How To Easily Write A Negative Character Arc?

So you are trying to write a negative character arc. The negative character arc is one of the most popular there is, and that’s because it can be quite exciting. If done properly. Do it badly, and people will find your story more than just boring. You can learn how to write a story, and how to write a basic character arc else where. So, how do you write a negative character arc? To write a negative character arc, you must write an inversion of the positive arc, which in essence is just a failed character arc. So, in a positive character arc, the character has a flaw, which makes them have a false belief. The character acts out their false belief, leading to problems in their life. So the character tries to get a goal that will fix their issues. In their chasing of the goal, they learn that the real problem is their false belief, and so they face their flaw. They overcome, and as a result, they receive the goal as a bonus. But in a false character arc, the character fails to deal with their false belief. They fail to overcome their flaw, and finally, they fail to receive their goal in the end. Well that is a mouthful. Let’s get into the article, and breakdown what exactly was said here. What Makes A Negative Character Arc? A negative character is a character arc where the character progression fails in one of it’s steps, leading to a failure in character progression, and thus the character ends up in a worse place than they should be in. If you’ve read my character progression article, you know that there are steps that a character must take to progress. In summary, these steps are; having problems in their lives, chasing a goal that will fix their problems, meeting challenges that show them the cause of their problems is their false belief, facing their false belief and discovering the truth, facing the villain again, and winning to claim the goal as a reward. In a negative character arc, the character fails in one of these steps, leading them to end up in a worse state when they begun the story. Now, want me to show you something cool? So, check it, there are three types of negative story arcs; the disillusionment arc, the fall arc, and the corruption arc. Now here’s the cool part. Where the character fails on the character progression list dictates which of these 3 negative character arcs it will be. Look. Types of negative arcs The corruption arc is when the character already has access to the truth. Think of breaking bad. He knows that selling meth is bad. But then through the course of the story, the character starts to drift away from the truth, and begins to believe the lie is true. This is usually in an attempt to defeat the villain, but it ends with their success coming at the cost of them being completely consumed by their flaw. This one breaks at the ‘facing the villain again’ part, since they use the lie to face the villain instead of the truth. The disillusionment arc is when they overcome their false belief, and overcome their flaw. But when they learn the truth, it is depressing. A character who believes they are powerless without other people, because of a flaw (they failed to protect someone when they were young). They have the problem of people not trusting them and getting hurt around them because they wont fight. Then, they chase a goal that will assist them. Maybe a power that will fight for them. But they meet a villain who exploits their flaw, and they end up learning the truth, which is that they have to fight for their loved ones. But when they do fight, they end up killing their loved ones. The truth was worse than the lie. Yes they could fight and protect their loved ones from enemies, but the truth was that this was only because their own strength would kill those people. Finally, the fall arc. This one is when the character refuses to let go of the lie, even with all the evidence. Their flaw is too powerful, so they hold on to the false belief, and they slowly lose everything around them. They crash and burn. How to Write A Negative Character Arc? 1. The Negative Character Arc Begins With The Hero’s Flaw The first step to write a negative character arc is to write the character’s primary flaw. All characters have a flaw in stories. Except maybe flat characters. These flaw help the character grow. They are as important in negative character arcs, because they help the character fall to the abys. You will need to write for your character a flaw. The flaw usually derives from their backstory somehow. A character whose flaw is that they are untrusting could be caused by a childhood of abandonment. A simple exercise to help you improve your flaw is to try and find one word to describe it. Guilty, insecure, arrogant, vengeful, and whatever have you. This exercises is useful because it will help you distinguish the flaw from the false belief. Most people mistake these two. 2. False Belief Leading to Problems The next step to writing a negative character arc is writing your characters false belief. The false belief is the logic behind each of the character’s actions. This logic derives from the flaw the character has, which is just a feeling for now. The character is unaware of their flaw. The logic derives from the feeling but the logic isn’t the feeling. For example, someone who is selfish (flaw) because they family was stolen by their step family as a child (backstory the flaw comes from) may think that the best way to live in the world is to only look out for yourself (false belief). This false belief leads to actions that cause

