividly and draw from my experiences in my dreams.)
Use different techniques and approches to writing when doing entries - this will serve to introduce you to new and interesting things and improve your skill by exposing you to different habits of writing. Perhaps you will find something you like more than what you currently do now!
Some suggestions:
- listing
- clusetering
- brainstorming
- free association
- focused free writing
Change approaches and techniques according to the material with which you are working.
Last edited 10/09/06(Mon)16:33.