Getting writer's block is horrible! Your mind is filled with wonderful ideas for your story but you just can't put it into words. Or your mind is blank with no ideas. If you get writer's block about a scene that you have to write. I suggest go outside and just walk.Walk to the park or down the road but find a quiet place to just collect your thoughts. When you do that the ideas with flow right onto the paper or your computer as you type. Listen to the sounds of nature or the sounds of cars as they pass by. As you go for a walk look closely at everything around you. Notice every detail you can from the petals on the flowers to the leaves on the trees. If you need to write a scene where your characters are in a garden, describe the flowers. If they (your characters) are in a forest write about the detail in the tees and the noises you hear coming from them. But overall when you have writer's block just go to a quiet place: listen and see the world around you.
Don't worry no spoilers for Mockingjay. When we read books, we get so much more detail. When we watch movies, we get the main point of the movie. Take the Hunger Games for example, in the movie we see the point that Katniss is just doing all of this on purpose. Like starting up the rebellion with District 13. When people watch the movie, that haven't read the book, they see a girl that is purposely in a rebellion and a love triangle. In the book, we see that she was just saving her little sister's life and she was caught up in the rebellion. Katniss was doing whatever she could to get back to her family, even if that meant pretending to love someone that she wasn't in love with. By the third book Katniss does seem to love Peeta after all she has been through with him. She was willing to risk her life to save her family and that meant Peeta now too. Katniss in the first book goes without water for days and is possibly in the arena for weeks but in the movie you get the idea that she was only in the arena for a few days. That is why I think reading books is better than watching the movie, even though I have nothing against people who don't like reading. When we watch the movie we get the over all point but reading brings that point into a bigger kind of focus. Kind of like when you watch a movie from far away and then you get closer and are able to see more details.
Pegasus: The Flame of Olympus, by Kate O'Hearn, is an adventure book about a middle school girl, Emily, who one stormy night she hears a loud bang on her roof. When Emily goes up to investigate she meets the legendary Pegasus, a bright white horse with wings. She has to get back to Olympus to help the 12 Olympians defeat one of there greatest enemies, the Nirads. Emily is the only on who can save them along with her best friend Joel, if they are not intercepted by the CRU first. I thought this was a fascinating book about Roman Mythology. It shows that even the most ordinary of people can be one of the most important. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mythology or adventure.
When I read books I feel adventurous and I feel like I'm in the story with them. When the author says a character is clumsy I imagine them falling or when they say they are alert I imagine them looking around with wide eyes. If a story says "Then they did this." and "Then they did that." I find it drab. I use reading as an escape from the world and if it's boring then I don't have a place to escape to. I have a feeling some people also do this too. If not with reading then with something else they are passionate about. When I read, I travel to different worlds with all the different characters. Do you do this too when you read?
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