Are you a participant in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month for those who don’t know ;))? Here is an infographic by Grammarly about the common mistakes in the novels from last year they did with participating novelists. This is helpful during the proofreading/editing process before it goes off to the editor. This is also helpful for aspiring authors! Enjoy!
Link to full article for more help tips here.
I would like to welcome Anjelina Williams to NAG today. She is going to share some info and tips about how to thrive as a professional writer. Enjoy!
With the increasing competition and race in the field of professionalism, it is better to adopt certain traits and changes that help in gaining success. In order to cope better with the existing circumstances and scenarios, it is important to revisit yourself and bring about certain personality changes within yourself, so that one can manage and handle well with the professional environment. In the aspect of writing, revisiting is necessary, because it allows and helps you to analyze the flaws and negatives within you and gives you some time to reform them with care. These new developments are a necessary factor for a successful and an efficacious life ahead, people who are young and fresh in the field of writing need to revolutionize themselves more as compared to the others because it is them who will be now looking for the assistance and guidance from the employers. Therefore, personality development is one single factor on which success is dependent, as writing is the reflection of one’s personality. The entire debate revolves around this fact, keep reentering yourself as a writer, meaning reexamining oneself in a professional workplace is significant because it allows you to update yourself, it helps you to see those elements that are helping you move ahead in your workplace and similarly, allow you to filter those elements that are creating certain obstacles and hurdles in the way of success – also known as the writer’s block. Similarly, talk to yourself! Contemplate upon those things that can be the motivating force behind your writing skills, allow your mind to wander to the imaginary world, even sky is not the limit. Imagination allows creativity that helps you to put yourself in the paper. As writing is just the thoughts, perceptions as well as philosophies around which your life revolves, therefore, just create and enhance the relationship between you and your paper, ponder more and allow your mind to float broadly, so that the readers can enjoy them by reading on the paper. Lastly, celebrate your life by expressing yourself with ink! Following are some of the basic guidelines that need to be accepted in order to gain prosperity and success for a writer.
Motivate Yourself
The first step towards expression is to encourage and stimulate yourself; find any sort of inspiration around you that can help you to move faster and in a constructive direction. The act of motivation is described as the act of warming up your mind, hence mental preparation is essential and in this way things are easier and it helps you to move in a continued successful direction. Motivation is not at all a physical act, but it is an activity to broaden one’s mind. Help yourself, watch motivational videos and talk to prosperous people around you. Therefore, motivation is the prerequisite and the first step to get started; if an individual seems motivated and enthused enough, victory and success can be easily interpreted by reading. Have a positive and a right kind of attitude and keep believing yourself.
Break some Cliché’s
The more the novelty is, the more success will be achieved. It is true that experience is one thing that leads towards success, but nowadays people prefer something that is original in nature as well as interesting enough to read. No one wants to read about the same subjects and topic every day, this can easily put the audience off. Bring something new, produce interesting material and allow your fan base to increase. Break the clichés and introduce new standards as well as material to be enjoyed. Gaining new experiences in the field of originality, polishing and refining the old ones, will assist you in moving ahead in the direction leading towards success.
Write short
A good writer is the one who can easily express with the use of non-clichéd and short phrases. This ability and skills within the writers approach, allow them to move forward as it is widely appreciated by the readers. They enjoy how easily and conveniently a writer has put his thoughts into words by using short sentence and phrases that have not taken their time. Hence, write shortly, but do it well!
Stay in the Spotlight
Try to be efficient and well organized in your thoughts, this allows a writer to be highlighted. The more exhausted, lethargic and lazy a writer is in their thoughts, the more difficult their performance will be. Hence, try to be active, lively and dynamic within the mind, organize thoughts as this does now allow confidence and optimism, but staying in the spotlight means a writer should develop the habit of being buoyant enough to interpret their philosophies into the paper.
Author’s Bio:
The author Anjelina Williams is an exceptional worker at Homework services at AssignmentDoer. She is a professional career guide and has received a degree in career progress and development. With her outstanding skills, she is guiding students in their homework and assignment completion.
I would like to welcome Elizabetha Halsted to NAG today. She will be sharing some info about beating writer’s block today. If you are a writer, you how we all hate it, but it happens. Enjoy!
Writing can frustrate professional writers, if their mind gets fail to produce creative ideas. But the situation becomes worse when a writer is not able to generate a single idea for a longer period. A writer’s block is a common phenomenon and it’s often caused by conflicting feeling. Anyone can restore writer’s block by learning some effective techniques. If you are also affected by writer’s block and unable to produce a single idea for your new writing project then luckily you’re at the right place. Have a look at the information shared below to avoid this frustrating position.
Refresh your mind
We all know that stress is the enemy of creativity. When your mind is hijacked with negative thoughts, you cannot concentrate fully to produce more ideas. Eliminate negative thoughts to regain your focus at work. You can easily perform it by doing some exercises. Exercise plays a great role in refreshing our mind and clearing our thought process. Do it until you feel fresh. Once you eliminate all negative thoughts that are stopping your creativity, get back to your work to take a fresh start.
Change your place
Many times writers are not in a position to generate creative ideas due to their workplace issues. Whenever we work at the same place for a longer period, it flies away our interest at work. Nonetheless, by performing different activities at the workplace, we can turn our work enjoyable. It could be easily done by changing your positions after some time to stay in focus. For instance, you can sit on the roof or at your room, balcony with your books, pencil and other writing stuff. Hopefully these little changes will enable you to bring creativity at the workplace in order to produce copious amounts of unique ideas.
