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Stress-Free Creative Writing

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I’m talking about writing again today. Stress-free creative writing.

I’m going to give you some steps to be able to do some stress-free creative writing. Basically, I’m going to talk about three different areas.

Brainstorm

First step.
First step.

The first one is to brainstorm. You’re just going to come up with a list of ideas that you want to write about. As you’re making that list of ideas, just write wildly; nothing is too outrageous, because you will be able to choose what is on your list. Once you’ve done that, then choose some ideas from your list that you want to write about.

Statements, Questions, and Headlines

The second area I want to talk about is how to work with those ideas.

So first of all, take your ideas and turn them into statements, questions, or headlines.

Make a list of questions
Make a list of questions

Questions

Once you have those written down, to the right of your statement, question, or headline, write down a question word: Who, what, when, where, why, how, or what then. Now if you had already written a question then you don’t want to put another question after it.

Key Words or Phrases

Write down some key words or phrases that describe the answer to that question. They can be nouns or verbs, or strong words like that. They can be sensory words like what you see or elicit what you think the smell would be like or what you would hear but some strong keywords.

So once you have done that, you have a page that has sort of an outline. You have a list of questions, statements, or headlines followed by a question word unless your original statement or idea is a question. Then you have three suggested answers to that question.

Once you have your ideas set up in that fashion, then you are ready to go for stress-free creative writing.

Fast Writing

What makes it stress-free is you’ve already come up with the basis of your ideas So now the next part and the magic of doing that is to do fast writing.

Do some fast writing
Do some fast writing

Read your first question or statement with a question following it. Pick one of those key words or key phrases and start writing just as fast as you can. I find it good to set a timer and write just as fast and furiously as I can until that timer goes off. A good time to set your timer is five minutes. Write as quickly as you can for five minutes.

If that doesn’t give you about 250 words, depending on how fast you can type, then you may want to set it for six minutes or somewhere all the way up to 10 minutes. Just write as fast as you can.

There it is: stress-free creative writing.
✔Brainstorm without agonizing over what you’re writing down in your brainstorming.
✔Make it better by picking just the words and ideas that you want to write about.
✔Put a question word after those ideas
✔Write down three things that would trigger your writing or the answer to the questions.
✔Set your timer and write just as fast as you can.

In a future post, I’ll talk about the editing process. So it is stress-free knowing that the editing comes later.

Highly recommended reading
Highly recommended reading

I hope this has been helpful to you. If you would like more tips like these, I have written a book that outlines in more detail how this process works. It’s called “How to Write a Book in 28 Days or Less Without Stressing Yourself to Death” and is available on Amazon. There is both a hard copy and a Kindle version. I would highly recommend that you get that.

Also, if you’d like more writing tips like these, you can go to randycarney.com.

Remember: YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK!

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Creative Nonfiction Writing Examples

Hello everyone. Today we’re talking about writing, and the topic is “creative nonfiction writing examples.”

A little while back I did some study in copy writing. It was the sort that you do for sales letters and things like that. One of the things that they advised us to do was to find a good sales letter and then copy it by hand. I’m not asking you to complete things by hand, but I do have some resources for you today. I’m going to give you six places to find creative nonfiction writing examples.

One of the places that I found was “100 Major Works of Creative Nonfiction“.

Another one with a very similar title is “108 Nonfiction Writing Prompts“.

Here’s one from Tom Corson-Knowles. If you’re not familiar with Tom Corson-Knowles, I’ll give him a little plug. I studied his writing and read some of his books. Actually, when I did my first book on marriage as an e-book it became a bestseller. I had read some of Tom Corson-Knowles’ writing and I found it to be very helpful. That website is TCKPublishing.com. This article is apparently a guest article because it’s written by Kaylen Barron. The title of the article is “What is Creative Nonfiction? Definitions, Common Examples, and Guidelines”.

So far, that’s three. Another is “25 Creative Writing Examples to Inspire You Today“.

There’s also a magazine you might be interested in Creative Nonfiction Magazine.

Now, for the finale: Drum roll! Here it comes! Here’s an example of creative nonfiction writing. As I mentioned previously, we’re only about a month away from the launch of my new book “How to Write a Book in 28 Days or Less Without Stressing Yourself to Death”. That would be a good example of nonfiction writing.

When we talk about creative nonfiction writing. Sometimes we can use narrative elements to illustrate the main points of what we’re talking about. So in this book, I give some examples and true stories from my own life that illustrate some of the things that are in the book. The stories are narrative. So, even though they’re nonfiction, not fiction, they are stories, much like fiction stories.

You also can borrow things from fiction when you’re writing nonfiction, to use as good illustrations of what you’re talking about.

You can find more writing tips here.

Be sure to keep updated with me as the launch date for my book draws closer. Look for it soon.

Keep writing,

Randy