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~detritus

I usually just go on automatic and let my fingers do the talking. I would sit, for example, at a library and have a coffee and just pull out my notebook and write away, just letting the ideas come out of my mind however ridiculous they came out. Lately, trying to write again, I still do. I could obliterate alliteration with brute perambulations and it would be fun, though nothing much meaningful would come out of it.

It helps to read, a lot. I like short stories, you can get a glimpse from many authors' styles and so to find your own voice. That's my advice, just read a lot and write a lot, and do not mind what comes out, if you have the ideas they all should eventually let themselves out. The point is to find/develop your own voice.

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~beefox wrote (thread):

sadly i find words don't come to me easily sadly, or.. they do but they don't translate to words others can understand. i have always been much more of a visual thinker and as a result i sort of have to translate between my thinking, and then english, then type those words. which can be really hard when the only word i know for something either doesn't exist or is only in another language like auslan.