- Get a big notebook and create a world. Then write the history and future and everything else about the land. Draw maps. Have hundreds of characters. When you want some thing to, just go make up new characters and stories. It is a lot of little stories that make up the big story of the land.
- Create a character. Keep a notebook. Over time, develop it as if it had a personality all it's own. This is a wonderful way to give your stories a little zing - when you've developed your character enough, you'll be able to think of it as a real person/animal (whatever) and will even be able to predict what it would do in different situations!
- Try to make everything unpredictable. I mean sure, of course you try to, but really make somethnig happen out of the blue. For example, say Matthias was challenged(or your hero character), make him just walk away. So everyone "knows" what's gonna happen next. But you have him/her whirl around and fight a few seconds later. Try it.
- Make sure you use dialog that makes sense and that fits the character whose speaking.
- Keep a notepad by your bed, brilliant ideas can hit you at 3 in the morning.
- If you're writing a story and you find yourself getting bored with it, start a new one, but don't quit the old one. That way, when you want to write, you have a choice of more than one thing to write about. Just be careful not to start TOO many new stories! Two or three is plenty!
- If you should happen to get writer's block, then just save your story in a safe place until you can write again.
- To get ideas for a story, be a bit of a 'spy'! Take real
life situations and embelish them and write it down!
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