Let's learn how to generate our ideas from kak Ollie, the writer of most recent book I reviewed 'Passport to Happiness'
Spend morning in a bookshop or cafe
Keep a notebook to compile ideas--or in my case; a cup of coffee and a notebook
Read ALL kinds of books; yes I still read more than 2 books a day--I still try my best to do it
Break your routines, try to ignite stories--definitely!
“Steal” conversations from people--OMG kak Ollie, I love to do that too, although sometimes look like 'Nguping' hehe. is it still polite?
Talk to strangers! Talk to people you’re not usually talk to--Often, when I travel by bus, train or plane
Put your own stories or personal voice in it --Hm, not yet
Do online research & be organized--to be tidy is difficult. OK. I try
Start with excitements--Start with your best smile :)
Ask yourself: “What feeling I want to leave the reader?” --Question, anger, sadness even a happy ending.
Write down the title that make you focus on the story-- the most difficult thing in writing is making a good plot to read
Read samples of stories openers in other books
Begin the story in the middle
Lexicon – collect words and its meaning
Tweak clichés
Imagine the story in your head
Discuss the plot with someone else
Write a memo to yourself about the story
Write non-stop for 10 minutes
Write the part that excites you
Change your writing space, write everywhere
Have a daily schedule for writing, I write best in the morning
Make a list to accomplish
- Explore: read a lot
- Gather: research
- Organize: put it together in folders or notebooks
- Focus: one thing at a time
- Structure: use mind map
- Draft: switch off the phone and write, don’t stop until you need to, get the first draft done
- Reward: you can update your social media, travel more, etc
- Revise: time to edit and make it perfect
If you can say it better, record it first then edit the transcript
Build a story around conflicts and complications
Use mind map to create your story from A to Z, put your topic at the center of the map
If you’re writing a fiction, use 5 parts plan by Robert McKee.
- Inciting incident
- Progressive complications
- Crisis
- Climax
- Resolution
Research other writers writing techniques
Write scenes in Post-It. Play with it
Create “hills of middle” in the story
Collect good endings from books and movies
Pay attention to the editing part
- Check typos
- Does the dictions are right for the target readers?
- Is there any important questions you haven’t answer?
- Is there any leaps of logic?
- Recheck every facts
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