I don't know how to write
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- KristinPoe1
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I don't know how to write
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Good luck. And I'd love to know how you get on.
- shadedragon
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But I get what you mean, I think. You have so many ideas that you don't know what to write, and then you don't know how to put it together.
that's the gold of writing though! You get to create your style as you go!
so start by writing Everything down.
Remember you can always save stuff for later, you don't have to always use it all now!
Next, choose one idea.
Know you can do all of them. Just not all at once!
Now pick out how you want to put the idea together, if you wish. Choose your style, or start writing how you want. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect- and there's always the revisions to fix up the mistakes and change up styles, etc. Right now is the rough draft, the fun part
I like to look over past books, poems, etc, and see all the different styles they use. My favorite, and the one I write best in is by writing books in poem form, and writing poems with all different fonts, colors, and styles. At the same time, my friend likes to write more prose, write in a journaling fashion, and date all her work and toss in punctuation afterwards so it sounds good to match up how it's supposed to sound
Then you write, write, write!
And have fun
The more you write, the more you find how you like to write, the more you read, the more you find out your likes and dislikes!
Thus you create your unique, wonderful style that can keep growing and flex as you grow to more and more
Best of luck,
~shadedragon
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You'd like to write, others would like to play baseball, some want to be ships' captains. I sure wish I could draw.
If by the time you are old enough to have a daughter who "writes like a pro" you have had no success at getting your ideas on paper, you probably cannot do it on your own nor with tips about the "magic" from the 'net. (I don't know that typing in different fonts and colors will help you all that much)
many people take creative writing classes which are often available at community colleges or adult education centers (like the local high school). This might be a good thing for you because AFAIK they teach the mechanics of writing
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I have always wanted to write and my daughter is amazingly creative.
She reads so much and has already learned how to write an effective catchy opening sentence, to organize her ideas, and to develop them in an interesting way.
SPOILER ALERT
I noticed again yesterday, Dumbledore starts the first HP movie by turning off all the street lights with that little light catcher thing that Ron ends up with later and I wondered, did she really know the first day of filming or writing how much that little thing would matter later on?
How do people write such long stories where everything just clicks into place and you feel all satisfied at the end?
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Once I feel like I have something substantial, I go back through everything I've written and begin to organize the story from my hodgepodge. Slowly, the hodgepodge starts to turn into something sensible as I form the beginning, middle, and end; as I find my main characters and begin to breathe life into them; as I determine my core plot and sub-plots.
Without the hodgepodge, I would be lost. Thus, I forgive myself the inability to sit down and write out a story from beginning to end.
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-- 27 Jul 2013, 18:14 --
Please share your idea with me
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Shadedragon has listed the steps taken by most writers before writing. You must plan to write, identify your audience, choose the tone and begin!
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shadedragon wrote:i agree, you can write quite beautifully
But I get what you mean, I think. You have so many ideas that you don't know what to write, and then you don't know how to put it together.
that's the gold of writing though! You get to create your style as you go!
so start by writing Everything down.
Remember you can always save stuff for later, you don't have to always use it all now!
Next, choose one idea.
Know you can do all of them. Just not all at once!Now pick out how you want to put the idea together, if you wish. Choose your style, or start writing how you want. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect- and there's always the revisions to fix up the mistakes and change up styles, etc. Right now is the rough draft, the fun part
I like to look over past books, poems, etc, and see all the different styles they use. My favorite, and the one I write best in is by writing books in poem form, and writing poems with all different fonts, colors, and styles. At the same time, my friend likes to write more prose, write in a journaling fashion, and date all her work and toss in punctuation afterwards so it sounds good to match up how it's supposed to sound
Then you write, write, write!
And have fun
The more you write, the more you find how you like to write, the more you read, the more you find out your likes and dislikes!
Thus you create your unique, wonderful style that can keep growing and flex as you grow to more and more
Best of luck,
~shadedragon
Well explained! thank you...now I'm gonna start on a new writing style. I usually write poetry but always wanted to write more short stories. You've just confirmed what others have bee trying to tell me.
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