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Ten Ways to Get Writing

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Ten Ways to Get Writing by Hazel Gaynor

1. Turn off Facebook and Twitter.

2.

Go to your favourite coffee shop

3. 

Turn off the laptop. Free write in a notebook

4. 

Write out of synch.

5. 

Interview your main characters or write a bio for them.

6.

Give yourself small goals and rewards.

7. 

Ask someone to read your work and give you their honest opinion.

8. 

Read. Read novels in your genre. Read novels outside your genre.

9. 

Tell everyone you are writing a novel.

10. 

Keep writing.

Ten Ways to Get Writing

Chantel DaCosta is a storyteller, editor and lifestyle blogger. She is passionate about mental health awareness and Jamaican women's own-voices stories.

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