It's hard to be sparkly in your writing if you don't feel sparkly in yourself. If you're looking for inspiration or motivation to write, these tips might help you.
- Do something different!
- Go for a bus-ride to see what you can see (and smell, and touch, and hear).
- Take a walk in the daylight.
- Sit in a crowded fast-food shop to sharpen your ear to young dialogue.
- Find a tree and hug it (and describe in your notebook exactly what your senses picked up).
- Lie on your living room floor for five minutes. Ask yourself, 'what if...?'
- Take a walk in the dark.
- Read a short story.
- Spend half an hour on a noisy station concourse.
- Give yourself a break. No one can produce sparkly writing all the time!
