Both the practical advice of having a swipe file and the more general encouragement are very valuable.

Thanks for stopping by.

In describing the weather in a novel an author can’t just make up what rain is. He has to describe what would actually be going on outside the window during a storm, even if he puts it into his own words. If a character is happy or miserable, an author would need to draw on his own feelings to describe his character’s emotions accurately.

The fact that you’re writing so often turns you into a writer and my advice to you would be to file away everything you do. Open a folder for “feelings” or “weather” or “landscapes” and keep your writing in the different sections. Therefore, when you come to write a fiction scene that involves the description of a busy street, you have an accurate one on hand to copy across. I put regular writing prompts on my blog if you want to check them out.

Writing every day puts you miles ahead of a lot of the wannabes out there. So keep going and see what happens. Good Luck

Elaine Saunders
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