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[EmilyMiller]

Say ‘Hi’ to Wanda, that is you make it out to Bishop Rock.

Given the office is in The City and so is the hotel, I’m doubt it.

Em

 

[Weirdnessome]

Write something, anything, and then ask yourself: What happens next? And write that. And then keep doing the same thing, over and over.

When you have about a thousand words, go back and read it from the beginning. Ask yourself: Did I really want to know what happens next? Because, if you didn't, your reader probably won't either. You need to go back and start making tweaks.

Once you have those first thousand or so words sorted, you're on your way.

Keep on going until you reach an end. And then stop.

As Kumquatqueen says, put what you have written to one side. Leave it for a couple of days or a couple of weeks. Does each sentence make you want to read the next sentence? If it doesn't, you still have work to do.

Good luck.

Thank you for the advice

 

[muddie684]

If you don't know what you want to write about, then try picking something at random. Pick a location, a name, a fetish, a wikipedia article, a word in the dictionary, a color, something you like, something you hate, pretty much anything, then write 200 words about that. Don't like it? Trash it and do it again. Even if you write slowly, you should be able to get through three of those in an hour, and that will get your creative juices flowing. It'll be easier to pick what you really want to write about after that.

Then you have an idea, but a blank page. Write the beginning recklessly. I almost always throw away my entire first draft and rewrite the whole thing from scratch. The second draft is usually a massive improvement, and then I edit that. If you're like me, then 80% of what you write will be rubbish, and the remaining 15% will be hated by other people, and 5% will be okay.

 

[Weirdnessome]

Thank you everyone, you all gave me good ideas. I have a long weekend so going to give it a go. Wish me luck.