How To Write Compelling Character Progression/ Development

The one thing that makes all stories magically is arguable character progression. I’ve already shown how to write a story, and how to be be consistent with your writing. However, there is more to writing than that. It is paramount that all who wish to take part in this path of writing need to know how to write a satisfactory character arc. So, how do you write a satisfying character arc? To write a character arc, you must write your character in such a way that they behave in one way at the beginning of the story, which causes them problems, so they chase a goal to fix the problem but instead they learn the problem is within themselves. Then have them overcome the problem within, and as a reward, they receive the goal they were searching for. Then at the end, demonstrate the change, through showing how they do not find the same old problems as challenging anymore. A tip would be to use personality quirks, and character design to demonstrate their character arc. Change the clothes they were, the way they speak, and some of their signature traits to something more positive at the end of the story, showing their internal growth. That is a bit wordy, I know. So I will be explaining it in details, along with a step by step process of how to do it, in this article. Hope this helps, now let’s get to it: What Is a Character Progression? A character progression is when a character moves from the way they are to another manner in order to be able to solve the central conflict of the story. The simplest way to explain this is to say it is when a character moves from being one way to another. The best way is to take a character at the beginning of the story, and place them to their future self at the end of the story. The difference you see between these characters is character progression. Some examples of character progressions are when: However, the truth is that this process could go on forever, with a number of different variations. You see, a character is the manifestation of ideas. This is explained on the how to develop a character article. I’ll summarize it here. Basically, a character is built around a central flaw. The character believes this flaw because of past experiences, and because of this flaw they believe, they live out a life that causes them problems. So the character chases the goal of the story, believing it will solve their problems. In the process of chasing this goal, they realize the flaw they believe and change themselves inside, and as a result, they are rewarded with the goal they were seeking. So, you can see why this has such endless examples to draw from. This flaw (believing they are worthless, or weak, or that the world is for those who take what they want) could lead to all sorts of problems (shyness, over carefulness, pride, selfishness, and the likes), that it is an endless list. In spite of that though, there are still only 3 types of characters arcs. There is the positive character arc. Here, it is when the character sees they flaws, and overcomes them. Then there is the negative character arc, which is where the character fails to see their flaw, and they never change. Then there is the flat character arc, which is when the character has no flaw, but their character progression manifests through the other characters around them. How To Come Up With A Great Character Progression? 1. Introduce the character, and show their physical design To Signal The Character Progression You need to write introduce the character to yourself, then to the readers. First, you’ll need to meet the character. This means you need to develop the character. There’s an entire different article on how to do that, but basically, character development, and progression is like building a car (development) and then driving the car to win the race (progression). If you are too lazy to read that one, understand that the easiest way to develop a character is to use their physical design. Picture the scene you saw them in in your head, and ask what they are wearing, how do they speak, how do they move. Make note of these things and decide why they are like that. Finally, when it comes to the writing part, you need to make sure that you have a moment where you introduce the character to the readers. This means you need to show who they are physically. 2. Show the Character Motivation, why they want what they want etc Before Starting The Character Progression Then you need to introduce the character’s motivation. For this one, you can do it in 2 ways. If you have a sharp scene in mind of that character, then meditate on it. Ask yourself why they are doing what they are doing? And to what end? What is their motivation? I have another article for that which is more detailed. The second way to do this is to simply write the motivation from your mind. For who are they fighting? To protect what, or gain what? 3. Show the Character’s mistaken Belief Then, you need to figure out the character’s flaw. Next, you have to create the character’s flaw. When you have the character’s motivation, and physical design, it is only natural that you will be able to figure out what the character’s flaw is. The flaw is not the problem. Basically, if a character is a shy character who does not stand up for themselves, that’s the problem, not the flaw. The flaw is why the character is so shy. Maybe they believe that they do not deserve to be heard. Maybe they think they have nothing of value to give. These last 2 options are a flaw. When you’ve figure out the flaw, you need to

So… How To Find The Theme Of Your Story? (2023)

Whether for a school project, or for your own personal writing study sessions, it is useful to have the ability of identifying the theme in a story. Yet no matter how simple this trick is, it seems as if there is always someone out there complicating it for themselves. Well then, how about I show you how I usually go about determining the theme so easily yeah? To find the theme in a story, I usually try to analyze 6 elements of the story; character, setting, plot, POV, stakes and central conflict. The easiest is the character, where you observe the main character’s flaw and use that to determine the plot. Then, you can observe the setting, and try to see the recurring problems the world brings, and that could hint at the plot. You can also look at the plot, and try to see how the main character deals with the hurdles. This could be the theme. You can observe what is at stake if the character loses, and that could be the theme. Finally, you can look at the central conflict. What’s the core battle in the story? How is it fought, and for what? That could be the theme. Again, I am aware this is not too specific. That’s what we have all these lower bad boys for. So, why don’t we just get into: What Is An Example Of A Theme In A Story? A theme is the central opinion that the writer holds on what the best way to live life is. This idea found in ‘The Anatomy of Story’ by John Truby is the best way to understand theme if you wish to identify it more in the story. When you understand theme as the writers opinion, you understand that it does not necessarily have to be write or objective. Then when you understand that it is their idea on what the best way to live life is, you will know why some character’s suffer, and others succeed. Those who succeed I’ve their lives in the way that the writer believes is best, and those who don’t succeed failed to do what the writer thought is best to do. Examples Consider the movie Scarface. Our main character rises the ranks in a drug empire, ending up as the boss. But that is not enough for him. In the end, his ambitions lead to him being killed. So what could he have done to survive? Well, if he had been content with his life as it was, and been humble it would have helped. So we can then conclude the theme is ambition. How ambition can be dangerous, and harmful. How it is best to live a “normal” life instead. A simple technique yo ca use to identify theme is the naming technique. Just use one word to describe the writer’s opinion, and you will know what the theme is. Theme examples can be things like; love, justice, family, honor, compassion, carefree, or hardworking. An example of how these could manifest is in How to Train Your Dragon. In the story, the main problems the characters face is dragons killing them, so they want to end that. The only way they manage is when they learn to accept the dragons, and love them. This leads to the dragons accepting and loving them, and concludes with all of them living together in peace and harmony. That is a theme example. How do I Identify The Themes? 1. You Could Listen To The Dialogue For The Theme The first technique you could use to determine is to listen to key phrases in dialogue. Sometimes the theme of the story is so easy that the writer can just have the character repeat the word that describes the theme over and over again. So the first technique to try and identify the theme is to listen to the dialogue in the story. You could easily use some sort of app to count the most recurring word, and that right there is your theme (obviously it won’t be ‘the’, since I’m sure that will come up a lot in Angles). Sometimes though, the theme is not repeated throughout the story numerous times. Instead, it is said in the most heated moments of the plot. For example you could have the villain dramatically look at the hero and say, “I did it for the reason everyone else does what they do. Revenge.” And boom. Your theme right there is revenge, even if it was said only at that point in the movie. So the first technique is to pay attention to the dialogue. The word said most frequently, and the words said at the most heated parts of the story are the themes. 2. Observe The Character Arc To Find The Theme The second technique you could use to identify the theme is observing the character arc. This one is a bit more complicated then the last, but it works about 3 out of 5 times. Basically, look at your lead character’s flaw, and false belief. What lesson must they learn, and what flaw must they overcome in order to defeat the villain? Must they become less selfish, or more bold? Must they become more forgiving, or more decisive? Look at what your main character is at the beginning, and look who they become at the end of the story, then ask what they had to do to become that. What element did they have to change in themselves? More often then not, that would be your theme right there. Think of a character who is selfish, and does not like spending money. Then the story. Then the story ends with them buying things for other people. They had to become more giving. So the theme is something like compassion, giving or community. 3. Observe The Setting For Signs Of The Theme The next technique you could use to identify the theme is to observe what the setting of the

