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How I Started Writing Fantasy Fiction
As I have enjoyed reading since I was very young, I have also enjoyed writing for almost as long. I’m not exactly sure when I started writing my own little stories, but I do know that I have some very vivid memories of wanting to write a novel when I was in middle school. In fact, there was a specific notebook that was one of the first ones I dedicated to using only for my personal writing. It was a large wide ruled notebook with a yellow to orange ombre cover with an orange plastic spiral binding. I used this notebook to write simple ideas, parts of actual stories, and…
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Prewriting: To Do It or Not To
Note: Every writer is different and some writers work better with different methods. These are just my thoughts on what I like doing and they might help you if you are unsure how to get started writing once you have an idea or if you’re wanting to try a new method out. I hope it’s helpful! Once you have a new idea and want to get writing, the question is, do you just right into writing story, or do you predevelop some ideas and flesh out some characters? Well, it can be hard to know what to write when you’ve got an idea, but don’t have anything beyond a simple…
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Start With an Idea
Having an idea or something to write about is an important starting point when writing. It’s hard to write a book if you really don’t have any idea of what you want to write about. This doesn’t mean everything has to be fleshed out at the start, but you do need a base of something that sparks your imagination and gets you writing. Coming up with an idea is often a very personal process. Different people have different processes that work best for them. Sometimes ideas come easily, but the ability to stay motivated on the idea is the hard part. Other times, it takes forever to come up with…
