Random ideas that will help you say what you mean.

Wow. That was a really long title. Oh, well. Yup. It's Patricia. Again.

So I'm just diving in. No friendly greeting, no explanation why Emilie hasn't been on, no nuthin'. 

(Yeah. That was really "just diving in", Patricia. Seriously...)

Anyway. Here are some tips that will help you with your story(ies). Hah. I just made up a new word! Sorry...

1. If you're keeping it on the computer, (which you most likely are. It's the 21st century, guys.) than start a story on paper. Yes, you read me right. On paper. Kaboooom!!! And just like that, paper still exists! Yeah. So keeping a story on paper will help your computer googley eyes to calm down. Because if you attend VPSA, than you know what I mean. And if you don't? I mean, com'on. You probably spend a lot of time each day looking at a screen. 

So. Just keep a story in a notebook, a binder, I don't really care. Just do it on paper. It doesn't even have to be really good. But it really helps to have, what I call my "escape story". If I want to write my heart out, but am sick and tired of my computer, than I go to my story on paper. And it really works, too. 

2. Like we've said before, if you don't know what to write, don't write anything at all. If you're suffering from writers block, just take a break. I find that most of my awesome, amazing, wonderful, best seller ideas come when I am taking a break, because of writers block. And if it doesn't come to you while your taking your break? Ask a friend for help. I have a friend named Emma, and she gets writers block sometimes. (And vice versa). When this happens, after reading our stories to eachother, usually the other person asks: "so what do you think should happen next?"

It really works, too. It has helped me get un-stuck several times. 

So, yeah. Sorry this is short, but I actually have a life outside of blogspot. And that's why Emilie hasn't been on. 

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Keep writing!

<3

Patricia Rane