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The importance of your writing sorroundings

You are lying down on your bed with your computer on your lap. Perfectly comfortable. The perfect scenario. The ideas start flowing as your fingers write like two fast machines. Everything is going wonderful. Until suddenly you feel lazy. You have slept only 6 hours, and you went training in the morning, so Morfeus is knocking on your door. You fight against it, and try to keep your eyes open, but it seems unlikely you will make it. The ideas begin to fade away. And you surrender to the arms of the darkness.

One hour later you wake up. You look at your computer and you have only written 3 lines. “How I could be so careless!” You think... But it is time to catch up. Suddenly the phone rings and is your boss asking for help - you know, those wonderful calls at midnight, when everything is urgent. "Maybe tomorrow I can continue", you whisper to yourself. And so on... Days passes by and writing your story gets… e t e r n a l. And it keeps happening day after day after day, but this time not your boss, but a friend,... or your mom, or your dog, or you get hungry. And if you don’t get hungry, you start ,multitasking, etc. Even though you have all the tools to start writing, if the environment isn't for you, the right writing is not going to happen.

We, as authors, are totally aware that there is not a "perfect" environment, because that depends on each individual and the ways he or she feels about one place or the surroundings. But, we can unravel some little details that can make the place that you choose to write, a more suitable one.


The good thing about writing is that you can do it wherever you want. So choose a place that likes you the most. The one that inspires you and put your imagination into motion. We all have some ideal places that we love and fulfill us just by being there, so choose one wisely:. It can be the beach, the park, the library, a cafeteria, your home, anyplace! Just pick one and go. You'll feel the magic.


Nowadays thanks to the internet, we can do many things at the same time. We can check our emails while we are working, while we are having fun in Facebook, while we are reading the newspaper, or while we are watching a video. If you are focused on writing, multitasking becomes zero productivity. So if you are going to write in a computer, it’s better to close all the windows, and just write. Write is all you need. Don’t waste it. In Inkspired we are aware of this, by the way, and we are working on the right tool to get you focused on writing smarter; it’s called Inkspired Writer, you can check it out at https://www.getinkspired.com/writer


The mobile phone is a deadly weapon. It can distract us too much. Even when you think it’s just for a few seconds, those few seconds turn into long minutes, and those long minutes then turn into concentration failure. So even if it hurts, stay away from your phone for a while. You will remain alive. ;)

Resultado de imagen de no cellphone


Even if it doesn’t seem important, the weather is crucial. A study by Zwebner, Lee and Goldenberg (2014) proved that warm temperature increases product valuation. So our recommendation is that if you are going to write outdoors, do it in a warm environment.


If you don’t want to lose time, the best thing you can do is to have everything you will possibly at your reach. The closer the better - the idea is to stop you from having to stand up and get those things near during your writing: Water, tea, coffee, healthy snacks, etc, all that stuff.


Stay away from those places that make you fall asleep, or the ones that makes you want to run away immediately. Once you find one that suits you, change it every once in a while, because changes always allow your mind to open a little bit more, and it sparks creativity and inspiration.

27 de Janeiro de 2017 às 16:25 0 Denunciar Insira 2

Getting started as a creative writer

It's writing o'clock. Your day gets better because you are going to tell your story. Writing is your passion so you want to make the most out of it. But first you need to take some things into account. Well yes, to become a writer you need to write, right. But you also need other factors that influence your work like… deciding to follow all the right advices about focus and prevent get blocked by distractions.

So, let’s start from scratch. Remember the first thing a writer need is inspiration. What inspires you the most? What turns your soul on fire? What do you want to talk about, but you don’t know how? If you don’t have a clue, then start writing ideas, words, examples, anything. Think about your passions. Those tiny things that moves you. Your past. Or someone else’s story. An amazing travel story you had back then when you were backpacking around south east asia. It’s important that you know the “what”: what are you going to write about; but also the Why. A writer without inspiration and direction is just a writer writing about banal things, not a creative writer.

After a few hours of brainstorming, or reading, or writing down some ideas, you finally got it. You found the subject that makes you feel like you can write about it forever. So the next step is getting the style you would like to use. There are many ways of getting an style… but my deepest recommendation is that you should READ, and read a lot. Read the most you can. Specially fiction. People say reading improves your writing, and it’s eternally true. Not just because you become aware of grammar mistakes and new vocabulary, but also because the more you read the faster you find your style, and the faster you discover new ways of telling the same things in many different ways with different words. Getting to know other writers personalities through their stories, make you identify yourself with yours.

