Kaela Rachels
Oh, that one is hard. I am a little neurotic about keeping pens or scrap paper or notebooks near me because there is nothing worse than going about my day and suddenly having an idea that completely solves a problem I have beating my head against for weeks...but I'm hours away from paper and I JUST KNOW I'm going to forget it, or at least the fluidity of how it currently is.
That being said, my inspiration to write comes from life. The everyday things, the extraordinary things, the heartbreaking things, all of it. I have to get out and be a part of life to write about life, to have conversations with characters I haven't met yet.
So live life.
Also, I need to quite simply sit down and have the time and space with limited distractions to spend a couple hours just doing it. That part requires discipline and scheduling, but often the act of doing it will bring out the words.
Sometimes looking at it differently helps too. If I started writing on a computer, I'll print it and go over it the old fashioned way with a pen and write between lines and back of the page then move all that back to my computer, and go over it again on the computer. I catch editing, I catch inconsistencies in the story, wrong placement in timeline, I also seem to just write more, moving back and forth between digital and print.
That being said, my inspiration to write comes from life. The everyday things, the extraordinary things, the heartbreaking things, all of it. I have to get out and be a part of life to write about life, to have conversations with characters I haven't met yet.
So live life.
Also, I need to quite simply sit down and have the time and space with limited distractions to spend a couple hours just doing it. That part requires discipline and scheduling, but often the act of doing it will bring out the words.
Sometimes looking at it differently helps too. If I started writing on a computer, I'll print it and go over it the old fashioned way with a pen and write between lines and back of the page then move all that back to my computer, and go over it again on the computer. I catch editing, I catch inconsistencies in the story, wrong placement in timeline, I also seem to just write more, moving back and forth between digital and print.
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