Tips novice writers: what to do if there is no inspiration

If you want to write a novel in three parts, and before you day after day, absolutely blank sheet of paper, you need to pull yourself together and get down to business. This will help you simple guidelines Trinetti Matthew (Matthew Trinetti), who writes for the Huffington Post, Business Insider and other publications, as well as conducts own blog GiveLiveExplore.

Here's how you write, just sit down and start writing. But as you do not write: yearning, waiting for the right mood will appear and you will be fully prepared, whole story will develop in your mind and will acquire items, and then you sit down and just start write.

But there are tough days when you're trying to write, and you know what to tell you, in fact, nothing. What if nothing happens? Pages remain empty? At such times remember the simple ways to start a creative process.

1. Answer the question

Your mind comes some burning question? He worried about other people? Help them to understand. Please help yourself. It does not matter what it will be is a question, simply select one. Even if you do not know how to answer it, in the process you will be able to get closer to a solution.

Writing - this study. You start from scratch and learn while writing.

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (Edgar Lawrence Doctorow), American writer

2. Write to one person

Stephen King (Stephen King) advises to write for your ideal reader. Aiming at all, you will not get in anybody. You will not be able to focus like a puppy in the rain of tennis balls. This is hardly a coincidence that the book, which have reached us from the depths of history, are often letters to one man: "Letters to a young poet" Rilke, "Moral letters to Lutsiliyu" Seneca, "to himself" Mark Aurelius. If you find it difficult to start, open the e-mail and create a new message. Specify one person in "To" field. And begins to write.

3. Do not be afraid of bad rough drafts

Thank you for this excellent advice Anne Lamott (Anne Lamott). When you start to write, the first results can cause disgust. Fortunately, you are a writer and a big part of your job - to polish the text and bring it to mind. The result can end up with something really good. Anyway, the editing is always needed, and you can edit anything. But first, let it come out "anything."

4. Seize inspiration when it comes unexpectedly

Trust your intuition. Sometimes inspiration strikes unexpectedly. When this happens, grab him and keep struggling. And only then look at what you've caught. Almost every successful deal, for which you were able to hold on, began to light fleeting whisper. Focus and listen.

5. Do not wait for inspiration, sitting around

It is a trap! William Faulkner (William Faulkner) once replied to a question, he writes inspiration or on a schedule: "Of course, I write by inspiration. Fortunately, it comes every morning at a quarter past nine. " Do their job, even if you do not feel the excitement. Ironically, it is the fastest way to gain inspiration.

6. evert

You're a man, so your thoughts certainly seem close to other people. Write about what touches you personally. And your feelings the other person is sure to find something familiar.

7. Invite viewers on a journey

The reader wants to go to new place. The reader wants the conflict. The reader wants the conflict was resolved. The reader wants to know what will happen in the end. The reader wants to history. Tie it all together and let it.

8. Remember the analogy of the night the headlights

Another great advice from Doctorow: "It's like running a car at night. You will never see the light on your headlights, but you can drive all the way. " It sounds scary, but just start writing.

9. Beware of your inner voice

We can advise you not to listen to the inner voice that says that it does not work, you're not a writer, and you should not even start. But it is difficult to ignore, we can say, if not impossible. So just be aware of it.

Inner voice should be the background, as the ticking of a clock in your room.

Pretend not to hear him, contradict him, laugh at him. And finish the damn sentence until he briefly left you alone. Your life will vary depending on what you listen to this voice or not. We hope that you will choose the second option and will write.