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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 439196"><p>JK started out writing about a boy on napkins at the coffee shop, a broke single mom on welfare writing down a story for her kid.</p><p></p><p>Where do you start? Anywhere. You can add, remove, re-arrange later. Sweat those details further along in the process. </p><p>The best way to write? Write what you know. You hear it over again and again in writing classes, and that's because it works. Pick up some memoir books and see how they're written - how they're the same, and how they're different to each other. Then find your voice - you know your life, you're the expert on it.</p><p>Some people can only stare at that blank page, but once they get started it just rolls out of them. If you need to, start by writing about something else. Find a basic sentence and make your own ending. Or just think of it as one really long series of posts here about your life (thread = book, posts = chapters).</p><p>If you want I'll send you a list of links that might help and drag you into a writing group on FB. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 439196"] JK started out writing about a boy on napkins at the coffee shop, a broke single mom on welfare writing down a story for her kid. Where do you start? Anywhere. You can add, remove, re-arrange later. Sweat those details further along in the process. The best way to write? Write what you know. You hear it over again and again in writing classes, and that's because it works. Pick up some memoir books and see how they're written - how they're the same, and how they're different to each other. Then find your voice - you know your life, you're the expert on it. Some people can only stare at that blank page, but once they get started it just rolls out of them. If you need to, start by writing about something else. Find a basic sentence and make your own ending. Or just think of it as one really long series of posts here about your life (thread = book, posts = chapters). If you want I'll send you a list of links that might help and drag you into a writing group on FB. ;) [/QUOTE]
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