What If -A Great Writer’s Block Remedey

Truthfully writing comes really easily to me. I hardly ever have writers block and I hardly run out of idea. But I think that’s just me, because my friends seem to not have this ability what so ever so I decided to write this up.

With beginning to right a book, a fiction mind you, there is always a issue. It doesn’t matter weather you like to write horror, sci-fi, action, drama or even fantasy. (Or if you weird like me, you’ll try to blend the genres in order to make something new) But the issue is, once you start writing, are you going to stay with it or is your Imagination going to clog up into this immediate writer’s block? How can you really stay focused and put your ideas in line to keep yourself f thinking of finish what you started.

Well there’s one simple phrase that can really put this all in line, to you keep going.

And that phrase if what if?

Say you want to write fantasy. Not a Lord of Rings epic or anything along those lines, but a simple modern fantasy. Maybe for children or young adult book. You don’t know how to start it or even what to write about. So just start with something simple. Start with what if? What if you found a mermaid on ishing trip, or what if you found a mermaid in your back yard swimming pool.

Let’s go with the second one. The scenario that you find a mermaid in the back yard swimming pool. This will set the back drop for your story as well as a starting point. First time period, is in the past , present or future? Then surroundings. Is it in a richy neighborhood, the suburbs, or maybe a ran down part of town? Also who is the person, who finds the mermaid? Is it a boy or girl. Is it a adult or child? With this, you can put whatever back story behind the character you want to, or no back story. It never hurts to let the reader’s mind to wonder a little bit about the character. What ever you would want to do is up to you. But the point is, this is how you spark you imagination and how to keep in moving in order to allow the story to move on. You have plenty of directions that the story can now travel in. Will it be a love story, drama, fantasy, or horror even? Also with this formula of thinking it is all on your own. You are not barrowing bits and pieces of things you seen or read else where. It is all from your head and it is truly yours.

And what if the sun doesn’t rise tomorrow? Or if you woke up in a entirely different life? All these are great ideas to get started.

It’s how I started writing What if? I would just write about something that would never happen, but if it did, how would it play out? And with that it has been fuel for me to keep writing for years.



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