Great video, and great advice. You glanced over some of the best advice I ever got from my psychologist: "Get bored. Turn off your computer, put your phone away, sit in a chair somewhere, and get bored. The creative part of your mind is infinite, but if you want to create things, then you need to spend time there." My favourite quote is a simple one by Miyamoto Musashi: "It will be difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."

Favourite quote of all time from the great King man: “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

I've always taken the back seat on my life: everybody else was first. The itch to write has been there for as long as I can remember. Life has always found its way to make me change my priorities: I've never been one of them for myself. I've tried to change it, and signed up for some creative writing courses where I live. I've learned techniques, a lot about archetypes, character and location sheets, story beats... My mind, though, works the other way around. It likes to simply walk observing in wonder and take note of what it finds. Characters take my hand and show me their world. However, this ends up with a huge, unmanageable mess full of plot holes. I start so many stories, I have so many ideas. I get all my ideas from the small things in life. Whenever I go walking I'm always looking around. Graffitis for example, they hide stories. People that deviate from the norm in their looks. The person that nags a waiter because they're drunk, have an absolute view of the world and _need_ to feel that someone agrees with them, the nasty person that looks above their shouler feeling _more than_. The things that people throws on the floor instead of in trash bins. Why is that object there, why did someone throw that kind of object? In some occasions I've found journals from little ones. From kids. I've rescued them from the garbage they were thrown into. I feed myself from the memories of others. But the only thing I've never managed to learn is: so, how does all of this fit into a story that makes sense? Should I ever try, what am I telling exactly and _how_ do I tell it so _it makes sense for others_? Do I really need to stick to archetypes? Could structure beats somehow help me in deciding how the story unfolds? So far, I only have a bunch of raw material, many ideas, a few flash fiction stories, and nothing else. Whenever I try to write more than three pages, I get stuck. Even more than two pages is difficult. It's not the lack of ideas. It's perhaps not knowing how to structure my life around how to structure another life: the life of my stories. How do we go about that? Perhaps having my desk in a corner helps. Perhaps it's also a metaphor: make yourself unseen so no one will bother you when you need the time to write. Maybe, so?

For me roleplaying games are a great source of inspiration, playing living stories i the moment with friends around the table contributing and keeping surprising. Seeing characters blossom and the story being something that simply emerges there without having to make it happen is an absolute joy. And of course it is a great tool to simply try out ideas that are only half-baked in your head.

I am glad the jail decided to use the Team Edward beanies for body scrubbies. Steven King books. Those are some short ones that will work well for shank armor. If you are running from a guard with a rifle, better stuff a "The Stand" in your shirt. Satire! On the more serious note, whenever I get to the end of a project I get nervous or something, and a lot of times I abandon the project and start another one. That is how I have Two half finished short stories that should have been done already. However I am now 62,500 into a novel and I have it in my head it has to be completed before I do anything else. Plus I can't wait to get into the editing part. That for me is fun.😊

Speaking of King, I've read part of "On Writing" but recently, after reading a bit of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel, "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" I realized that Dick relies on things that other writers, like King, as well as some writing channels, say makes a person's writing "weaker." This is stuff like a)using adverbs, of which Dick uses a lot, almost several each paragraph. Ex. He said sharply. b) He also uses words that other authors and writing channels say are distancing language by using words like feeling or realized. Example, “Okay,” he said, feeling bitter and resentful. c) and he tells a lot as well in his writing, as that example of feeling bitter and resentful shows.He tells feelings instead of showing them in scenes, frequently. His novel is so chock-full of this stuff that it's basically his writing style. Yet, while reading it, I still enjoyed it and was immersed in the story. My question is: is the writing advice from others regarding all this stuff just nitpicking? Are these things simply stylistic preferences? I get that showing at the right moments in a story is important, but the rest of it I'm not quite sure. Philip K. Dick is a legendary writer and seeing him employ these things frequently in a novel that was nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula award makes me wonder if what I heard from other writers is really true that writing this way makes one's writing "weaker." For a sort-of-newbie writer like myself, this stuff gets a bit confusing. What's your opinion about this? Cheers. :)

To many words.better fast going to the point