Look for creativity
When your mind fails to produce new ideas, you need to refresh it with some techniques. A recent survey proved that a cup of tea, coffee, hot milk or a glass of juice can help you create more ideas for your new writing project. This is because it will boost up your energy level and expand your thought process. Ultimately, ideas will begin to generate in your mind and you will successfully create a top notch writing project. Therefore next time if you’re troubling from writer’s block, have a cup of hot or cold drink to come up with inspiring ideas.
Do brainstorming
Brainstorming is an effective technique for generating new ideas. Through brainstorming, you can develop a bundle of ideas for every writing project. Perform this mind mapping tool to come up with ideas that will support your topic. If you will perform brainstorming on a daily basis, it will become easier for you to write impressive ideas on any topic. It is seen that people who perform brainstorming techniques generate unique ideas and come up with solution to beat writer’s block situation. Thus, you should also adopt this technique of generating outstanding ideas to carry out your work in a cool manner.
Research your topic
If you’re facing a hard time in producing relevant ideas for your topic, then you should research it from a different platform. In the today’s world of technology, research is not a difficult task. You can research a number of platforms over the Internet to collect ideas that suit with your topic. Additionally, you can also use social networking platforms for the purpose of gathering new ideas. Nowadays almost every person is using social media platforms to share their ideas and views. It means that you can also benefit from social media platforms by placing out matching ideas for your topic.
Write anything
The writer’s block problem is common among professional writer. It could tackle by ignorance. Spend some time in writing down anything that comes to your mind. Ignore any negative though or force that is stopping you to write. Only focus on your topic and write whatever knocks in your mind. Do this for some time, until your brain starts supplying ideas in a nonstop manner. Surely this process will train your brain to tackle writer’s block in an effective manner without frustrating. In this way, you will not only get relaxed but also bring lots of impressive ideas for your present and upcoming writing projects.
About the Writer: Elizabetha Halsted is a professional blog writer and a academic advisor from the UK who loves to share her knowledge through blogging. In the present time she is writing blogs on education and career related topics to help people who want a research paper writer to overcome different issues that stops them to write.
I would like to welcome back Katherine Smithson to NAG today. Today’s post is more for aspiring writers in how to to create your first character, but for experienced authors it will remind us about part of the fun of being an author! Enjoy!
Giving birth is not just about natural birth. Sometimes, it’s also about giving life to a story’s hero.
Creating a character for a novel or even for a short story is like conceiving and giving life to a new being. You need to mold it into another person who is complete in the physical, mental, social, spiritual, and emotional departments. It’s basically like role playing as a kid, plus all the personality and even the back story of your character.
So if you’re thinking about writing a story and creating some characters for the very first time, these tips might help you make the process of materializing one easier and better.
Start from the Inside Out
It’s always easier to start on the physical aspects of your character. Blonde, long hair, with curly eye lashes and blue, sparkling eyes. But like in real life, what defines a person is always the most important thing and the best aspect to begin with. Ask yourself, what one or two adjective/s would you want to describe the character you want to conceive? According to the story you’ve made up in your mind, what kind of person would best suit your protagonist. Start from there and everything else will follow.
Get Ready to Give Birth
Like what I said earlier, giving birth is not just about any natural birth. It’s also about giving life and character to a new person inside a book. Like any parent, you have to prepare yourself to take good care of this character and give justice to his/her/its life and his/her/its story. Prepare yourself on becoming a “parent” because you’re going to adore, hate and even at times be disappointed with the character you’ve made out of him/her/it. Keep in mind that just like in the matter of parenting, pouring your love and heart, like when writing your best essays, to your characters is the very foundation, as well as your sheer connection to your readers.
Give Him/Her/It a Piece of Yourself
Share some of your physical traits, habits, or personality to your character. It’s important to leave a personal mark on your characters, especially to your protagonist to give the readers a sense of your own being as a writer and to give the feel that you are the creator and the “parent” of that character.
But Remember that He/She/It is a Completely Different and Unique Individual
Every story character has its own individuality. No matter how closely you can relate to the story or the character’s experiences and personality, remember to give him/her/it the liberty to become someone else other than you. Let him/her/it be who she/he/it really is. It’s bascially the same thing as when your mom and dad gave you the freedom to discover your own self and make your own decisions and adventures.
Don’t Forget About the Back Story
Albus Dumbledore was a muggle-hater, Severus Snape was Lily Potter’s secret lover, Katniss Everdeen hunts “illegally” outside the fences because his father taught her so, Dauntless’ Four is Tobias Eaton — the son of an Abnegation leader, Marcus Eaton.
Back stories play a very crucial role when it comes to character building. It can define them as a person and justify their present and future decisions. It can also dictate the journey of the character and the outcome of the story’s ending.
His/Her/Its Choices Depends on His/Her/Its Character, Not Yours
Again, the characters that you will make have their own lives to live and own situations to deal with. Although you are the writer and you have the control over their decision-making schemes, you would give more justice and individuality to your characters if you would allow them to decide for themselves. Put yourself into their shoes and think like them. In that story’s world or time frame, they are basically uniquely living and breathing individuals who deal with their own situations like you do every single day.
The beauty of of character creation and building lies in the differences and uniqueness of your characters. So when you write a story and mold characters for it, don’t just play Sims — give life instead. Share your character building thoughts and experiences below.
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