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Briskwriter.com !!!

I finally got a regular website to start blogging and writing on! I invite you to join me at briskwriter.com

The website is a little rough because it’s just been launched and is still in the works but it’s fully functions for you guys to browse and use.

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Written Into Existence

It’s really interesting how us writers function. We all seem to be able to relate to each other, yet many times we have backrounds that are nowhere close to relatable. An example is, I’ve met professional writers that are extrememly social, and I’ve met some writer’s that I wouldn’t be surprised if I was the first real person that they had seen in a week. The huge differences in our backrounds is amazing. What’s even more cool is that some of us seem to just write ourselves into existence. When I first started writing, I wrote just to try it out. I wrote for hours everyday for a about a month. I learned to enjoy writing, but I didn’t achieve anything. I stopped the writing and focused my time in other places. Two years later that changed. I wrote to exist. At the time I was struggling with many different issues, and instead of falling to despair, I started writing again. With a blackened heart, I wrote everyday, instead of dwelling on whatever troubles I had to deal with at the time. I wrote simply because I wanted to exist somewhere outside my troubled mind. And it worked. When I wrote my first book it was only about twenty pages long. It was boring, and riddled with errors but I didn’t care. I figured that I at least exist somewhere. Then I started this blog. “I’ll write what I have to say” I thought to myself. And I didn’t think that anyone would read it. As I wrote I got ten people to read my blog, and my mind was blown (nevermind two of the people I specifically asked to read it). So I decided to keep writing. I wrote and I wrote hoping that I would matter to someone, somewhere. But sadly it wasn’t paying off anymore. I was lucky to get a single reader whenever I posted. I wrote what was in my heart, but my emotions didn’t seem to matter. I wrote what I thought people wanted to hear, but apparently they didn’t want to hear it. I was depressed because of it. I tried to figure out how I was supposed to exist again, then I remembered something. I remembered that most people don’t only exist in writing. So I started applying my writing to every other part of my life. I wrote for family, I wrote to teach, I wrote for friends, and I continued writing for my blog. And when I had written all of those things, I had officially written myself into existence. My small following of readers expanded slowly everyday, until I had readers from across the globe. In the end I learned a major lesson, it doesn’t matter what you write. Writers are a breed all on their own. They’re almost like powerful psychics, because they put their thoughts down on paper, which in turn enters the mind of everyone that can read. It isn’t easy to write a novel, a popular blog, or even express your personal thoughts, but worthwhile things aren’t often easy. No matter what you write, it makes a difference and adds to your life. I highly suggest that you add your own writings anywhere you can. It really helps. And to those who already have been writing on their blogs, you exist to me and inspire me.

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One Poem This Year

I challenged many of you guys to write a poem for everyday of the year in my “50 goals and ideas for writers" post. To both show you that I’m not a hypocrite and share some of my ,random, unknown writings, I thought that I would share a poem that I’ve written for that very goal: Turned I will have peace and love overflowing. I will see the power pouring from my soul. From my heart, light will flow from my body, And each broken piece of me will be a whole. My arms shall turn into diamonds, And my heart, soft golden stone And the dirt concealing my spirit Will never again be shone.

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Your dream shouldn't end when you wake up, it should just continue on paper.

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If you think I'm sarcastic than get a load of the character I created!

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Mwahahaha

We all know that there is a dark side just waiting to conquer. I love writing a story where the enemy is overpowered and undefeatable. I write it so he has no flaws, unlimited resources and a great sense of humor. I love it when I succeed and the hero fails.

Sadly, the hero manages to succeed sometimes and a big dramatic, action filled story emerges from the bushes, but I'm still rooting for the bad guy until the hero steps up his game.

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Just a Short Reminder...

I just wanted to remind everyone that I have the same blog on briskwriter.blogspot.com for your guys’ convenience! There is a small difference between the blogs though.

The Tumblr Blog has short snippets, quotes and pictures that the blogspot doesn’t.

I sometimes will give an early post, and there’s a possibility of merchandise (in the future) on the blogspot version.

So Stay tuned on both blogs! Feel free to like, share, and follow!

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Writing Faster With “Brisk Words”

If you need to write a first draft really fast for some reason, don’t be afraid to use what I would like to call Brisk Words. They are small nonsense words that replace larger words or names. They’re markers or stand-ins so you can type as quickly as possible.

An example of this is how I type “without”. whenever I come to a place where I want to type “without” I type “wot” instead. Those three letters hardly appear in other words so I can type it quickly and use find to highlight and change all of the “wot”s into “without”s instantly.

If I don’t have a character name yet I make up a nonsense word using a characteristic of the character. I.E. a main character may be named mainy, a council member may be named thinkstaff, or a love interest might be named hottygrl. I replace all the fake names instantly when I edit at the end.

When I use brisk words I can increase my original typing speed by at least ten words per minute (The specific speeds I recorded were 55-58, which increased to 65-72). That may not seem like a major difference, but if your slammed for time it makes all the difference.