Daniel Gray and Kathleen Starrie - An igloo constructed out of milk cartons filled with colored water and frozen
I don’t write because I want to be famous, I don’t write because I want that to be my career choice. I write because that is what I enjoy, that is what I am good at and the journey it takes me on is unlike anything else in the world.
The more we concentrate on the pessimistic aspects, the more pessimistic we become.
My number is finally in!
Chairty Run →
In 31 Days I will be running 10km along Portsmouth sea front in aid of RNLI who save thousands of lives at sea every year. Please spare £1 for them. It would go a long way and make my efforts worthwhile!
Have a Break
My posts have been quite heavy recently. Full of advice but I think the best thing to do now is write.
Set some time aside in your week whether its five minutes or an hour and write something. It doesn’t matter what, it doesn’t have to even make sense, just write something. It is the best way of getting your ‘creative juices’ going.
Go on, try it.
Keep writing.
What Pearl of Wisdom for Today? - Let’s Plot!
Okay so maybe this should have been something that I started with but let’s just go with the flow.
Now plot is different to storyline.
It would be easier for me to explain this with an example:
Storyline - (Let’s keep it simple)
Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up got Jack, and home did trot
As fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
(Just to be accurate, I googled this!)
So here we have our storyline of Jack going up the hill with Jill and what happened after etc. Here I’m going to show you what the plot could be.
We could start with:
Jack’s in bed with a bumped up head
Wrapped in vinegar and brown paper.
So we have a completely different starting point which immediately makes it all a bit more interesting. Let’s develop this a bit more but instead of going back to the beginning and telling it from there, I’m gonna start in the middle:
All ‘cause Jack fell down, he’d broken his crown
Then Jill had tumbled after.
Now I’m going to go back to the beginning:
It had began with Jack and Jill up that hill
They’d gone to fetch some water
I’m going to put it all together (and let’s hope that it makes sense!):
Jack’s in bed with a bumped up head
Wrapped in vinegar and brown paper.
All ‘cause Jack fell down, he’d broken his crown
Then Jill had tumbled after.
It had began with Jack and Jill up that hill
They’d gone to fetch some water
So you can decide for yourself if that works or not (I’d say not too bad for five minutes work). Anyway my point is if you rearrange your storyline and try something new you could be surprised.
Keep writing and even try something new!
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