Now you have the style, so we move to the tone... It’s the moment to unleash the inner creative writer within you. Let the power of your imagination flow and don’t let that inspiration goes away. You need constancy. And if suddenly you get stuck, don’t get frustrated. Stop, breath and continue the next day. Don’t resist it. Don’t hold it back. Most of our obstacles are in our mind, and we are the ones preventing ourselves to keep going forward. Inspiration isn’t something that just disappears. Sometimes it can get blocked, but when is real, it prevails through time and space: after all, great stories, great novels are not written in a single day.

20 de Janeiro de 2017 às 18:31 0 Denunciar Insira 0

A writer’s greatest fear

It’s Monday morning. You sit down on your comfortable chair and turn on the computer. Suddenly the fear starts to run through your spine. You find yourself in front of an empty and eternal white page… A page that seems to have no end. The ideas that seemed to be on your mind are now gone. You don’t know how to start. Maybe you know what you want to write about, but you have no idea of how to kickstart it.

Time begins to run. Seconds turns into minutes, and minutes turns into hours. And you decide to close the computer and surrender. And when you are about to sleep you get the feeling that you’re not a good writer. That writing is not your thing. So you quit. And the talent goes away with the day.

This sounds familiar? Well, this is one of a writer’s greatest mistakes. And we are not talking about the white page; we are talking about the quitting. The most challenging thing a writer will always confront is an empty page. So our advice is: Don’t get frustrated. The thing that you don’t know is that fear is normal. And one key to unlock that frustration is to write. Yes, ALL YOU NEED IS WRITING, as Stephen King and others famous writer have told.

At the beginning, it doesn’t matter how you start. Don’t feel pressured just because people tell you that the beginning is one of the most important parts. Yes, maybe it is, but when you are in the initial steps of becoming a writer, you first need to break the ice with the empty page. The fear itself would never be gone, but you will learn to handle it more with time. So sit down, turn on your computer, and start writing the first thing that comes to your mind. Perhaps using a “writing prompt” will help you; just bear in mind that a writer’s major creativity spark comes from constraints: and even in the infamous writer’s block you can find inspiration.

Once you start, everything becomes easier, the ideas will start flowing by themselves. And maybe on the middle of your writing you can allow yourself to change the beginning. Sometimes we just need to know the end, to go back to the beginning. And the other key is to think and let your personality express that thinking into words. Do not hesitate about the words you use. Write the ones that identify you; fall in love with them and leave the editing for later. Let the talent make its own role. The more you write, the better writer you will become.

18 de Janeiro de 2017 às 15:38 0 Denunciar Insira 3

10 writing tips from Ray Bradbury

It’s not just tips to gain knowledge from the master. It is a memory of the passed experience and a lifestyle of one of the greatest writers in the twentieth century. In this article you will find Ray Bradbury’s writing advices (how to become a writer) from his speech in 2001 on Writer’s Symposium.

Don’t start out writing novels. They take too much of your time. Begin your writing life instead by publishing“a hell of a lot of short stories,” as many as one per week. The more, the better. Take a year to do it; he claims that it simply isn’t possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. Bradbury worked in such pace until the age of 30 to write his first novel, «Fahrenheit 451».

You may love them, but you can’t be them. Bear that in mind when you inevitably attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to imitate your favorite writers. Young Bradbury idols were such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and L. Frank Baum.

Examine “quality” short stories. Bradbury studied the works of several authors as Roald Dahl, Guy de Maupassant, and the lesser-known Nigel Kneale and John Collier. Anything in the New Yorker today doesn’t make his cut, since he finds that their stories have “no metaphor.”

Don't stuff your head. To accumulate the intellectual building blocks of these metaphors, he suggests a course of bedtime reading: one short story, one poem (Pope, Shakespeare, and Frost, not modern “crap”), and one essay. These essays should come from a diversity of fields, including archaeology, zoology, biology, philosophy, politics, and literature. “At the end of a thousand nights,” so he sums it up, “Jesus, you’ll be full of stuff!”

Get rid of friends who don’t believe in you. Do they make fun of your writerly ambitions? Don't hesitate and “fire them” if needed.

«Write with joy. Writing is not a serious business. If a story starts to feel like work, scrap it and start one that doesn’t. I want you to envy me my joy.»

Don’t plan on making money. Bradbury's wife, took a vow of poverty. Their first car a couple could afford after 10 years of marriage, and he still never got around to picking up a driving license.

List of 20 things, that you love and hate. Then write 10 stories about things you like, and “kill” the black ten — also by writing about them. Do the same with your fears.

Just type any old thing that comes into your head. To break down any creative blockages will help a “word association”, since “you don’t know what’s in you until you test it.”

Remember, you are wrinting to one person only that will come up and tell you, “I love you for what you are doing.” If you can't achieve it then you are writing for someone to come up and tell you, “You are not that nuts like people say.”

6 de Dezembro de 2016 às 00:00 1 Denunciar Insira 3
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