Bird by Bird 8

Someone to read your drafts

 Writing makes you feel lost and getting things wrong. Someone else who reads your writing will figure out the problem. It doesn’t have to be a stranger to read your draft. It isn’t easy when someone criticizes your writing, but know they’re doing it to help, not to be mean. When picking who you want to read and give your writing some advice make sure you trust them doing the task. Her students asked the question about what if you do find a possible writing partner and that person’s responses turn out to be mean and negative? She responded with move on because you want someone to be honest but gentle. Make sure they encourage you to write.

Effect on Writing

Find the right person to read your drafts. The person needs to give make advice, but in a nice way that won’t make you feel bad about yourself. You don’t want them to make you not want to right. I f you don’t have the correct person than find a new one.

Letters

 When writing you will get stuck. Write in the form of a letter. Pretend to write to a kid or a friend. Many of her students start with writing in a letter form. She explained her own story about her giant fandom.

Effect on writing

If you’re writing something and you get stuck just write in letter from. Most of the people who do this, it was a success for them to get unstuck.

Writers block

Writers block will happen to you. Writers block is when you have no energy and you feel little and you have no hope. She suggests two ways to solve writers block. One is acceptance and the second is to write 300 words a day. When you’re beginning as a writer, it’s important to commit to finishing things. It is comforting to hear that famous writers have problems too. We’re not really in control of our fate or our books.

Effect on writing

When you are slumped and have no hope just know every writer goes though this. Write 300 words a day and than go for a walk. Your mind needs some rest. When you start something, finish it.