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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Tip #2 - Inspiration

Are you having troubling writing, or finding some inspiration to stream? Here's a couple things you can do that might help:

- Look around your room and just start listing objects. Maybe write how you feel about them. Maybe where they came from. See where that takes you.

- Pick out one thing that happened today and let yourself run away with that. It will help if you are specific as possible; generalities don't make for good inspiration.

- Go through a book and pick out twenty words and figure out how they fit together, and try to use them all in a piece.

- Find someone you know (or someone you don't) and get them to ask you some questions, either about yourself or not, and start streaming replies to those questions.

These are only a few ways to get yourself writing; hopefully it will help! And keep in mind, there is no reason why you have to end up in the same place you started - its all about letting yourself go.

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