Generation, Revision of work & Fighting Writer’s Block
Learning Objectives
- Participants would learn how to generate story-telling ideas and self-edit/self-critique their own work.
- Learn tricks that help fight/evade writer’s block.
Generation, Revision of work & Fighting Writer’s Block
Tutor: Tj Benson
Loveable lessons especially on idea generation
Lessons{How to generate ideas: be spontaneous/ In editing-avoid long sentences and repetition/To fight writer’s block; read more and travel more.}
Now i know. I can start smelling story ideas.
This makes us very happy indeed!
Key takeaways. HOW TO GENERATE IDEAS
1) Outward ideas
2) Inwards ideas
Learnt a lot.
Delighted to get this feedback, Dorcas. Let’s work together to mainstream these ideas and change our dear Africa for development and for good.
Wow, with this insightful lesson, I can’t wait to develop my own story.
And we cant wait to read it!
Writer’s Block!
🙁 !
This lesson about generating ideas and overcoming writers block is very important to me. I hope that I will be able to put it into practice and develop and complete compelling stories that can transform our society
The tips on how to overcome writers block are invaluable. Sometimes situations within ourselves or in our surroundings affect our creative processes and the ability to make sense out of it. It is important that we stop for a while and do something else that will give us inspiration and stimulate back our thought processes. Kudos.
This comment makes us very happy!
What I normally do to generate ideas is something I learned from Shonda Rhimes.
Pick a 24hr news channel of your choice as a writer, and follow the kind of stories generated on that news channel. It can give powerful insight into the kind of stories you want to create.
Al-Jazeera is a good example, especially their documentaries like Witness/Al-Jazeera World, and such stories can inspire more writers to create their own unique stories, while also retaining believability in the process because yes, the audience/readers are always smarter than you think.
This is a very, very nice story generation idea, Haroun Risa. Thank you for sharing it with the cohort. It is definitely refreshing and is likely to be very useful.
This is a cool idea. Very useful advice.
a real fight in every writers life
The thought if gravelling can open a writers block is new to me didn’t know it but I also think another way us finding a new source of inspiration either listening to music or doing some activity like swimming .
My thoughts on revision of work is pretty simple just reviewing and asking someone you know to read through it and tell you their thoughts so you get a readers perspective .
On generating ideas the best way to actualize it is actually writing it down since all ideas start from a single thought process.
Thanks for the knowledge so far Sir. See you in the next module 👌 👍
very insightful. I especially liked the part of writers block, try something new, maybe a new meal,the story may take a turn and not end as you expected, revisit the work after sometime.Thank alot Tj
Almost every time we keep getting to that stage of our writing where one feels that the missing link in our writing is a stolen element of a jigsaw puzzle. I love the insights you provide on the same.
Delighted to hear this has proven useful.
Open your mind to the possibility the story want to do something else. Thanks for this. I
Look for people who connect to your work and listen to their review.
Building communities is the key, yes.