Elephant Boneyard

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/13-ways-to-make-a-freelance-living/ (write a filler for (local or not) newspapers / magazines about: memories of home military life local heroes average joe/jane spotlight professional spotlight company spotlight do gooder spotlight obscure hobby spotlight foreign country spotlight local history spotlight local urban legends local restaurant reviews / plug; recipe family fun ideas vocabulary builder (cool words to learn and how to use them) wierd word origins foreign language useful fact / phrase (spanish?) fun physiology; body works for dummies psych out - psychology facts / tips daily motivation local artists / writers / etc. famous people chamber of commerce meeting summary city council meeting summary best blog of the day young artists young writers create a caption for a cartoon real estate tips joke of the day thought of the day quote of the day politics vs. economics funny headlines there should be a law... or sho...

Writing Info John Steinbeck: 1- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. 2- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material. 3- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one. 4- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go o...