How to Bring Order to Your Writing - WritersLife.org

How to Bring Order to Your Writing - WritersLife.org   Grab your free writer's toolkit by going to http://www.writerslife.org/toolkit  Where to follow and listen to WritersLife.org:    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writerslifeorg/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writerslife.org/     Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/writerslifeorg    Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/writerslifeorg/    Google +: http://www.WritersLife.org/googleplus     Website: http://www.WritersLife.org   Products: http://www.WritersLife.org/shop    Podcast: http://writerslife.org/podcast    Join Our Team: http://writerslife.org/contribute/    Advertise your book and.or writing  https://www.facebook.com/WritersLifeAdvertisingPlatform/?ref=br_rs   Thank you for listening Please Share it. We LOVE to read comments so please leave a comment and subscribe to Our channel:  https://www.youtube.com/writerslifeorg Grab your free writer's toolkit by going to  http://www.writerslife.org/finish-your-book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello it's Peter here again from Writer's life and today tips on how to bring order to your writing writing is often a chaotic and messy process often we have so many ideas that we end up drowning in a pile of half written sentences scraps of paper a middle-of-the-night thought so we have sleepily scribbled on a book cover and now only partially makes sense so how do you create order from the chaos collating all your bits and pieces of ideas can be tricky but if you can find a system that works for you so weed out all your creative flotsam and jetsam you will find it so much easier to pick out the great ideas from the nonsense and hopefully then begin to turn them into a brilliant piece of work here then are some great tips to help you bring order to your writing first create a space filled chaos chaos book works really well for this it could be a notice board where you can stick up all your scraps of paper sticky notes or whatever else you've used to scribble on or a black board or just stick some large sheets of paper up on your wall use this to capture your writing ideas develop characters or note down observations sentences or words which you might want to use in your writing at a later date having all these in one place and a place where you can see them all together at a glance will help you order them together spend some time moving them around and see what relates to what or which ideas you can pull together and expand on and next free write often when trying to make sense of an idea it can be a tough task trying to put pen to paper and phrasing exactly as you would like free writing is a great way to simply let go and let your imagination run wild to do this sit down and start writing write whatever comes into your head and don't stop if you can't think of something to write simply keep repeating the last word over and over and to the yeah going again free writing is simply about getting as used to writing without that unhelpful in a critique looming over us look back over your free writing once a week and pick out anything useful from the stream of consciousness you'll be amazed and how many little gems you'll find next draft redraft and then redraft again your first draft is never going to be your final piece no matter how good you think it is writing is a craft and it takes practice to perfect it you should always let yourself write freely at first then leave it for at least a day or two before you look at it again bringing order to your writing is all about letting yourself go and then reining yourself back in sentence by sentence the pause here is important if you spend hours on end fretting over your work trying to perfect it putting sentences here and there and changing bits of the story there you could end up making it into more of a mess always allow yourself time to reflect before you go back to your story a fresh mindset will help you look at it objectively and clearly see what works and what doesn't writing chaotically is part of the fun of being a writer letting your imagination run wild and allowing yourself be in a place where anything goes can potentially be very therapeutic however one of the most rewarding times is when sit down and work through the chaos when you find those ideas that excite you that give you that little spark that nervous flutter that makes you think you may just be on to something really good and don't forget if he's struggling to write or finish your book try our free writers toolkit with it you'll learn how to overcome procrastination get organized stay focused find time to write and finally get your book published to get your copy now while it's still available simply go to http://www.writerslife.org/toolkit and that's it for now be   sure to give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more and I'll see you next time