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: How do I overcome a lack of motivation to write at home? Late October I decided to take the plunge and attempt NaNoWriMo. I haven't done much writing in some time and thought it would be
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: Where is a good place to find writing prompts? I love using writing prompts to come up with story ideas. I'm looking for good sites that have a lot of good writing prompts. One that updates
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: Writing first programming book I was recently asked if I was interested in writing a book for a pretty reputable publisher, which of course I accepted. I am not a writer by trade, I am a
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: Help! I've got Writer's Block I really want to write, but as soon as I sit down and set pen to paper, my mind goes blank. I can't think of anything to write. Sometimes I stare at my screen
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: Where should I start if I'm feeling the urge to write something? Possible Duplicate: Help! I've got Writer's Block For the past few weeks I have had this "itch" to write
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: Bogged Down with Legends of Wind It's not that I have a lot of writer's block, it's the mash-up of stories I'm compiling that all have to fit together in some way. I have outlines and I
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: Any documentaries or other inspirational movies about creative writing? Whenever I watch a good movie or documentary about a subject that interests me, it really gets my juices flowing and makes
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: How do I formulate while writing? I've tried to write without thinking, but that doesn't really worked that well. I need time to formulate my thoughts before I commit them to paper or screen.
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: How to concentrate when writing? I looked through the questions and didn't see this one so hopefully it's not a duplicate. I often have ideas of stories I want to write and I work on outlines
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: Headline method - How do I write The Economist-style headlines? I'm an advertising copywriter. When I write headlines, depending on the job, I employ rhyme schemes, puns, idioms, metaphors and
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: How to narrate a fictional dream in third person? Long story short. A few years ago I suffered from depersonalization and I still struggle with identity and motivation issues. This has deprived
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: How to invoke my creative side without investing too much time? I suck at writing. There, I admitted it. More often than not, I find my self staring at a blank moleskine page, or the
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: What are some tricks for managing debilitating writing anxiety/phobia? For the past 4 years, I've developed a severe problem with writing anxiety. It's become so bad, that I had to drop out
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: Why write in a different genre than what you read? This question is somewhat linked with Should you read your own genre?, but I believe it is distinct or at least approached in a different
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: How do you find inspiration as a creative person? Scientists and intellectuals are yet to discover the hidden mysteries of human brain. Its power and capacity is yet to be explored. Along the
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: What are the reasons behind Writer's block? I read the question Help! I've got Writer's Block which explains solutions to the problem. I was wondering why someone gets writer's block?
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: Writing Style Changed After the death of my cousin I have stopped writing for quite some time. However the stories ideas would persist in my mind. So I decided to try and write again, but
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: Stuck at outlining a script I have an idea, and it seemed like I had a somewhat clear understanding of the story, it's theme and most of the major plot points, but no matter how long I
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: When using freewriting, should I avoid correcting typos? My university recommends Freewriting to all its postgraduate students as a daily exercises to help overcome writer's block. I tend to make
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: Developing your writer's voice I'm a relatively new writer and sometimes I feel like my writing is too bland and that I'm struggling to develop my writer's voice. Does anyone have any good
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: Paraphrasing this part I want to paraphrase a sentence (as opposed to quoting), but I can not seem get any words in my mind for this part. What methods can I use to find ideas and methods
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: Writers block: Lost momentum, can't write even a sentence I've been writing a story for almost half a year. I worked on it almost every day because I really like doing it, but now that I
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: Getting past a dead end I've been working on a screenplay for a while now. But I seem to have reached quite the dead end. My question is, what do you guys do, to get past a sticking point.
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: How to write an elevator speech for MYSELF? "Write an elevator speech for prospective employers" is an action-item that's dogged me for weeks. Perhaps this is the place to reach out and admit--
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: I'm unable to figure out the logical solution to a problem; how do I keep writing? I'm outlining the plot for a scifi screenplay. I have the main characters, premise, the first half of the
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: How do I work through writer's block? I wrote 3 chapters. I can't think of something to write to connect what I have already written to ideas I have for later on.
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: Where do you do your writing? Do you do find you have a best place to do your writing? In the movies, writers seem to live and work in places with beautiful homes (lighthouses, windmills...)
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: I have this story all planned out, why can't I write it? I have written out two full manuscripts for this story. They are completed. Then I met the actress that the lead character was inspired
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: Writer's Block: How to Stop World-building and Start Writing? This is a question that doesn't directly apply to me, though I can easily see myself having this problem. I thought I'd run writer's
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: The pain of starting to write I've planned out a good deal of the plot. I know what I want each character to be, their names, and what will become of them in the end. I've internally reasoned
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: As a writer, should I be upset because I couldn't think of an idea? I've just been struggling recently with this doubt that I could never think of ideas I've seen written on my own. If that
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: Any suggestions for a new writer? I am in no way a writer. It's something I've always wanted to do, but could never build up the courage to actually start. Every time I think about writing,
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: How to generate thesis or a question out of a quote/quotes? In an effort to overcome my writer's block, I've come up with an exercise, which I've pieced together from all the material I've
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: How do I gather enough material to write a close reading essay? I always seem to struggle with finding enough information to write a 1500 word close reading essay, and it feels like I stretch
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: What happens when I get bored of a story I'm writing? I have several stories on hold because either I am not able to post them at the time, or they are incomplete and do not plan to finish
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: I need fake country names for my story I have a bad case of writer's block, and I need some realistic-sounding country names for my story. Nothing too "exotic" or hard to pronounce, please.
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: Need feedback on my novels character set up Hello everyone who reads this, but I need a little help. I am writing a fantasy novel and I was just wondering how readers feel about following
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: What should I do when I'm bored of my story but don't want to throw it away? So I recently started writing a book and decided that I should plan first because in the past while writing
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: How to kill a writer's block? It's been a year now since I have this. I can't write and think. Any suggestions, advice and tips?
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: Getting out of writers' block? How do I cure this? It's driving me crazy. I keep thinking of ideas to write but I either am too lazy to put it to paper or forget it and then randomly
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