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Writing Advice

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The  Importance of Writing Everyday

I am often asked by those who want to become writers, if there is one thing I can recommend to help them.  My answer is there is never any one answer to that question, but I do have a couple of suggestions; read everyday something that makes you think and keep a writing journal.

The importance of filling your brain with stimulating information is essential for you to always have thoughts, ideas and words in your mind that stimulate and excite you into wanting to express yourself. 

A writer is supposed to only write about things they know.  So to know about things you must research and be educated.  Also, reading the words of others who have made it into professional publication helps you to see what it takes to become a published author. 

In a good book, the words dance off a page, the sentences have style, pace, functionality, and the grammar and punctuation – impeccable.  The many different things your mind learns and picks up while reading a book, if you are reading like a writer, is immeasurable.

The other recommendation I suggest is to keep a writing journal, start in the morning and kick-start your brain by writing in your journal.  Write down what you need to do that day or plan on doing.  Write down things that happened yesterday or didn’t happen and how you feel about that.  Start your day writing words, let the words flow, this is where you can write for yourself, you can free-form your writing with no one else’s concern about structure, spelling or grammar.  Just put words, your words, to paper and exercise that part of your brain where the words spill out.

During the day, don’t be afraid of picking up your journal and jotting down notes of observations, like the car accident on the corner, the dead cat you nearly stepped on while taking your walk or the beautiful and fragrant garden you had an opportunity to visit.

Don’t forget conversations you have been part of or might have overheard.  Each person is unique and if you, by lucky chance, happened to overhear someone expressing themselves in an uncommon way, remember and record the incident.

Record using your senses, write down the most interesting or stimulating things of your day.  How did it make you feel, what did it taste, smell, look like?  Make sure you write with details because this is what you are trying to savor and save until another time, when you might need this information to write with.  It is also training your mind to pick up on things that are different from your everyday life.

Writers are recorders of life.  Perhaps, someday, a few years in the future, your writing might be what helps the people of that day and time understand who we were as a culture and society.