Ok
My nigger. Thanks for not stealing my email. Maybe I'll make a burner one for this too. Others should too. Network in the matrix
Don't think I got full version on first post, in the cheap seats
Will you cross post to a sub on here? If not, I'll wrangle up a proton and sign up in the morning. Last read before bed. (Never had a Reddit account. Free speech was long raped and murdered by the time I started reading there, so I just lurked to kill time. On Voat, I had the same username. I'll never make another account, only this one.)
I'm going to cross post as much as I can.
Obviously, if someone gives me a writing prompt here that is about a nigger throwing fried chicken bones down an airplane toilet on a connecting flight to Atlanta, I'm probably going to write about that here, and maybe post it in slightly different language on Substack.
But I want writing prompts, and I want to write.
Give me one and I will write about it for the first real substack post.
Something you can have some real fun with, then. Could go a could different ways...
The president of the USA wants to destroy another country with nukes, because reasons. And buy destroy, we're talking absolutely gone. Nothing left, no one is alive, nothing is useable there for years. And he does... He needs a speech that will tell the people what he's done and why.
OK.
Any idea for the Nation?
Have you tried freelance writing jobs? Writing competitions? Keep in mind, failing over and over is how all writers start out.
Here's some of what I have found helpful in writing:
I. Pick your one man audience to write to.
An old friend. A long dead historical figure. Your mom. Your dad.
I found that writing letters you never send is good practice for short ideas. It's also therapeutic.
If I see a news article that activates my almonds, I write a response to the author and almost never send it.
If someone gets to me in real life, I write and never send it to them. When it comes to future dealings, I am more prepared and sharper in tactics and strategies.
Write a letter to your younger self.
I feel that having a specific target person as your audience allows you to shed a lot of extraneous ideas and focuses work flow. Pick someone who emotionally charges you and that emotion will come out in the writing. Pick someone who bores you and your writing will be boring.
II. Make a mosaic.
Dip in and out of your "universe" in a variety of styles. Focus on moments that generate succinct epiphanies, or key decisions that resulted in a great deal of fall out or change.
World War Z and Michael Crichton do a good job of dipping in and out with news articles and studies. See your own universe from different points of view.
III. Discovery writing, heavy outlining, story boarding, rewrites.
In order to create a large body of work, you will have to practice discovery writing, where you just let it flow; almost stream of consciousness. Purple prose.
However, you will need to be working from an outline and "big idea" to be able to really dive into it.
Story boarding a scene comic book style is a great way to do dialogue. Natural dialogue is one of the hardest things to pull off. Keep it minimal and storyboard all dialogue. Even if you have no artistic talent, you can do stick figures. The comic book format will force you to avoid extraneous and superfluous words.
You can even practice writing other people's comics... from Dilbert to Stonetoss. Whatever. Make it a short story. If you import these stories into your own universe, you can change characters, setting, etc, to match your own story told in your own way.
Once you've written a rough draft. Move on. Let it stew. Revisit for a rewrite at a later date.
IV. Garbage in. Garbage out.
Be selective in what you read and how you read it. Your "go to" words will change if you expose yourself to different writers and sources.
If you want to write a fantasy epic, you should be reading, highlighting and outlining J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond Feist, Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, etc.
If you want to write mystery thrillers, then that is what you should be reading.
V. Your online response is not indicative of the quality of your work.
The NWO is trying to create a mosaic of it's own and rewards those who fit their agenda. If you do not, you will not be rewarded. You can be "Right" and embraced by the Faux Right, but you cannot reveal any significant amount of truth going down that avenue. You can be "Left" and the liberal machine will embrace your art and you will get lots of likes and artificial support, but you will still make no money.
When you gain enough influence, they will make offers and you will never be allowed to write anything of your own again if you accept them.
VI. Online tools.
I use Lithium to read books, nowadays.
AI can also help write and rewrite your work.
https://www.frase.io/tools/paragraph-rewriter/
https://sites.research.google/versebyverse/
Freedom is forgotten, consigned to oblivion
Lisped in the sound of a bleeding throat;
Seemed a vast phantom in my poems;
Object now with me every note!
Pluot or other writing software and apps can help you stay organized.
VII. There is nothing new under the sun.
Okay, well maybe there is, but the chances of you turning a new leaf in the world of writing is slim.
The way to do it is to create a fusion of classics into your own life and what you know.
John Steinbeck used Old California as his backdrop and wove old metaphors into a new land.
Robert Jordan set out to write a fantasy "War & Peace" with Norse Gods and heroes portrayed as normal people.
What are the forces that guide your fate? What choices can you make to change your fate? That will be at the heart of every story; a choice hanging in the balance that changes the course of a character's future. You can also have anti-epiphanies... James Joyce's 'Eveline' is a good example of doing nothing and determining the rest of one's life.
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