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Writers who desperately need to earn a living will have no other choice but to go on and write anything that will get in the bucks. But, comes the mental block, how will they go about writing about something that they are not even passionate about? How could a poet write about the technical aspects of a car? How could a literary writer do a news article on something as horrid as a vehicular accident?

Here are tips on how to be a flexible writer:

Research, research, research.

If a writer, especially one who is just starting out and still trying to learn the ropes of being flexible, gets assigned to write a topic that he or she knows nothing about, he or she will not go amiss with lots and lots of research. There are a lot of sites on the net that offers sample articles on just about any topic under the sun. Through research, the writer will be able to get an idea on where she or he has to do and what she or he still needs to look up to be able to come up with the facts needed in her or his article.

Read.

Aside from getting facts from the net for a story or an article, a writer will also do well by reading a lot of materials like newspapers, magazines, manuals or books that will help in constructing the pieces that she or he needs to come up with.

She was sitting inside a public transportation; then, all of the sudden, thoughts suddenly seem to swirl inside her head and she ached to be with a notepad and pen so she could write them all down. She finds a notepad and a pen, she is lucky and the thoughts became words. She does not find them, she gets upset as the thoughts she was nursing so tenderly like a baby dissipated like dust into the winds.

That is how writers go about in their daily lives. There are moments when they could think of nothing to write at all and times when they are bombarded with so many ideas that their hands could not keep up or the inks of their pens would run out, whatever comes first.

But there is always a question that bugs every writer, and that is, To write or not to write? When they are faced with the opportunity of writing about something that is not their forte, would they or would they rather not write about it?

Use the radio and TV as your eyes and ears.

A writer’s ears and eyes are also very important in coming up with a piece that she or he does not know much about. If she or he is told to write about current events, then she could use radio and television as sources of information as to what is happening around. From news reports or documentaries, she or he could get a lot of information for the piece she or he is working on.

Be always ready.

So as not to miss out on any tidbit of information, a writer must have a pen and notepad with her or him wherever she or he goes. A writer never knows when an occasion or happening presents itself that she or he could produce into an article that is worth a reader’s while.

Nothing is a waste for a writer.

When an idea presents itself to a writer, whether it be for money or for no reason at all, she or he jots it down. Writers never waste something that could get her or him writing. An idea, no matter how bad or juvenile, is an idea that could be worked on when the tough gets going.

So to write or not to write? If one is a real writer, one writes no matter what. Because when we get down to it, a writer is not just born but also made. With a lot of hard work and perseverance, a writer becomes outstanding when she or he could take on any topic and write something about it that will not only be just readable but a success.


- sunita

wadays it is possible to find any custom essays or services of custom writings, there are still a lot of people who are eager to learn the art of writing essays. Is it possible to teach somebody to write a creative essay? May be it is. Here we are going to tell you how!

You’ll need for this task books or copies of different ready essays. Also take magazines for students or notebooks, pens and pencils.

And now learn the scheme:

Stage 1

If you want to teach somebody to write different things ? your task is to make the process of writing interesting. Creative writing is another point! One of the secrets is to have as many examples as possible and to read a great number of various essays and written literature forms. At first, try writing without any plans, so that you will be used to putting your ideas into the written form. Try to find funny topics and interesting questions: “What would I do if I were an apple?” or something like “Try to tell about your steps of development as a personality?”

Stage 2

Break down the mystery of an essay. The problem is that very often people imagine essays just in form of boring, serious writings on scientific or educational topics. As the result, they have no desire to do such things or to learn how to do them. In this case your task is to show them their mistake ? show that essay topics can be various, and the style can be not so strict. Let them write on any topics they want. Teach people creativity; show them how to use imagination. Some people cannot write well because they cannot cross the limits of the essay’s rigid structure. Explain that it is possible to write in a creative way, forgetting some unnecessary limitations.

