Thank you. :) You have to pour words onto that page- as Hemingway said, you have to bleed. When you write, lose control. Write about the things that make you afraid or vulnerable, the controversial scary things. Use beautiful words you may have never even known existed until you looked them up in the dictionary. Weave fantasy and reality together and use figurative language: metaphors and similes are really great tools. Make sure your writing has a point, and that the ending hits its mark. It should tie up the whole piece and it should satisfy you. Timing yourself writing at first really helps too. If you write without stopping, without crossing out, without letting your pen leave the page, for even around seven minutes you can get a good idea of what’s really in your head and put it onto paper. Take a look at Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones; she talks about things like this a lot there. Good luck. :)
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