Angela Booth's Writing Blog: This week's writing technique: clustering

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Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

In "A writing technique a week" I wrote about my new scheme to motivate myself for writing. Last week I chose brainstorming.

This week's technique is clustering.

Clustering is fun to use. I mainly use it to map out all aspects of a project. For example, if I've been commissioned to write a Web sales page, I'll cluster all the information I need to cover, as well as words/ ideas for headlines and bullet points.

Since I use clustering every day anyway, this "clustering week" I'm going to explore clustering in new (new to me, anyway) ways. What ways? I've got no idea. That's the major fun of this writing-technique-a-week plan. You get inspired when you force yourself to discover new ways to do things.

* Find models and create raw material

* Try one word

* Use all of your body and brain to write

* Blink your writing projects

* Creative doodling helps your writing

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