When I was younger I always wrote, I want to get back into writing, what is the best way?

Question

My parents and everyone else says I have a gift but I don't know how to use it you know. I want to use my writing to the best of my abilities. Help!

Answer 1

I took about a year off from writing, which isn't very long compared to what I think you're describing. When I actually tried to figure out why it was that I had stopped writing, I realized it was because a lot of variables had been changed. I came to the conclusion that I think clearer and come up with better ideas when I write late at night (between midnight and sunrise). My old job allowed me the freedom to to stay up all night and write, but my new one did not. So, I played around with my schedule and allowed myself some time late at night to just sit down and write.

That was just one variable that I had to play around with in order to be able to write again. Anyway, the point is, maybe you should try to get yourself into the mind set you were when you were younger and loved to write so much. Try to reclaim at least a small part of that time period when writing just flowed out of you and hopefully you'll be able to write again like you used to.

Answer 2

One: Find a course wherever you're living and apply yourself to it for learning your craft.
Two: Find people of like mind and keep their company as often as you can.
Three: Find the most succesful writers in the company you keep and emulate their standards, and techniques.
Four: Read and study the masters of your craft, both in the present and the past.
Five: Start building a library, and in your library keep a file of all your writings, all of your jotted notes, and all of your plot ideas, etc.
Six: Never throw any of your work out. Sometime in the future you can dig out a nugget of gold out of something you did thirty, forty, years ago and not even know it until you've used it.
Seven: Success is a state of mind. Decide your state of mind now. Money, completed writings, published work, or stories you have put to paper regardless.
Eight: Understand now that there isn't anything new under the sun. You aren't going to do anything original it's all been done and said before. Somehow, someway, sometime, somewhere, it has been done.
Nine: Study english literature and this will bring a strong command in your language, and develop your skills in spelling,punctuation,and all the required knowledge concerning the rules of your craft. (mind you though; it will only be the basics of your craft, but you have to know, and understand the rules before you can bend and/or break them, and you will want to; or have to do this for creative reasons.)
Ten: Learn to type. This I mean in the secretarial sense, your craft demands a clear and concise typography. Although it was good enough for Hemingway, and his peers I would say that the two finger approach is a poor way to write an essay, poem, short story, or a novel.
Buy a computer program called "Maevis Beacon Teaches Typing" get the deluxe edition and go to town!
Eleven: Immerse yourself in the five W's. Who, What, Where, When, Why, I know this is a journalistic approach but it is the five things people ask in all stories. Twelve: Pick up your pencil,pen, and paper and start now. Whatever comes to your wee sweet head....start it..........................
My best wishes for you.

Answer 3

Take a pencil or pen and paper and go for a walk. Find a a pleasant restful spot under a shade tree, near a brook or other water supply so you can hear the water running, pack a lunch and bring a cover to lie on and plan on staying for a while. Lay back and soak in the atmoshere for a while. As you rest listen to what is going on around you and begin to describe in your journal what you hear and see. Keep a journal to record these writings so you can refer back to them for future reference. On another day, go to a busy place where noises are crackling and popping. Find a place to sit down and record what you hear and see. Go to a play, a museum, or the ballet and do a review of what you watched. Keep journaling until you are able to use your mind to go places without leaving your home. Record your feelings, hopes and fears, situations and atmospheres. Pray and ask God to assist you with being able to be the best that you can be within your abilities. Try a little poetry to expand your horizons, too. Don't skip going places and writing because you NEED the experience of it to become a really good writer. Best wishes.

Answer 4

Just clear out an open space for yourself. Make sure it's open and clean, preferably near a window - creativity can't occur in a vaccuum. Keep things around (art, posters, pictures, and so on) that inspire you but don't distract you. Then practice. Maybe you liketyping on a copmputer, or typewriter, or by hand. It's all good, but the most important thing is that you do it.

Answer 5

u should keep writing. Write anythn, everythn that touches ur heart. Put it down on paper--excercise ur abilities. carry a journal wherever u go, and write down what u see and what touches u. Even when what u write makes no sense, keep writing---write everythn, anythn, until ur heart is touched to write somethn thats frum the heart. Then perfect urself by taking writng classes that will eventually help u to express what's in ur heart to others. A skilled writer is one who's able to communicate effectively what he/she feels so that the readers can feel as he/she feels. So i encourage u to go for ur goal.

Answer 6

Start with a pen/pencil/computer and paper.

Tell stories about your childhood. Or your feelings/events that are important to you.

Magaziens need short stories and they are needing personal stuff esp if you have an event that is unusual. A fire, or a mystery happened. Just get on with writing and be ready to get "rejection" letter from the magazines.

Just START and see what happens.

Answer 7

Oh my gosh! Same here. What I always do to come up with ideas for stories is I put on music I really love and just sit and listen, and ideas just flow in my head. The rythm of the music determines what kind of ideas you get. EX: sad, angst, happy ECT.

Answer 8

First, you need a regular time and place.

Second, you should write something every day.

Third, you should find someone to share your writing with, who will provide a friendly critique for you.

Answer 9

If you want to be a writer write.