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Tips on: getting unstuck

Why?

A tip about an easy elven way to put meat on the bones of a story

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Read what you do not like to write

A tip about how elves change their reading to change their writing

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Where to start when you are asked to “Write a page”

A tip about the stories that come with blank pages

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Regularly search for all of the improvements

A tip about carefully tracking ALL of your accomplishments

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Help this way

A tip about banishing Writer’s & Block and looking for new ideas instead

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Stand in the shoes of the character

A tip about taking a break as the writer and taking a turn as the character

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When you are writing, consider 15 minutes a long time

A tip about “story time” (where 15 minutes is a long time)

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Run to your next idea…

A tip about boosting the brain by moving

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The carrot trick (for the brain )

A tip about getting brains to write, even when they are feeling stubborn

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Learning from each story

A tip about seeing stories as places to learn (the first in a series of tips that come from the writing of “The Waking Prince”)

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