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Write about two characters who trip over each other and fall in love inexplicably. Are they opposites? Do they start out enemies? Do they meet under unexpected circumstances: in a hospital, during a public tragedy, in the courtroom? How will you transform negative tension into romantic tension? And how will your characters make up their minds about each other?
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
What I learned from veteran writers at a panel on essays.
Forming a poetry group will help you improve your writing, stay accountable, and build a foundation of mutual support.
