So, when starting your own fiction writing, you might often feel 'trapped' because you can't avoid the thought of 'I wanna be as good as Stephen King' etc, etc, etc. This kind of thought might lead you into a situation whereby you have a need to 'borrow' a plot, instead of creating your own plot. These borrowings come to us unconsciously. They sneak upon us, and if we keep on satisfying the temptation to borrow them and force them on our own writing, then our writing will suffer.
Only one source is available for the material of your writing: your own experience. Begin every plot by thinking: 'I remember'. Begin this sentence even before you put your character or plot into the paper. Use your imagination, call your early life. Then start to write based on the account of an incident from your early life.
Your stories are inside you, stop looking outside. I didn't mean to turn your fiction writings into an autobiography, though. All I am saying is that your experience has shown a pure approach, a fair beginning to a creation of a fiction by an exploration of the earlier life of the writer.
Only one source is available for the material of your writing: your own experience. Begin every plot by thinking: 'I remember'. Begin this sentence even before you put your character or plot into the paper. Use your imagination, call your early life. Then start to write based on the account of an incident from your early life.
Your stories are inside you, stop looking outside. I didn't mean to turn your fiction writings into an autobiography, though. All I am saying is that your experience has shown a pure approach, a fair beginning to a creation of a fiction by an exploration of the earlier life of the writer.
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