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Personal stuff? Well, I'm a big time reader and love writing. (A bit obvious maybe?) I adore mythology/fantasy and history, both areas of which tend to play major roles in whatever I read or write. I tend to be a very busy person (courtesy of school and life in general.) Other than that, I don't think there's much you really need to know about me...
Writing Tips
Mostly things I've just scavenged from given advice or that which I've learned myself. It's here largely as a reminder to myself, but if it helps anyone else out, have at it.
Write every day. Whether it be fifty words or a thousand, half a page or fifteen. Whether it be a story, a song, an article, an essay, a poem, a good old-fashioned letter to your diary, whatever. Just write.
Read. A lot. You’ve probably heard that plenty of times; do it anyway. Seriously, other people’s works are like giant treasure troves sitting in the middle of a wide open field, waiting for someone to sift through them. They can help you figure out how to do everything from plot line to characters to simply putting together the perfect sentence.
If you get an idea, write it down. I’m not saying just go off and write a three hundred page story here (unless that’s your style, in which case kudos to you.) But if a random line pops into your head and you really want to hold onto it for whatever reason, write it down. If you get an idea for a story, write out the basic story line or a summary. If you suddenly see a character in your head, put them on paper; start building them, even if you don’t know exactly where they belong yet. Whatever comes into your mind, put it somewhere. Literally everything has potential, even if you can’t see it yet.
It’s okay to take a break from whatever you’re working on. Sometimes you need to just step back for a little while, recollect your thoughts. Sometimes you get the cursed writer’s block. So take a break now and then. It could be a few days or it could be a few months. Heck, it could be a year, or more. Just remember: if you take a break, don’t get rid of or completely abandon what you have. You never know when inspiration will strike again.
This is specific to posting online or anything like that: wait! Seriously, I cannot stress this enough. I know when you finish a chapter or piece or whatever how excited you are to post it right away. You can’t wait to see the views tallying up, and you sit there hoping a review or two will come in. Don’t do it. We all learned in school to go over our essays and revise and edit the crap out of them; that rule still applies. Take some time and back away from the thing for a little while. I personally like to wait overnight and come back the next day with a fresh brain. It makes it way easier to catch all the mistakes and reword things that don’t sound quite right the second time around. Especially if you read it out loud.
Write for yourself. I get it: you like the attention and the praise. Your heart does a little tap dance every time you get that e-mail saying you have a follower or a new review. You like watching the views count up. You like seeing that people love your story. I get it; I’d be lying if I said I’d never felt any of this. But guess what? That doesn’t always happen. Sometimes you go days or weeks without a single view. Sometimes you’ll pour your heart and soul into your work, and 30,000 words later you only have one review. Again, I get it. (Trust me: been there, done that.) Those can be the hardest times to keep writing. So when they come around, remember why you started in the first place. Remember that you’re writing because you love to, not because you want to watch a number tick higher. Always write for yourself.