Plagiarism is good!

How many half-baked stories do you have? Instead of allowing them to go to waste, rotting away on your desktop, chop them up and use them for parts! Maybe you wrote a scene that had excellent dialogue. Well, rearrange it, switch out the names, and make it fit your new story. Why not? I do this all the time. I rarely let something I’ve written go to waste. I strongly believe in reusing, rehashing, rewriting, reviving, and rearranging old material. Remember, it’s old material to you but brand new to your readers.

CALL ME! (815) 642-9687 Let’s write a book together!

Writing takes an enormous amount of discipline and focus. Oddly enough, I could use improvement in both of these areas. Thankfully, I’m not bad as I used to be.

I just finished writing a manuscript and I’m ready to start another! Due to my ‘scatterbrained-ness,’ I have to start immediately or I’ll be distracted by something else. I need your help. I have too many ideas for my next book. It would be so much easier if you guys helped me! CALL ME! Tell me what I should write! I don’t want very detailed ideas—just the basics. For example:

Character: A truck driver
Setting: small Midwest town
Plot: A truck driver will stop at nothing to prove his innocence in a murder case.

At the end of this month, I’ll post the top ideas I receive. You guys can decide which one I should use. Okay?

*Remember* I want a challenge. Be as outrageous and imaginative as you want! I will be posting my progress and even including video footage, so keep checking back. (What better way to see how to finish your book than to watch a scatterbrained writer do it?)

What's the worse thing you've written?

I recently read a short story I wrote in elementary school. Back then, I thought it was excellent. Now I can't help but laugh. It was horrible! If I were to rewrite it today, it would be so much better. When you're in a writing funk or experiencing writer's block, try this:

Find your worse piece of writing (if you haven't trashed it). If you did trash it, find someone else’s work. Now think of ways you could improve it. What would you change? What sentences would you rearrange? What would you delete? Try rewriting a paragraph or two. This might get your creativity flowing with your current work.