I’d just like to thank everyone for their help this semester! I really enjoyed the class and reading all your stories. It was a lot of fun!
If any of you are going to keep up with writing, you can always send me work you’d like to have critiqued!
Thanks!
–Emily
Sometimes, for me, titles are harder to come up with than the actual story. I’m working on one now, and I just can’t tell if the title says what I want it to. Like, I think Drifters worked well for the story I turned in for class, because it was a basic theme throughout the story. But this new title (for a completely different piece) just doesn’t seem right (it’s The Right Decisions, if you’re wondering).
How do you guys come up with titles? And what do you do if you’re not happy with the title you have?
–Emily
Writer’s block is an ugly thing most of us will experience someday. There’s been plenty of times I’ve been plagued by a nasty bout of writer’s block, having trapped myself in a scene with nowhere to go. There are many ways I try to work around it, and there’s quite a few exercises I’ve found that help. Art is a wonderful medium that I use often. I find a photography or painting I really love and try to write a background story to whatever I see happening. Make a character and a lifestyle relevant to the art. That’s an exercise I use quite often. And sometimes I make a character I end up really enjoying and writing more about! Another exercise I’ve grown to love is making a story to a certain song. The emotions and lyrics in a song can really inspire. That counts for instrumental music, also. I think instrumental is even better for the exercise sometimes, such as one of my favorite composers named Yiruma. It’s almost more complicated, because you don’t have the words to back up what the song could mean, you just have the score.
I also draw inspiration from other literature. Writing a small exercise on a poem you read can jog some things up.
Here are some pictures I’ve used to help me get started on some exercises (:
Lately, one of the hardest things, for me, is coming up with character names. In some cases, the name just comes to me, but now I feel like I’ve just got no clue what to name my main characters!
Like other writers I know, I use babynames for a lot of my naming woes, but are there any others out there that you guys would recommend? I want to be able to come up with unique names, and not just reuse names I’ve used in other stories.
What do you guys suggest?
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