So… How To Write Conflict Within Your Story?

Sometimes as you write your story, you will find that your scenes and chapters are pretty… boring and conflict-less. It’s just two people talking about something, then going of somewhere. To make your book a page-turner, and a gripping experience, there is a secret ingredient. And the more you often this ingredient appears in your pages, scenes, and chapters, the more gripping your story will be. This ingredient is called conflict. How do you write conflict? To write conflict, you must write a situation where the character wishes to attain something, but there is an obstacle on their path. The first thing here is to give characters something that they want. This can be physical, or abstract. Then, you need to place an obstacle in their way of attaining that thing. Again, this obstacle can be physical, such as nature or another character (antagonist) or it can be spiritual and abstract. Then, you need to write out the scene, chapter, or indeed book, using a structure that extends the tension into the story and accentuates the conflict. Again, word vomit. I’m so sorry, and you know I love you. That’s why, I am just about to explain exactly what I mean with each step of this salad, fair? Fair. Now tug yourself in, and allow me to get into: What Is Conflict In A Story And Examples? Conflict in a story is when a character wants one thing, but there is an obstacle standing in their way, so they have to get what they want through dealing with the obstacle first. Though conflict is such a crucial step in writing, and many people often failure to write it properly, it is a very simple thing for humans to understand. After all, we have all been in conflicts in our lives. Maybe you are your sister fought for the remote, and your mother came around, now you have to do everything in your power to avoid a whooping, so you tell your mother pretty much anything. The point here is that conflict is supposed to be easy to understand, but people still struggle to write it. This is because conflict in writing tends to look different from real life conflict. In writing, the conflict may not necessarily feature two different people fighting for one thing. Sometimes it is a person, fighting with nature for something intangible. Like a knight who is dying at sea, and must decide whether to kill the child they are with or let them die painfully. Honor is the goal here, and the problem to this honor is the miles between land, and our honorable knight. Other examples of conflict could include; The dimensions can change. Sometimes it is dramatic, and realistic. Sometimes it is fantastical, and action packed. Yet other times still, it can be minor, such as a in a minor scene where one character wants to go smoke outside, but another is standing in their way, and trying to get them to agree to go to an annoying party. But the structure remains the same. There is a goal, there is an obstacle to the goal, and the conflict is the character’s attempts to resolve this dilemma. How Do You Write Conflict In A Story? 1. Give Them A Goal To Attain for Conflict to Appear You Need To Write a Goal For Your Character. The first step is to make sure that it fits the scale of the situation. If it is a scene, the goal can me minor like wanting to go to sleep, or get fresh air outside. It can also be massive if the scene is a climactic scene of the chapter, such as the character wishing to persuade the soldiers to live in their farm house longer even though they have no money, because they are scared of the bandits returning when the knights leave. There should be a goal in full chapter/act too. Here the goals tend to be bigger, such as defeating this guy, or getting this girl to come kiss you. Also, the goals can be physical, or emotional. If the goals are things like objects, money, or something like getting a husband. Emotional goals are things that are usually behavior dependent. Maybe they want to feel appreciated, or honorable, so they want people, to see them as such, and behave as if they are. Also, it could be ideological based. Maybe the character has a set of beliefs they do not want to infringe and this behavior will infringe them, I suggest you write physical, and emotional goals simultaneously. 2. Give Them The Problem Standing In The Way Of Attaining This You need to write an obstacle standing in the way of their goal. Again, the obstacle can be physical, or in nature. Physical obstacles tend to be other characters. However this does not always mean the villain. Sometimes the character’s own allies can be an obstacle to their goal. Maybe the character’s allies wish to protect the character from a dangerous adventure, so they try to stop them from going. Or maybe the character has to watch over a frail family member, so they cannot afford to travel to Paris to try and court their lover there. Stereotypically though, the obstacle is the villain. Someone who maliciously tries to obstruct the hero. The problem with this though is that the villain is not by the character’s side throughout the whole book. There are scenes where the villain isn’t there, and it is in those scenes that you need to find a way to make obstacles out of allies, and other figures. Sometimes the obstacles can be natural. This means something like weather. Maybe it is raining so our hero can’t go out and practice how to beat their foe. In some instances it can be things like disease, or animals. Maybe even a mountain. Then there are the emotional obstacles. These are obstacles of ideology, and personality type. Maybe the character is being

