Ten Crazy Ways to Improve Your Writing

There are a gazillion books on how to improve your prose, but I bet you haven't seen my list before. Well it's Monday and I felt like being silly, so I thought I'd throw in a few of my favorite one-liners on how to improve your writing. I hope they bring a smile to your face, and help motivate you to not only write good well, but to enjoy life.

Ten  Crazy ways to improve your writing:

1. Talk to strangers
2. Travel more.
3. Do something that you've always been afraid of. 
4. Ask for forgiveness when you don't feel like it. Study your feelings and the receiver's response.
5. Sit in the mall and study everyone you see.
6. Go to the Library and spend an afternoon reading travel books.
7. Spend an afternoon visiting a retirement home and ask the residents to tell their story.
8. Read a chapter of your favorite book, and hand copy a few pages.
9. Walk through your town or city and study the streets and alleyways and sounds.
10. Sit in Starbucks and create character sketches of everyone who walks in!

Well I hope that was a fun list. No rules. No time constrains. Just simple and creative methods to help you understand people, visualize details, and to spark some ideas. 

Oh, and by the way, The Indie Author's Guide to the Universe is NOW available in print. In fact it is so hot off the press that the product description isn't posted yet. I hope you get a copy because it is so pretty and I worked really hard on the interior layout. I even used really cool boxes for you to check whenever you follow a step.

And guess what? You do not have to be an indie author to glean its wisdom. The Indie Author's Guide is for any writer, published, indie or not.


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Jeff Bennington is the author of Twisted Vengeance, Reunion, and Creepy and now...
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