How to beat Writer’s Block? Habits

• Writing requires Consistency.
• As for most skills this Consistency is acquired through the practice of tasks.
• Tasks which would become habits.
• Which habits allow you to become consistent faster?

Summary – 4 steps to consistent writing

1. Fix yourself a page & time objective according to your availability.
   • For example 5 pages in 60′ or 2–3 pages in 30′.
2. While writing focus on acquiring these 5 skills :
   • How to Improvise Dialogues.
   • How to Display Relationships.
   • How to Convey an Atmosphere.
   • How to Display Consequences.
   • How to Write an Ending & Opening.
3. If you’re not sure where to Start, begin with the End of a Story as it gives you a clear trajectory.
4. Share your work & ask for detailed Feedback.

Write to Learn

• What should you learn about?
• You need to have the Essential Information your Characters have.
• What could it be?
• What’s your Character’s Role?
• What’s your Character’s Function?
• What’s your Character’s Profession?
• What’s your Character’s Passion?
• What’s your Character’s Goal?
• Anything you estimate being necessary becomes necessary.
• If you are inclined to tell a Tale rather than mimic Reality you’ll have less constrains.
• What matters is that you Expend your Intelligence.
• This is the End goal of Writing.

• Diverse Knowledge to create Diverse Worlds
• What do you know about Finance?
• What do you know about Economy?
• What do you know about Governance?
• What do you want to know about them?
• What do you need to know in order to create a Believable Culture?
• Do you want to Learn about Biology?
• Do you want to know about Quantum Physics?
• Or maybe Artificial Intelligence?
• Create a Character that’s interested in them.
• Create an Organization.
• The more your Characters learn, the more you do.

What are the Foremost skills of Writing?

1. How to Improvise Dialogues.
2. How to Display Relationships through Dialogue.
3. How to Convey Character through Dialogue.
4. How to Convey Character through Description.
5. How to Convey an Atmosphere through Description.
6. How to Create Teams.
7. How to Ensure Consistency.
8. How to Display Consequences.
9. How to Write an Ending.
10. How to Write an Opening.

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Templates

• A Relationship Map
• 4, 8, 12, 16?
• How many Characters are there in your Story?
• How do they Relate to each other?
• What’s their Goal?
• What’s their Role?
• What are their Strengths?
• What are their Weaknesses?
• What are their Quirks?
• Why do they create Alliances?
• Why do they oppose each other?
• What create Conflicts?
• Do they threaten each other?
• Do they care for each other?
• Do they know each other?
• Are they indifferent?

• A World Map
• Where is your World situated?
• What are its Defining features?
• What are the core Locations?
• Why are they crucial?
• What happens in these Locations?
• Who frequents them?
• Who needs them?
• Who defends them?
• Why do your Characters need to access these Locations?
• How can they access these Locations?
• Is the map easy to ready?
• Is there a Center?
• Are there multiple Centers?
• Are the Roads easy to read?
• Is the Transportation web apparent?

• A 10-Chapters Plan
• How does the Story End?
• How does it begin?
• How do you write the Opening scene?
• How many potential Introductions do you have?
• Which Events occur in this Story?
• Do you have Crisis Scenes?
• Do you have Discovery Scenes?
• Do you have Investigation Scenes?
• Do you have Rest Scenes?
• Do you have Ponder Scenes?
• How do the Characters react in each Scene?
• How do they interact?
• How does it affect their Relationships?

Rewarding Behaviors that are Hard to develop

At some point you’ll want to write with a Team.
This Team will allow you to go further.

Notice that even if you Write, Edit, Illustrate, Compose & Program alone, you always have a team : The Public.

• Patience
• Can you go Slower?
• How can you Explain?
• How can you Entice?
• How can you Share your Enthusiasm?
• How can you Share your Knowledge?
• How can you Turn this Knowledge in Intelligence?
• How is your Patience tested?
• What effects does it have on your Results?
• What effects does it have on your Products?
• Which issues can it create?

• Focus
• How do you show your Dedication?
• How do you become more Centred?
• How can we be Clearer?
• How can we be Simpler?
• Is there a Simpler solution?
• How do we implement it?
• Which resources should we Allocate to the Story?
• How can we Expand the Story together?
• What should you Prioritize?
• By what are you Bound?
• What are the essential rules of this Story?

• Flexibility
• What are we doing?
• How do we define it?
• What are the Alternatives?
• Are there Better Options?
• What is the Best Option?
• Are there even Better Options?
• How do we install Coherence?
• Can we Change the Genre of the Story?
• Can we Change the Frame of the Story?
• How does it benefit the Story?
• How does it create more depths?

• Decisiveness
• What are our Necessities?
• What can we step away from?
• What would hinder the Story?
• How do we instil a sense of Progressiveness?
• What are we Managing?
• How do we create Automatisms?
• How can you Guide your Team?
• How can you Guide the Public?
• How can you Guide your Characters?
• How do we instil a sense of Balance?
• How do we ensure everyone is willing to make the Story grow?
• How can you go beyond this Story together?

Challenges

• What can you Accomplish this Year?
• Can you create a New World?
• Can you create New Species?
• Can you create New Organizations?
• Can you create New Storylines?
• Can you create a New Trilogy?
• Can you create a New Saga?
• How many books can you write this year?
• What about A trilogy of 200-pages books?

• What can you Accomplish this Month?
• Do you want to plan New Books?
• Can you write a 30 pages story?
• Can you write a page everyday?
• Should you create new templates?
• Can you improve your existing templates?
• Can you design a New Game?

• What can you Accomplish this Week?
• Do you want create a New Character?
• Which kind of Character?
• What will bring to you?
• Do you want create a New Setting?
• Which kind of Setting?
• What’s its Function?
• What’s its Role?
• Do you want to write a Short Story?