How To Write A Positive Character Arc? (2024)

When you begin writing your story, you may run across a problem with the character arc. You don’t know how to fill your act 2. Sometimes, you know the beginning, and the end, but not the middle. Or you find that you are not sure how compelling your lead character is to the reader. Both these problems are fixed by the same thing; writing a character arc. This is a part of how to write a book series. If you want to learn how to have a productive morning, how to write consistently, and how to make an efficient writing schedule, you can learn here. So, how do you write a positive (or standard) character arc? In order to write a positive character arc, your character needs to start of the story with a flaw that gives them a false belief. This false belief makes the character behave in manners that brings problems to their lives, and they wish for a solution. They found a goal that will fix their problems, not realizing that the problems was a side effect of the real issue, their false belief. The character then attempts to retrieve the goal, but as they do, their efforts are thwarted by a different character who has the same flaw, but they have a darker false belief. This new character the villain, manipulates the hero as they realize they have similar flaws so they know how the hero thinks. The hero then discovers their false belief, and soon, their flaw. They overcome the flaw, and lose the false belief to receive the truth. After that, they fight the villain and the villain can’t defeat them since the hero has no flaw anymore, so the hero wins. It ends with the hero receiving the goal as a reward, but the real reward is that now they no longer behave in a manner that brings them problems. That is the standard character arc, or the positive character arc. There are different types of positive character arcs, and we will discuss those, along with the detailed take of this passage in the next couple of lines. Let’s get into it. What Is A Positive Character Arc? A positive character arc is a character arc where the main character manages to overcome their personal flaws, and find a truth with which they defeat the villain and are rewarded with the goal. A character arc is basically the transformation a character goes through in the story. They start being one way in the story, and due to the conflicts they have to climb, or mountains they have to climb, they end up being somewhere else. Being someone else. We’ve all seen a character arc. A character starts the story shy, but ends the story being talkative. Or a character starts the story, and it ends with them being humble. This is a character arc, but the thing is, character arcs are not always successful. Sometimes a character will start the story, and the story will end with them in a worse place then when they begun, and that is what makes a positive character arc. A positive character arc is a character arc where the characters start the story at a place, and they transform to become a better person by the end of the story, and end up getting positive results. The transformation of a character arc is character progression. There are steps to character progression. What makes a negative character arc, or positive character arc is the heroes failure or success in some parts of this character arc. What are the types of positive character arcs? There are no types of positive character arcs. Yes, there are types of characters. There are flat character arcs, positive character arcs, and negative character arcs. A negative character arc is split into 3 types; the disillusionment arc, the fall arc, and the corruption arc. But for positive character arcs, there are no types of them. How To Make A Positive Character Arc? 1. We Need to See The Character’s Flaws Before The Character Arc Can Start The first step to writing a positive character arc: Write your character’s flaw Before even doing character design, or character development, I always advise people to start with the character’s flaw first. After you have the character’s flaw, you will know what the story will look like in the future. This means you will be able to create a character development that fits the world. And you will be able to create a character design that enhances the coming story. But creating the character flaw is most important for when you are doing a character arc, as it is this flaw that the character will be fighting, not the cool monster, or awesome villain. So how do you write a character flaw? A simple exercises that you can use to create a character flaw is the one word punch. Basically, choose a single word that you feel fits the character you are envisioning in your mind. Selfish, arrogant, greedy, manipulative. I was working on a character last night, and the word I chose for her was ‘tribalistic’. This technique is important, as it will assist you to not mistake it for the false belief, which can often be mistaken for the flaw. 2. We Need to See The Character’s False Beliefs When the Character Arc Begins The second step to writing a positive character arc: Write your character’s false belief. Now that you have the character’s flaw, it will be easier for you to discover the character’s false belief. A character’s flaw derives from their backstory. If a character was abandoned by their parents at childbirth, their character flaw could be distrust. The character’s flaw tells us their backstory, but even more, it tells us their false belief. The abandoned character may begin to think that you can’t trust anyone in the world who does not owe you something. You could say they were abandoned by their

What Does It Take To Write A Book? (NEW)

