Do you struggle to find a story line?

Do you struggle to find a storyline?

One of the best things I found when I wanted to write but struggled to find something to write about was find a picture to use as a reference.

Writing a story from a picture is challenging but it gives you the storyline.  And every person is able to produce a different story.

Maybe as the page continues on I can make weekly competitions to write a short story from a photo and the winner gets a shoutout plus the story on my blog!!

If you have an idea and need help with a storyline just fly me an email or a message and I will be more than happy to help you out as much as I can.

Thanks
Meli xoxo

Hey Beautiful People

Writing a book sounds so goddamn hard when you don't have anything to write about.  I don't know how many times I tried to "write a book" when I was younger.

The best thing to do is aim small.

Write a story that is 500 words.  Once you have completed that... And find it easy to write 500 words.
Write a story that is 750 words.
Then 1000 words.
And you can work your way up.

Don't stress too much either.  I have been actually writing for about 2-3 years now and I still haven't reached 2000 words :)

So my advice to you is...

#2
Start small and work your way up.  Don't expect to be able to write some amazing 500-page novel on your first go.

Thanks
Meli xoxo

My First Short Story...

Writing was always hard for me when I first started.  I couldn't write a good story if my life depended on it.  Why?  Because I was trying to write for everybody else, and not myself.  If you try and write a story for someone because they want you to, you may find it harder to write altogether. 

When I was in year 7 at high-school, writing was not my strong point... like at all...  I had never written before and I had no idea how, or why I was even writing in the first place.

Upon entering year 8, we had to write another story.  We had a few weeks to complete it and I always replied, "you can read it when it is finished" to my teacher who asked where it was... #TRUTH... I hadn't started.  Then a few days before it was due, I had a bit of a bad night (suffering from mental health is a little crazy!) and I wrote a story that gave me 100% mark.  Because I wrote for myself, from my heart.  Not from everyone else's heart.

Although I no longer have that story on paper or on my computer - the basis of it was about a young girl who confided in horses due to having an abusive father who in the end shot her off her horse (before you ask where the mother was - she died in childbirth).  At this point in my life, horses (they still are) were a big part of my life and my dad and I had gotten in a major argument.

So here is the first piece of advice I will give you...

#1
Write for you.  Because if you don't write YOUR stories, for YOU... Your stories won't end up half as good as what they could be.


Thanks for reading!
Meli xoxo