10-02-2005, 08:59 PM
I would highly recommend a notepad like SD mentioned. It saves you the time of sitting in front of your computer thinking of ideas and in addition, speaking personally, I get my best ideas for writing not when I'm at home crunching my brain but rather when I'm at work or most notibly when I'm driving.
Another helpful tip would be to set your environment when writing. I know this sounds a little silly, but I learned about it my creative writing class and found that it works very well. Basically, when you're ready to sit down and write, set the mood of your room. If you're writing something like a horror story or a sad scene in a current story then dim or turn off the lights in your room and put on some music or a movie/anime(not to watch, but for use as background noise) that makes you feel sad or whatever emotion you need to write the scene well. I cannot tell you the extent to how well it works. For example, I was having trouble with an action scene I was writing in one of my stories, so following this technique I put on some metal music that I thought fit the attitude of the scene while I was writing. If this is any indicator, I WROTE FIVE PAGES WITHOUT STOPPING TO THINK AT ALL. I did about 40 minutes of writing without even realizing and it came out suprisingly well.
Well, I kind of started to ramble but I hope you get the idea. Just try it out next time you plan to write and see how well it works for you.
Another helpful tip would be to set your environment when writing. I know this sounds a little silly, but I learned about it my creative writing class and found that it works very well. Basically, when you're ready to sit down and write, set the mood of your room. If you're writing something like a horror story or a sad scene in a current story then dim or turn off the lights in your room and put on some music or a movie/anime(not to watch, but for use as background noise) that makes you feel sad or whatever emotion you need to write the scene well. I cannot tell you the extent to how well it works. For example, I was having trouble with an action scene I was writing in one of my stories, so following this technique I put on some metal music that I thought fit the attitude of the scene while I was writing. If this is any indicator, I WROTE FIVE PAGES WITHOUT STOPPING TO THINK AT ALL. I did about 40 minutes of writing without even realizing and it came out suprisingly well.
Well, I kind of started to ramble but I hope you get the idea. Just try it out next time you plan to write and see how well it works for you.
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Izurei - Level 50 Cast, Rank 10 Ranger/Rank 3 Force (Future Guntecher) - Universe 2 or 15
Izurei - Level 50 Cast, Rank 10 Ranger/Rank 3 Force (Future Guntecher) - Universe 2 or 15