Anybody can write a book. The majority of us have computers and word document on our laptops. So why then don’t people who have a story idea or a certain topic to discuss just write a book? Well, the truth is there is a bit more required to write a book. But it is not that hard in all honesty. You can learn how to be productive enough to write a book, and how to be consistent enough when you have started your book. Then, how do you do the step by step process to write a book? In order to write a book, you must first get yourself a strong motivation that will allow you to write consistently over a long time span, then when you are writing consistently you must focus on improving your writing skills through practice, drafting and editing. Finally, you must show your book. This can be to friend’s, schoolmates, publishers, or a writing competition. it does not matter. Just put yor work out there. Again, I know. Mouthful. But what you must understand is that in spite of how long this looks, it is actually just 3 simple stages which are a one time implementation. After you’ve implemented them, you never have to do so again. What Writing A Book Looks Like? Writing a book follows 5 stages; inspiration, planning, research, drafting, and editing. The first stage of writing is the inspiration stage. The inspiration stage is when you get inspired (shocker) to write a book. Maybe your own personal life, or the life of someone you know is so dramatic, you wish to write a book about it. Maybe its a song. Even if you were sitting there and you suddenly realized something about the relationship between the French revolution, and the Meiji Restoration’s similarities. It does not matter. All that matters is you think to yourself. “”This should be a book. Who can I get to write it? Wait… why don’t I write it?!” Then there is the planning stage. This is where you flash out your idea to a massive cohesive story, or argument. You could do an outline if you prefer detailed plans, or you could just dot down random scenes, and ideas that come to mind if you prefer being a pantser. This is followed by the research stage. In the research stage, you will have research the topic of your book. You could read other books, websites articles, or physically go wherever you need to go, and experience the phenomena yourself. This research is necessary to augment your planning, as it will make everything much more realistic. After that you will have the drafting stage. This is when the author does the actual writing/ typing of the book. This is the longest stage obviously, and it is also the least exciting for others, but the most rewarding for others. After a few months, you will have finished your manuscript. Finally, we have the editing stage. After your book is complete, you will look at it and realize that it is one of the worst atrocities of modern warfare. You must then do developmental editing. This is when you observe the story as a whole (the characters, the plot, the setting, and the laws of the world. In a non-fiction, you will be looking at the structure of the arguments), and try to see if they all fit together, and naturally lead to the other. When all that is complete, you can do line editing. This is when you look at the sentences, and try to see if they make sense. You observe the metaphors, the spelling, and the words people use. This could be draining, and completely unrewarding as you do it. When you are done though, you will be very satisfied with your efforts. This is how your average author writes and completes their book. How To Write A Book? 1. Start Writing And Be Consistent The first thing that you do before you write a book is build yourself so that you will be consistent, and you will keep writing for up to a year. The hardest part about writing a book is not necessarily coming up with a story. Its not even writing “prettily”, since most people could learn just how to do that just with practice. The hardest part is instead getting yourself to sit down, and write everyday. The reason why this is so hard boils down to the main misunderstanding about writers. People believe writers write because they enjoy writing. That’s true for some authors. It’s clear that writing for them is a passion. For others though, it is not so. In fact, a study conducted found that mental disorders are extremely high amongst authors, which tends to happen due to how stressful the whole writing experience is for them. Yet they manage to finish their book, and begin writing another one again. Why? The answer is simple, and it is why most people can’t handle writing. Authors don’t write because it is fun. They don’t write because they will get paid for it. They don’t even write because a book will be finished when they do. Authors write because they are writers. 3 steps you must take to be a consistent writer are; 1 overcome your non-writer mentality, and shortcomings, 2 adopt a writer identity, and 3 build habits that will support your writer identity. Overcome Your Mentality Most people place writing and authors on a certain pedestal, and crucially, they place themselves beneath the pedestal. This means that they view authors through rosy tinted eyes, calling them things like smart, or hard-working. It’s fine to be nice. What Is not fine is to turn around and start degrading yourself to do it. The first thing people tell themselves is that they are stupid, so they could not write a book. The truth is, writing a book does not take intelligence. If you can speak, you can write a book.

Where to Get motivation To Write Your Book? (NEW)

