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Those are all awesome suggestions. I do exactly all of those things and even started the sequel to the book I was on before I finished the first! (It's hard to write the boring parts when the exciting ones won't get out of your head!)
It's nice too to put yourself where your character is whenever possible. I wrote a book once in which the main character goes on a picnic with a guy, so I made one of my friends take me on that same picnic. I also play a lot of dress up, even though I'm 24 and probably clinically insane for doing so.
Walks are also nice. Take yourself away from the computer or notebook completely! Take a little notepad with you in case ideas tumble out. I've been known to write ideas on napkins, backs of sheet music, receipts, and my hand. The little pads are nicer.
And recently, I've been writing short unrelated pieces that appear to be one or two paragraphs from another story. I don't know if this would help anyone else, but it has helped me. They are almost like I'm writing for the back of a novel, a summary of sorts, but there is no novel. One was a break up, the other a first person alcoholic's account. Neither are even close to what I'm writing, but getting them out of my head helped.
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Mar 21 2008, 10:10 AM
