#1 Where do.. How do I?...

Welcome to 'The Writer's Eveyday guide!'

This is the FIRST EVER blog, so I hope this will be mucho helpful to anyone who reads!

Right, let's get started.

So. You want to write, yes? But what to write? Poem? Short story? Novel?

What tickles my fingers are definitely short stories. You need to KNOW exactly what you are passionate about-- when you're writing that story or that poem or that song, do you feel fulfilled, do you feel like there's been a release?

Now. With short stories.. take into account three things:

-Your main character, (protagonist)
-A very SPECIFIC plot (ex: friend breaks up with boyfriend, the boyfriend then rebounds to friend, friend finds out and kills herself. Kind of morbid, but you get the point)
-Some type of hidden moral or life lesson

Because short stories have ideally a 3,000 word limit, it's best to keep everything very specific and very refined. If you were to write a novel, everything would remain-- specificity and all but you'd have more space to expand on the 3 dimensions of your main character, or character(s) depending on the kind of novel you are writing, as well as your overall plot.

For me as a writer I love to write something that has a hidden meaning, or has an even deeper meaning. Always find that special quirk when you write-- everyone has one, it's just about discovering what is is, and working with it.

So.. get to writing!

:)