Malacast Agent here, with the first of many tips for your summer writing sessions. Summer writing is perhaps an important period for any young scholar to take up the pen. Nowadays the pen and ink are only used for certain tests and hardcopies, but I do recommend that some personal storytelling, and/or creative writing be done on pad and pen. Perhaps even an inkwell pen if you feel like sprucing up you work with calligraphy.
Mind you, that summer writing courses do exist in local colleges, and I recommend anyone with the time and patience to undertake one into their schedules. Many minds out there do not work to the potential due to the word "There is no time for me to write." Nonesense! Despite being to busy these days to even tie our shoelaces, we still have those minutes of pleasure to do what we like to do, even if it's in-between cooking, or filing in that last report. Writing for your personal love should never feel like a hardship on you, and if it does, you're not as serious about the subject matter as you wished you were. Do not fear though! I have the perfect settings and times for you to spruce up your skills, and maybe get that manuscript in the print room.
1) NIGHT TIME IS THE BEST TIME: I love writing at night, and never could get something done in the early morning hours. I just can't seem to do it; I can stay up to four in the morning typing away, with my face buried in a pillow, my hands going to work on what needs to be said. I could never get myself up early enough to get in some early-bird writing, unless I was surely pressed for time, and very hopeful, if not in love with he piece I was writing. Instead of going in that living room and irrationally searching for that comfort zone on your lazy-boy couch, why not take a nice, muscle relaxing bath, pop open a bottle of your best wine, and find the coolest, comfortable desk in the house; where not to be disturbed, to sit and write out those thoughts that have been itching at your finger tips all day. If you even want to set the atmosphere that gets you in the mood to write, toss aside your computer desktop/laptop, and write on some fine loose leaf paper near candle light, with nothing more than a subtle ambience in the background.
2) GET INTIMATE AND DEEP INTO YOUR WORDS: following up on the idea of writing out your work with a pen. It is best to feel the grooves of the imprint upon the page as you print your best incursive to fulfill your desires of writing. It is almost like making love to the page, with intervals of hard pressing, and light looping of your "l"s and "g"s. Nothing feels better than feeling your work come to life through the tip of the pen. Like a sculptor presses firmly with their knife to create works of art, you sculpt the page to show your artistic style, mending little, and wasting not a drop of ink that overflows like the wine into your glass.
3) ENJOY THE SEASON WHILE WRITING: Perhaps when I say you should shut yourself in a closet with a boxed desk and little room to breathe, that is not the best picture to paint. Yes, distractions are at time inevitable, and we do all try our best to avoid them, but that doesn't mean losing scenery! If you have a window, and you want a cool night breathe from the summer thermals transitioning into those cool summer air pockets we all love since our first, then go ahead and open up that window. Sometimes, despite what many may think, outside noises, may very well add affects to your work in a positive way, if not even help you focus more on your project. Pretty much you should enjoy the season, while still maintaining a focus on your writing.
Keep coming back for more updates, and more tips for writing/reading over this summer season. Thank you again for the support at Malacast Editorial!
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