By Emily H.

Hey, have you ever felt scared or have anxiety when you’re thinking about the writing process or when writing a story? Well, I’m here to give you some tips to help relieve some stress and make you excited about writing! Here are my go to tips for writing a really powerful story! 

#1: Before you start writing you need to think of a topic. Here’s a tip, you can think of a couple topics because it might be more stressful to think of only one topic.

#2: You need to set the characters and setting. Thinking about real people you know can help and relieve a lot of stress and get really dynamic characters .

#3: Think of the plot. Again, you can take from your own life’s experiences.I have found that some of the best stories are based on real life and real people. 

#4: When drafting, you don’t want to spend a lot of time on capitalization or spelling. Instead, just focus on the story and add as many details as possible.

#5: When you revise and edit, you can scan with your fingers. Scanning for mistakes can help a lot, and reading it out loud to other people or yourself helps.

#6:  When you publish, make sure to be confident when presenting and sharing with friends or family.

I really hope that these tips and steps helped you relieve some stress you may have when writing. Thanks for reading my paragraph about writing.