Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors by Brandilyn Collins, discusses taking on your characters’ inner lives (their emotions and motivations) in order to write believable story people. If you first get inside them, you become those characters. What if you could use this technique to become the motivated writer you want to be? […]
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Key #1: Have a Reason to Write
[First read Part 1 of the series called “Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun.”] The first key that Susan K. Perry mentions in Writing in Flow is this: have a reason to write. I’m going to break this into two parts. First: The Reason to Write in Flow For me, the reason to write […]
No Motivation or Willpower? A Simple Solution
Motivation is a great thing to have, but note this: it’s unreliable. And because it’s unreliable, motivation is NOT a good strategy for making change in your writing life. Motivation to write comes and goes. I love when it’s there. I love that “can’t wait to get to the keyboard” feeling about telling a story. […]