Hiya! I'm new to this app and I am in genuine need of writing advice 😅 You see I really, really want to make a book but I don't know how to start writing it. I have ideas, lots of them but I don't know how to put them in words... any advice?
In need of writing help 😞
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What did it for me, personally, was studying and reading a lot tbh. I wasn't really the planner type, but having these like, questions to answer about my stories and characters helped build them little by little. There's a lot of resources around to help you bring your ideas to life.
Then it is only a matter of asking "what happens next?". Since it's already in your head, you might find you already know!
Then there's the good old just sit down and write whatever comes to mind. Make sense of it later, that stuff is fun too. Don't forget to have fun while writing! <3 -
Try to understand what you want to share and what others would find intresting and BAAM! you got this.. best of luck.. i won't in much of help but I would love to read your books or series hehe ~=~
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Consider starting a series, also commenting in other people's discussions and getting used to online discussion. That helps practice quickly
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The gap between having the idea and getting it onto the page is the most normal thing in the world, and it never fully closes. When I finally started writing about leaving my church, I couldn't write 'the whole story' either. What worked was picking one small scene I could actually see, a single afternoon, and just describing that. The book finds its shape from the small true pieces, not the other way around. Start with the one moment you can't stop thinking about.
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Everyone who writes has stood exactly where you are, staring at a head full of ideas that refuse to become sentences. The uncomfortable secret is that the words don't arrive before the writing, they arrive during it. You don't think your way to clarity and then transcribe it; you write badly, then you find out what you meant. Give yourself permission to produce a genuinely ugly first draft. That draft is not the enemy of the book, it is the raw material the book gets quarried from.
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ok friendly dumb question: what's the book actually about, in one plain sentence? if you texted a friend the pitch, what would it say?