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Lack of Inspiration? - Let's get inspired!

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    Imagine this, you are writing your book, all of a sudden you run out of ideas and don't know what to do... I have some advice to help you get inspired!      We all feel uninspired sometimes, am I right? We desperately want to create - to draw, to write, to make music... but, we are not progressing because of the lack of inspiration. Throughout the years I have been writing I found the best solutions to help me get inspired and to get back to my game!      All writers have a writer's bloc at some times and we try everything just to get that little image in our heads for the next scene, chapter or even a breakthrough! I want to share some of the tips that I use to get me inspired when I feel like - WHAT THE HELL SHOULD I DO NOW?!        First - Reading      Reading books is something that is a MUST when writing. If you read, you learn. You learn new words - words that you maybe don't use in your everyday life. Those words may get you inspired! Take this as an example, thi

Writing a Book - What should you know before you start?

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     You want to start writing a book, and you want some tips on how to do it? Well, you came to the right place! How I started writing...      I started writing when I was 16 years old. It has been three years since I started writing my first novel. Throughout those three years, I learned a lot because I have researched and worked a lot. That is the IMPORTANT KEY to writing a book - research.     But first ... let's take a look at the steps: First step - Idea      Whether you are a Plotter or a Pantser, the idea is what you need to write a book. (A quick description of the meaning of plotter and panster is up on my first post - How to Write a Short Story) For me, I always have a basic idea of what I want to write. I like to call that idea a skeleton. While I am writing I am building the meat and the skin over the skeleton.     An a verage word count of the idea I have for a book is up to 500 words (never counted, but approximately saying)      I have seen the video on Y