It is one of the most disheartening thing when you find you just don’t have the motivation to write anymore. For how to get inspiration to write a book, and how to create a schedule for your writing, you have to go to those links. That’s now what we are covering here. You have the story in mind, but you just have no drive to outline it, to draft it, to edit it, or to do anything. It burns, because you really want to have the drive to do it. But you just don’t. When in this state, what’s a simple way to make sure you get the drive to actually begin writing your book? In order to get motivation to write your book, you’d first need to change your physical conditions so that energy begins moving through your body until you have latent kinetic energy. This energy is the one that fills you with the energy to do something. Then, you need to change you psychological condition which can be done by infusing your body with the desire for writing, a crave for the gains of writing, and a fear for the act of not writing. A mouthful indeed, but I swear, it is a practical step by step process that you can enact. Try it once, and it should work immediately. It always has for me. However, let me get into this article, and explain the mechanics behind this technique and why its so effective. And of course, how to get about doing it. We shall begin: 1. Why Is It So Hard To Write A Book? It is so hard to write a book because writing a book requires you to concentrate over a long period of time, which is not something normal for any other sort of creation process. Writing a book is probably one of the hardest things in the world, and if you think about it, it makes sense why. It is not physically demanding like mining. Instead, it is psychologically demanding, like writing a test. However, it is a test that you will have to write for days, and months on end instead of one session. The closest thing that is similar to writing a book is a sort of assignment from university, but even with that it tends to have clearly defined time deadlines, and also you mostly write down what you research online. When writing a book, you need to concentrate, and pay attention to the words you use. Are they proper and accurate? Then you need to focus on how the words work together. Do they create the appropriate atmosphere for the scene? Then, you need to focus on the content of the words. Is the world cohesive? Are the character’s actions cohesive? This is a lot of concentration to do, and it is concentration you must do for hours a day, for days of a week, for weeks on end, and for months at a time. It’s no wonder authors suffer such severe mental distresses. No one would be able to bare all of that. Not without a healthy dose of motivation. And that bit is an often misunderstood concept in itself. 2. Why Am I Not Motivated To Write A Book? The reason you are not feeling motivated to write your book is because your motivation has been burned out due to improper writing practices, and also not refilling your motivation gear. I think the primary problem I see with most people is that they have 2 primary misconceptions of what motivation is. #1 Motivation is limitless. No motivation is not a limitless pool. Instead, it can be used up, and then you will need to recharge it. Numerous studies have been done that show how motivation to act could be exhausted. In one study, they had two groups. One was asked to do a series of questions, while another relaxed. Then, they were given a test. The relaxed groups always did better, because they’d saved up their willpower. People often burn out their motivation through working tirelessly and with no breaks when they feel passionate about their work. Then, they start to tire, and the writing becomes physically stressful. Also mentally stressing, as you must try to keep the story, plot, and characters in mind. Then, this lead to anxiety about writing, and they start avoiding writing. Then you thin about how you wished to be a writer, and get depressed at your “failure”, so you run away from the whole notion. #2 Motivation is a burning fire. That is passion, not motivation. Motivation is when you feel like doing something, and you feel capable of doing it. You feel a kinetic (movement) energy. Professional writers write for hours without feeling a sense of burning passion, and they finish the book. Beginners only wait for the passion, and as a result, never finish writing their work. Motivation in my eyes, is no different from willpower. However, it is different from excitement. As a result, motivation can be consciously recharged, unlike excitement which can’t be recharged. 3. What Drives Authors To Write? Authors are driven by a motivation built from a desire to gain something, to do something, and a fear of not losing something. As mentioned, motivation can be charged like willpower. Willpower is charged in a number of ways, and there are more detailed steps to take here. In short, you need to do something you do not want, such as a cold shower, or wash your teeth with the wrong hand. However, for more writing concentrated efforts, it is important to understand the principles behind it first. Authors motivation is built from these 3 place; a desire to gain something, a desire to do something, and a fear of not losing something. A desire to gain something. Basically, this means wishing to gain something material. This can be surface level things like fame, money, and power. But it can go deeper. You could wish

How To Improve Your Writing Conditions (Environment And Emotional)?

