Free E-books The creative process: How to create stories and successfully become a writer
Here are some notes about how to write and how to learn to create stories. You will find that I have separated the tasks of creating a story from the ability to write and you may find this distinction useful as it clarifies the differences between the two skills. They may help you in your adaptation of Turk Street, and if you are interested, in creative writing in general.
• Learn how to jigsaw; start with stories based on fact, then take on more individual projects.
• Learn how to recognize material; get into the habit of storing events, people, places, things you have read, and things you have seen so that you have the material in head to jigsaw and create stories.
• Decide to become and writer and commit yourself to the time needed to achieve this.
• Make regular, hopefully a daily time in your life in which to write. Stick to this time and protect your writing hours.
• Recognize what good writing is and make that your aim to achieve.
• Read your own work and the work of others aloud so you can hear it from an outsider’s perspective.
• Transcribe the work of others to understand how other authors write
• Start writing non-fiction: journalism, reviews, journals, business or academic writing.
• Research for material when helpful and necessary
• Write short pieces at the start of your writing career and avoid taking on large works that are more likely to fail.
• Be a writer; write prose, write plays, write screenplays, write fiction, write non-fiction
• Don’t start on a long work until you have the experience and are able to plan out the story of a long book or feature-length screenplay in detail.
• Produce a scene-by-scene, or chapter-by-chapter breakdown before writing the first full page of any story.
• Find an informed experience person to give you feedback and support for your revising and rewriting.
• Don’t fix your mind upon being one particular type of writer until you have several years experience.
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