 Noticing Newbies: April 12, 2023 Issue [#11909] |
This week: An Inspiration Situation Edited by: GeminiGem🐾  
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Hi! I'm GeminiGem🐾 and I am your guest editor for this issue of the Noticing Newbie Newsletter.
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AN INSPIRATION SITUATION
Which one of these options best describes you?
 1. I have a hundred writing ideas swirling around in my head at any one time! I have so many ideas that I have problems settling on one to work on.
2. Ideas come to me spontaneously anytime, anywhere. I keep a notebook of bits and pieces to use in future writing.
3. I feel the need to write and will actively hunt for inspiration to fill that need.
4. Some version of any of the options above, depending on the whim of my muse, the direction the wind is blowing, and the alignment of the planets.
There is not an incorrect answer. There may not even be a correct answer for that matter.
If you struggle with inspiration or ideas for your writing in any way, you are in good company, I assure you. WdC has some things to help you out.
Writing Prompts: In the left-hand column, scroll down to Writing.Com Tool and click on it. Then click on Writing Prompts. Challenge yourself! Grab the first one you see and roll with it. You can also keep scrolling for additional prompts.
Contests: Even if you don't like contests, don't want to enter a contest, or don't want to be tied down to a contest, you can still glean some inspiration from them. Love the contest prompt but hate the deadline? Give it a whirl anyway. The important thing is that you find something you want to write. Love the theme but find word count limits too restrictive? Don't let that inspiration pass you by. Fire up your keyboard and see where it takes you.
Work backwards to build your writing. Start with one important element and expand from there. Take the snippet of a conversation you hear between two people you don't know and weave a story where that bit conversation is very, very crucial. Pick a title of a story that would attract your attention if you saw it, and write something that would have that title. Pick an interesting name and then write something with the character that fits (or maybe doesn't fit) that name. It may not be your usual way of starting out, but it may be the thing that jars your creative process into inspiration.
What inspires you? I would love to hear about it!
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From my last Noticing Newbies Newsletter "Now What?" :
Jtpete 1986
This was absolutely the perfect piece I needed to read right now. Thank you.
I could ask for no higher praise! Glad you found the newsletter helpful.
Damon Nomad
Excellent advice on editing, which I did not learn for the longest time! I particularly want to emphasize what you said about setting a piece aside for a day or more and listening to it as well as reading it. I use WORD read-aloud in the later stages of editing, sometimes reading along sometimes only the sound. You can multi-task a bit, exercise and listen.
Those are some good ideas. Things often sound differently out loud than they do in our heads, lol |
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