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if I could offer you only one tip
If I could offer you only one tip for the future of your writing, sunscreen (no!) READ MORE would be it. The best way to learn to write is to read.
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I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time.
I think I’ve been doing this wrong the whole time. I was watching some famous screenwriters talking about their writing process and I immediately thought, Wait a minute, that makes perfect sense. I raised my eyebrows and found a little lightbulb shining next to my head, you know what I mean? My process would be so much better and simpler if I did that! I’d divide this process into three steps: FIRST STEP — gather, collect, and freely hoard notes, beats, characters, themes, ideas, dialogues, scenes, and everything they can, even sketches and pictures if that is the case. SECOND STEP — filter and organize the mess, separate the wheat…
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what is a good definition of reading?
Reading is more than just looking at ink on paper and fluently making something out of it. Reading is…
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and how to be a writer of the world
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, or *language relativity* hypothesis, is a principle that suggests that the structure of a language affects its speaker’s perceptions and thoughts, thus affecting their behavior.
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how to earn the title of author when all we do is write
We write and we put our words on paper. No matter what kind of paper that is or if it’s even real paper in the first place. The same question pops up anyway. How do I go from writing to becoming an author?
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the write structure and you in a hero’s journey
It starts with a dilemma. A moment in the story when the character is faced with a difficult choice between two either good or bad things. We begin with dilemmas because they center stories.
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how to organize your writing life today
How do you organize your writing life? I'm gonna talk about the things that work for me, which means you don't have to follow everything like a rule or something, but I’m sure I’m gonna help you with this post.
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when you don’t have ideas to write
You wake up one day with an urge to write something. A story. “A book”? And then you sit in front of the blinking cursor or a piece of paper and nothing comes out.
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gimme six hours or seven years
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.
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how to write a novel like an architect
This will help you get out of whatever you’re calling a writer’s block. You know what an architect does, they design buildings and some have an interior designer role too. Imagine you’re an architect like that and your next book is a construction project. Now, think of a story as a floor plan first. We’re gonna draw it together here. Can you hear the scratches of the pencil on the paper? Listen to it. And keep that sound in your head. Here’s gonna be the beginning room, then you enter this door to find the middle room. It’s a large hall with many doors. We draw a big hall here…