For reasons that will be covered later in this article, it is of paramount importance that you have some sort of improvable writing conditions as a writer. This is a trio post to the how to create time to write, and how to use this time most productively post. In summary, a writing space is what separates people who write for fun, and professional writers who wish to take their writing to a pro level. The question then follows; how would you create a writing space if you wanted to write? The first thing that you need to do when creating a writing space is to select a location, then create a consistent atmosphere whenever you write at that location. The location you choose should primarily be a place where you are most comfortable, and you can sit there for hours. To this end, it would be best if it were something that supported your back and joints, such as a table, chair, or couch. However, there have been writers who sit on the floor, or lay down when they write, so just pick one that you can do for hours. Additionally, the place needs to have a consistent atmosphere so that your mind is comfortable there to the point the environment seems to disappear. So try to make sure it has the same smell, sounds, and tastes. Most people prefer a quiet place with some privacy. But there have been writers who prefer a mildly noisy place like a coffee shop, which is also consistent atmospherically because it has to. It’s a business. Basically, that is enough for you to begin your writing spaces. But if you need to understand just how pivotal a writing space is for writers, and additional tips of just how to build a writing space, then here’s an article. Why Is A Writing Space Important? A writing space is important to authors because it allows them to have consistency by providing a mechanism that allows them to activate their writing mood on command. As a person with a passion for writing, it is easy for you. All you ever do is write whenever you feel like it. When you do not feel like writing, you just don’t write. In some instances, you wish you could write, but you just can’t get yourself to do it. But it still does not matter, because you will suffer no negative repercussions for not writing. Either than a wounded pride. But what if you have a family to feed? What if you are on the verge of finishing you college year, and you want to be an author? What if you have to hand in a book before the deadline for your publishing firm? Then you cannot afford to write simply because you feel like it. This is what separates passion writers, and professional writers. The pros can make themselves write fairly consistently even if they do not feel like it. There are many ways that pros manage to make themselves write when they do not feel like it. However, the one we are going to discuss here is a writing space. A writing space though has more than just this use. They can also: How To Create The Proper Spaces? 1. Have A Writing Location To Improve Physical Writing Conditions The first tip to building a writing step is to select your writing location. There are two main aims of a writing space; physical, and psychological fulfilment. Physically, it should be a place where your body can rest comfortably with no problem. I use a table, and a chair, which I’ve been using since I was 12 years old. I am as rigid as a board, so I can’t cross my legs. But I knew a girl who could sit on her bed, legs crossed, and she’d stay there for hour. So I suggest you be honest with yourself. What position can you sit in and forget your body even exists? Then choose a location that caters to that. Additionally, it should fulfill your psychology. Basically, it should be a place where you feel least social aware. If I were to be in a coffee shop, or anywhere public, I’d feel to hyperaware about people watching me. So, all my writing is done in my private room. Currently, I am in college so I have even more privacy, but previously I lived with my family. We weren’t the richest people in the world, so we only had one table, and it was in the living room. Meaning I did most of my writing next to a pack of laughing hyenas. Lovable hyenas though, so even if I were stuck in a suitcase with these creatures, I’d be comfortable. So choose a place that allows you to feel psychological comfortable, and where you could stay for hours, and literally forget yourself. 2. Try To Have The Same Music To Improve Emotonal Writing Conditions The second step to building a perfect writing space is to try and create a auditorily consistent space. That sounds like a big word, but it just means musically. You need to create a space that sounds the same. Again, this is why more private spaces tend to be efficient, because you have control of the music you have there. But if you go to public places that are business owned, such as a tea shop, or library, then you will still get consistent sounds. If you were to go to places like parks, and stuff, then you just don’t know what TikTok star may pop up in front of you to do… stuff. Personally, I have a small speaker, on which I listen to 3 main albums; Luther Vandross Greatest hits, Whitney Houston Greatest Hits, and Norah Jones Greatest hits. If you decide to choose silence as your auditory consistency, that could work. But the thing with silence is that it is hard to create. Of course, I have an article on how

How To Get Inspiration To Write A Book? (2024)

It is amazing to consider that while most beginner writers can barely come up with inspiration for 2 stories, there are people who come up with stories weekly. From mangaka, to episode writers, there are professional writers out there who are constantly releasing new work and getting great reviews for their efforts. Now there are ways of using specific techniques to be able to write consistently, but that does not explain where the ideas for these books come from Of course then this begs the question; how do you get inspiration to write a book? Getting Inspiration You can get inspiration to write a book by changing your perception of the world, and allowing yourself to see the world through storytelling. By doing this you will be able to turn every situation, from physical situation to emotional situations, into a story. Physical situations can be bizarre interactions you have (.e.g. I once accidentally took my crushes’ book home with me when I was 12, and had to return it at night without her catching me. She caught me, and figured out I had a crush on her.), interesting stories you witness, interesting characters you meet (.e.g. an astute child), and by being in pretty unique situations (.e.g. accidentally locked at school). Emotional situations derive from music you hear (e.g. a break-up song that moves you and makes you want to write a character who experiences that feeling for real), pictures you see, experiences you have, and all the sorts that make you feel a strong emotion. You could then write a story where a character actually experiences that. Now that was a mouthful. But do not worry, there are 9 key ways you can make sure that you juice all your physical, and emotional situations. I say which is an emotional, or physical situation. 1. Start Being More Contemplative For Inspiration This one is probably the easiest to implement, and it is mostly physical situations based implementation. As you go about your day, start thinking about the things you see, and hear. In class, think about what would happen if x or z? And 1hen you are hearing about a historical event, think what would happen if these people knew x and were able to z? When you are driving home, think what would happen if x or z? While doing groceries, think to yourself, what would happen if x or z? When you get an answer, follow the answer along, and try to imagine possible reactions to that. Try to extend that as far as you can, and you will be surprised how exciting the ideas can get. In my last book, I’d been reading about medieval England, and I wondered, ‘What would happen if a peasant experienced social mobility, and rose to the level of lords?’ I got the idea when I heard about Edward the 2nd giving lands to people who did not deserve it, and I wondered how the peasant would survive the hate of rising. Additionally, what if the peasant was a woman? Boom! I got inspiration for my book. 2. Start Listening To More Music For Inspiration. This one is obviously an emotion based thing. Basically, go to YouTube, and search the top performing songs. No matter the genre, listen to the songs. There is a reason why people liked that song, so listen to the song, and let yourself feel what those people might have felt. I will tell you, you won’t feel what those people felt, but you will feel something. You will get a feeling in your heart, and allow yourself to follow the image. Bonus points if you are already a maladaptive daydreamer like me (by the way, if you want to fix that, there’s an article for ya.) You could also try to listen to other genres of music, and imagine it in a movie scene. 3. Start Merging Stories In Your Real Life For Inspiration. This is another physical situations thing. Basically, look at the news, or events that happen to yourself, and try to imagine what would happen if certain elements of these stories were merged together. I recently watched a Penguinz0 video called ‘This Man Is Pure Evil’, which talks about some murder. Anyway, around the same time, I’d just come home from a run where I met one of the security guards in the dark morning. The guy was different from any of the security guards I’d met, because as I tried to explain why I was out running so early, he stopped me and told me he already knew me. That got me imagining what if this guy was also a murderer who intended on murdering me like the guy in Charlie’s videos? Or if I was a murder, and I’d let him see me for a couple of days, just to lure him in and make him feel like he was in the superior position, but no. You see? Just take elements of multiple stories (characters, scenarios, settings, actions), and mix them with other stories to make something new. 4. Start to rewrite stories that you do not like that had potential. This one is also more of an emotional situation. So, what you do is you watch movies, read books, and just go about experiencing entertainment. Then, if the movie ends in a non-satisfactory way, just imagine how you’d like the movie to end. When you have gotten the way you want to movie to end, you could use that to infuse it into your new story that you created. The best way to use this technique is to sift into the bare bones what you really liked about the story. For example, Game of Thrones. Many people hated its ending. The question then becomes, how would you have ended, let’s say, Jon’s story? Rewrite the story in your mind until you are satisfied. Maybe Jon becomes king afterwards. Alright, then why does this story ending satisfy you? Maybe because Jon

