Write Like Trump

Gotham Writer's Workshop ~ http://www.writingclasses.com

Online or in class in New York ~ Take a writing class with published authors in New York.

Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham Writers' Workshop is the largest and most comprehensive private creative writing school in New York City and online. 

Ten-week and one-day  workshops are offered in more than a dozen forms of writing including fiction writing, screenwriting, nonfiction writing and more.

The school also offers private instruction, script and book doctoring services, workshops for teens, and custom workshops for corporations.

At Gotham, instructors repeat:

 

Write Every Day

• Write every day, even if only for five minutes. Writing is a muscle that must be exercised. And try to write at the same time every day so it becomes a habit, like brushing your teeth before turning in for the night. In fact, writing just before you go to sleep is a good time. Just after waking up is a good time too. Your mind is fresh and clear in the first minutes of morning.

• Write about subject matter that you care deeply about. You should be passionate about your writing. Otherwise, why do it? And you must write about what you know. There are two ways to know something: experience or research. Either way, if you care about your writing, chances are readers will too.

• Write with your ending in mind. Imagine the entire story before you start writing it. Many people have trouble finishing what they begin because they don't consider where their story will end.

• While writing your first draft, allow yourself to be as free as possible. Don't edit while you write. Whatever comes to mind, just write it, even if you might ultimately cut it later. When you write freely, you make associations that you may not otherwise have made. Sometimes you need to write a paragraph or several pages that will eventually be cut in order to get to a wonderful paragraph or line that will be in your final draft.

• Carry a pad around with you. Whenever you are inspired, jot down what's on your mind so you don't forget it. Perhaps it's an idea for a story, a detail you noticed on your way to work, or a piece of dialogue you heard while buying your coffee that made you think, "That's how people really talk." This way, you always have a sheet handy to write down your thoughts.

• Start. If you are intimidated by a blank page, scribble on it. If a blinking cursor on a blank screen is psyching you out, type anything. Just start moving your fingers. Writing is one of life's great pleasures. Most people don't know that because they never had the courage to do it.