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How did you get started writing?

AngelBaby2004

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I desperately want to be a writer, and feel God has lied that on my heart. Not necessarily to get published or anything, but just to share with others.

What is the best way to get started? I need inspiration!!!!!!!! Are there any REALLY GOOD writers' websites out there for inspiration/tips/techniques/exercises/(basically anything and everything that has to do with writing)???????????????????? :confused: :confused:

Would someone maybe be willing to act as my writing mentor of sorts (if there is such a thing)??????????????????? :confused: :confused:
 

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I also recommend journaling as a way to get started writing. It helps you find your voice as a writer, improves your self-expression, and helps you find the themes that resound within you.

I keep a long-hand journal, even though I write on the computer, just because that's how I'm comfortable doing it.

Just sit down every so often and write for a few minutes about whatever is going through your head that day. You'll be amazed how many stories you have to tell, and you'll find many of your entries will become a part of your work later on.

Good luck!
 
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I'm not sure how good of a mentor there is because it's your work, not someone elses, but I can offer tips. Something that I like to do is play the what if game. Take my favorite story and pick a pivital moment in the story and say, "What if this had happened instead? What if this person had done this here, not there?" Then I put that into my own story, changing the world, history of the world, the landscapes, people and cultures a bit, make a new plot based on my "What if" questions, etc. I've made an rpg like that. If you look in the New Worlds section of the rpg's, Abekai is based ona cross of Tolkien, Highlander, and my own imagination.
 
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Wow! That's some great advice, y'all! :)
One site that I've really found to be helpful, and they have EXCELLENT teachers there, too... Gottham Writer's Workshop (sorry, I don't have the exact site link anywhere... You should be able to get it if you just type in the name.
It's actually a college... it's totally cool!
 
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"Writer" is a pretty broad category. I suppose that all depends on what you mean and what you plan to do. Do you want to write stories? Poems? Novels? Fiction? Nonfiction?

First and foremost, I can tell you what my creative writing professor told me..."Write boldly, write badly...JUST WRITE!"

Other than that, just look around you for inspiration. Inspiration isn't necessarily this enigma that just falls from the sky and hits you on the head at random moments, though I do concede that at times, God will inspire us when He so choses. But the thing about inspiration, in my opinion, is that it exists all around us and it's up to the writer to activate it, either by appreciating some aspect of life or one's surroundings that others would hardly give a second thought to or by presenting a different perspective on the same old things or simply by providing evidence that everybody has a story to tell.

Granted, this is all coming from a poet, but prose works this way, too. Maybe what you could do is pick a corner/section of a room and write about the things that you see there, much like an artist would draw a sketch of a still life. You can even add characters, personification, whatever.

Also, try to find a good critical community. I don't know that much about this site yet, so I can't speak on its behalf, but my stuff is posted on my deviantart page located somewhere on my personal page (since I don't have 15 posts yet, I can't put it here). They're really good about copyright protection and they've got a great critical community. My biggest beef with them, though, is that they're secular and take a secular approach to the art community, so be careful when you're browsing the rest of the deviantart site.

At any rate, I'm willing to help you out if you want it. While at this point in time, I don't have time to actually be anyone's "mentor," but I don't think it would hurt if I gave critical suggestions and little proddings from time to time.

Hope it all goes well.
Peace!:cool:
 
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