3 Simple Tips to Inspire New Writers
Picture this: you’re sitting on your favorite chair in a room filled with shelves and shelves of books built into every wall and raising all the way to the ceiling. The heavenly smell of the pages fill you with inspiration. Suddenly a story springs to your mind – the best idea you have ever had. You grab your laptop. The light dims around you. The screen illuminates your face and then you start writing. Dancing across the keyboard, your fingers work like magic. The characters, the plot, and the setting weave together on the page as the words fill the screen...
Perfect, right? Makes it sound so easy, but nothing could be more wrong. Writing is hard. It takes work and hopefully you have realised this and that is why you are reading my article for the tips promised. Well here they come, ready?
Number one: Don’t be scared!
You’re new, an amateur. You only just started. But guess what, once upon a time so was Stephen King, J.K rolling, even Shakespeare. They all started like you. You’re a writer. Own it. Don’t worry about being as good as them. Be you. You have things to say and a story bursting inside you. Let it out. Let it go (#bestFROZENadvice)
Number Two: Write for yourself
Ever just couldn’t find anything good on the TV? Or couldn’t find a good story to sink your teeth into? Well then, write one! Write the story you are dying to read. One you will keep writing just to see how it turns out. Thinking of the reader is important, yes, but remember that the first person that’ll read everything you write is yourself.
Number Three: Don’t trust the inspiration train
You may think that you need to feel inspired to write. Wrong. Inspiration is like a train with dreams of being a race car. It is never on time and often whizzes past with mocking speed, not slowing down for even a peak into its windows. Don’t trust that inspiration will strike when you need it. Rather set time aside to write, every day or every week at least. Sit, think, write. Don’t wait for inspiration to come to you. Get out there writer and write! You can do it.
