The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever

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1. Do it. Write.Read as much and as often as you can. Remember, every writer is a reader first.Keep a journal or notebook handy at all times so you can jot down all of your brilliant ideas.Make sure you have a dictionary and thesaurus available whenever you are writing.Be observant. The people and activities that surround you will provide you with great inspiration for characters, plots, and themes.Invest in a few valuable resources starting with The Chicago Manual of Style, Eats, Shoots & Leaves,and The Elements of Style.Grammar: learn the rules and then learn how to break them effectively.Stop procrastinating. Turn off the TV, tune out the rest of the world, sit down, and write.Read works by highly successful authors to learn what pleases publishers and earns a pretty penny.
2. Read works by the canonical authors so you can understand what constitutes literary achievement.
3. Join a writers’ group so you can gain support from the writing community and enjoy comradery in your craft.
4. Create a space in your home especially for writing.Proofread everything at least three times before submitting your work for publication.
5. Write every single day.
6. Start a blog. Use it to talk about your own writing process, to share your ideas and experiences, or to publish your work to a live audience.
7. Subscribe to the top writing blogs on the Internet. Read them, participate, and enjoy!
8. Use writing exercises to improve your skills, increase your talent, and explore different genres, styles, and techniques.
9. Let go of your inner editor. When you sit down to write a draft, refrain from proofreading until that draft is complete.
10. Allow yourself to write poorly, to write a weak, uninteresting story or a boring, grammatically criminal poem. You’ll never succeed if you don’t allow yourself a few failures along the way.
11. Make it your business to understand language. Do you know a noun from a verb, a predicate from a preposition? Do you understand tense and verb agreement? You should.
12. You are a writer so own up and say it out loud: “I am a writer.” Whether it’s a hobby or your profession, you have the right to this title.
13. Write, write, write, and then write some more. Forget everything else and just write.

Bin-rainstorm na lalaki

I was watching a lot of romantic comedies lately and I was noting the difference between the female romantic lead and the male romantic lead.

the female romantic lead turns out to be very realistic, as women can fully absolutely relate to the story and even down to the quirks. pag nakanuod ang babae ng romantic comedy...shet! ako yan!

ang lalaki pag nakanuod ng romantic comedy - shet, sino bang nagsulat niyan?!

ang ending nagagalit ang mga lalaki sa writers ng mga pelikula o ng TV series. kasi kelangan nilang mag-level up dahil tumataas ang expectations ng babae sa lalaki in terms of panunuyo...mga grand gestures of love and the like.

so kasalanan ngayon ng writers ang lahat. haha.

ang tanong kelan ba ako makaka-meet ng lalaking bin-rainstorm? yun ang goal.

life imitating art na ang kalakaran ngayon. which is true.

new house!

new room near workplace so to speak.

fun!!!

all i need now is a boy to sneak in with.

Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

GHOST OF THE PAST

minsan mas maganda kung dumedma na lang.

don't sweat the small stuff

don't care too much.

kesa yung malaman mo at masaktan ka in the process.

diba?

goal for 2011

car at jowa

freakin excited!!!!!!!

new home near workplace

new travel on the 15th

funnnnn!!!!!!

can you feel it with the abundance of exclamation points of this post?

bitch post

i just finished emailing for this new thang so i decided to blog yet again.

sabi ng mommy ko ang pagpayat na lang daw ang kulang sa akin.

haha.

at boyfriend.

haysus.

bakit ba?

minsan nakakalungkot din. pero mostly i don't care. and mostly i am fine. i mean. arogante siguro talaga ako. kasi iniisip ko, mabuti nang walang boyfriend kesa magkaboyfriend ng jejemon. o ng punks. o ng lalaking walang direksyon at walang ka-cool cool.

bakit? kasi career-oriented ba ako?

ang passion ko na ba ang buhay ko?

siguro.

sa lagay ng buhay ko ngayon marami na akong dapat ika-thankful kay God. Happing-happy. pag may lovelife super love na ako ni God pag ganon. Super blessed baka hindi na maging fair. Ibigay ko na lang ang lovelife sa ibang tao. Hahaha. Echosera.

and anyway, i admit, materyoso ako. magiging high maintenance girlfriend ako.

gusto ko travels at hindi movie and dinner date.

at ayaw ko sa cheap restos.

ayaw ko din ng cheap gadgets.

yuck. ang ganda ko kasi ano. hahaha.

ang bitch ng post na to.

senyales ba ito ng mindset ko sa buong taon?