Stage 3

Many creative essays are often written in the 1st person: under these essays we mean various unusual biographies and auto-biographies. Give your “pupils” some examples of such essays. Let them study these writings and then ask them different questions related to the essays: what things or sentences were the most interesting for them, what images seemed evocative and memorable. We recommend you to start with emotional and intuitive variants of writing and only then try to embody some rules and structural tips; show them some terms. When the people will get used to the 1st person style, it will be much easier to write from the 3d person.

Stage 4

Teach to experiment not only with the form of an essay, but also with its look on the page. Some people are quite sure that each line must be a full sentence. It is not right! Sentences are not to have a strict order. Firstly, the results will not be the best; still the thing is that it is more difficult to cope with “free style” than with sharp limits and rules. Essay is not a poem, but at the same time it has its own structure. Moreover, there are many tricks in literature and in writing which will help to catch the attention of the readers and to make your essay interesting. Grammar, stylistic and punctuation norms are also of great importance.

- Gen Wright

Some years ago now, by grandfather died leaving me a diary that he had kept as a prisoner of war in 1944. Inside its yellowed pages and between the pencilled lines, I read things that he had never spoken about to anyone.

Reading my grandfather’s diary affirmed my own belief in writing as a tool for making narrative and meaning from our lives; writing as a process of letting go of negative feelings; and even writing as survival in the most difficult of circumstances.



What did you do as a child to express your feelings?

A children, many of us naturally create drawings and paintings or scribble little poems and stories in our notebooks or secret diaries. I can see my childhood diart no. It had a big solver lock with a tiny key. Just to be on the safe side, I carefully inscribed ‘My Private Diary. Please Keep Out’ on the first page.

As children we often naturally trun to pens and paper to explore, enact and process our feelings and emotions. And yet, as we grow up, we don’t lways remember to create space and time to do this. Our space for this essential creativity can so easily get stifled by our commitments and responsibilities.

But in the writing workshops and trainings that I run, people often tell me that during difficut periods in their lives, they have found themsleves quite spontaneously writing a poem, perhaps getting up in the middle of the night with a story in their head or feeling an urgent compulsion to write their feelings down in a journal.

I too found myself returning to daily creative writing during a turning point in my own life.

Since that time, I have used my creative writing and journaling techniques to work with people in business who feel stressed out, unhappy or that they have lost touch with a vital part of themselves; people who have been through pain, suffering and trauma, including survivors of imprisonment and political torture; people living with long-term illness and their relatives; university students; all kinds of people.

Writing as a daily personal development practice

Many people mistakenly assume that in order to be creative or feel creative, they must dedicate many hours each day to a creative task. However, just ten minutes of writing per day can be enormously helpful in releasing unhelpful thoughts and emotions, gaining insights or simply developing pleasure in the sounds and rhythms of the words on the page.

By cultivating a regular practice of just ten minutes of free-writing, you can find out what it feels like when your mind relaxes, allowing new possibilities to present themselves. You can learn to let go of the more conceptual and analytical ideas about yourself – those exhausting thoughts that buzz relentlessly around your conscious mind – and connect with the flow of your bodily feelings, images and ideas.

What is free-writing?

Free-writing is simply writing for a timed perios without editing, reading back or pausing. The idea is to just keep writing. You may being by writing ‘I don’t know what to write.’ Just keep writing. Keep your pen moving over the page or your fingers gliding over the keyboard. You might find yourself writing sentences or just words down the page. Ther eis no ‘right’ or ‘wrong way to do this. Just keep writing.

At the end of the writing session, simply tear up the page and throw it away.

That’s right. Let it go. It’s no longer useful to you.

Ths is about the process of writing rather than creating a product. Resost any temptations for analysis, editing, post-rationalisation. Just throw your writing away.

Experiment with this for five days - every moring or every evening - and I think that you might be surprised to  notice all kinds of little changes and insights into the way that you feel, perhaps even a new sense of freedom and possibility.

What are you waiting for.

Strat writing. Find out what happens next…






- Sophie Nicholls

Latley i haven’t been able to write anything. I even tried switching pens, but nothing works. Writing is my life. When i don’t write i feel empty inside, but i’ve been coming up short with ideas. I haven’t written anything in over 3 months. How do i get rid of this writer’s block?
- mikishunu