Friday, March 9, 2012

Writing Techniques Part 1

How does a person come up with something to write?  I was always drawn to writing.  As a child I thrilled at a blank piece of paper and pencil.  However, not everyone can get started this easily, and I have to admit that although the thrill is still there, it takes some thinking to get something to appear on that paper nowadays!
One method I use for writing a new chapter is to do an outline of ideas that I want to cover.  What characters do I want to use?  What is a possible scenario?  Where are they and what are they doing?  Most importantly, I try and narrow down what I want this chapter to accomplish.  As I work on the sequel to Red, White & Blues, I use this technique quite often and with good results most of the time.  It is not foolproof, but if you know where you want to end up, it takes a lot of the loss of inspiration out of it.

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