How To Make Time To Write A Book? (2024)

It takes a lot of time to write a book. Time that must be allocated to work, family, friends, our social life, and our health life. Basically, time that it sometimes feels like we do not have. However, there are techniques you can use to pull time out of thin air, and as a consequence, be able to complete your book. I must also add that it would not hurt to learn how to have an insanely productive morning, which will teach you a fool proof way of spending your new found time appropriately. So, how can you make time to write a book? The best ways to make time to write a book is to either to split your writing time between activities across the day, choose a specific time where you will be extremely focused, and productive, and you could also choose to on your book while doing other things. Basically, there are 2 things that you need to balance when writing a book; quality time spent with a book, and quantity time. You can focus on your book completely, and cover massive ground, but unfortunately you can only do this when you stop other activities, and sit down to write. Alternatively, you could spend the whole day writing your book in between tasks, and while simultaneously doing other activities. Unfortunately, you will only cover a few spaces in the book. The best way of creating writing time is by blending these two. That was not as much of a mouthful. We are getting to that now. Here are 12 ways that you can blend these two and create the perfect productive, and expensive system of creating time to write your book. 1. Create A Writing Calendar To Write A Book The first tip in finding time to write is to create a writing calendar. At the beginning of the month, or beginning of the year, select a number of days that you will be free. I said days not dates. So something between Monday to Sunday, not dates like July 15 – July 25. This is so that it can become a weekly repetitive thing, but if you choose dates, you’ll have to do that every month, and if it is not repetitive, it will not become a habit that you just do naturally. Think of it like this, every weekend as a kid, you always woke up and naturally remained in bed, because you were trained to associate weekends with rest days. Find days that you will train yourself to associate with work days. Obviously, you’ll need to write all these on your phone so that you will be able to remember them. Also, it would help if you were to fuse this one with the 3rd tip, and the 4th tip. Then you could add the 9th tip too. That’s how I always get time to write, but I will explain it in further details later. 2. Create A Writing Space To Write A Book The second step you could use to find them to write is creating a writing space. There are so many advantages to writing spaces, which are best covered her. But one of the advantages is that it allows you to associate the writing space with… well, writing. You mind automatically falls into a writing phase when you are in your writing space. if you want to know just how to make your writing space, there is an article here. For our purpose here, there is no point in setting apart time to write, if you’ll only sit there thinking about what you were doing before, and what you’ll have to do after. A writing space puts you in the mindset to write, even if it is just for 15 minutes, or even for 4 hours. Having a writing space will also assist you with tip number 10, which is also nice. 3. Use The Clearing The Table Technique To Make Time The third thing that you could do to write to create time to write is the clearing teh tabel technique. Picture a dinner table. When everyone is done eating, you will have to first identify all that’s on the table. Dishes, plates, cloths etc. Then, you will have to take things back to their place. Finally, you’ll have to clean the table, and leave certain things on the table, like your grandma’s urn or the vase plant. Whatever. The point is that there is a step by step process to it, and you can do that to your day to. Using an app called Appblock, look at what you spend most of your time doing on your phone. Or, you could look at where you’ve been all day. The best thing about Appblock is that it gives you hours, so you can see just what you were doing. So this is the first step. Identify what you were doing, and write it down. Then guess how much time you spent on each of the activities. After that, look at which are necessary, ad which are just a waste of time. Or just fun. Such as watching YouTube videos, watching movies, reading a book, or any such unnecessary activity. Remove these. Then look at the activities you can’t remove, such as eating, spending time at work, with family, with friends etc. Then rearrange these activities into the time slots from before. What you should be left with is at least 4 hours of free time. Everyone has at least 4 hours of free time when they do this technique. 4. Set time, and not word count The fourth time saving technique you could use is counting time instead of words. When you do get to writing, do not have a word count goal. Instead, have a time spent goal. Aim to spend at least 4 hours on the book, though for full transparency, I can only barely manage 3 hours, and usually I stop because I finish writing the