Storylab: Writing improvements

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For this week's blog I decided to do a story lab over two different articles from the Writers Write Website. These two articles that I chose to read about were "3 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Writing" and "Create Power Paragraphs for Stronger Storytelling." The reason I chose to read these two articles is to help improve my writing skills in general. Writing has not always been my best suite so I would like to improve it any way that I can.

3 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Writing by Anthony Ehlers
This article is about how to get out of that writing slump that happens every so often. Sometimes you will be sitting at your desk and just nothing will help you get a story out on paper. So this article has three useful tips to get out of that. The first useful tip given is to do what they call "Suess it up." By "Suess it up" they me that you should write a fun poem like one of the famous poems by Dr. Suess himself. Writing a fun poem like Dr. Suess will allow your creative juices inside your brain flow and get you ready to that story in no time! The second tip given is to "Rewind and Review." To Rewind and review they suggest you print out the last story you wrote or few pages of the story your continuing and just read them and do some editing. This will give ideas of maybe what you might want to write for you upcoming story. The Third and final tip was called "Dear Me." For this tip it is recommended to grab some paper and to write, draw, or just scribble anything and everything on your mind. This allows you to get rid of any thoughts in your brain that are blocking your writing thoughts from flowing out.

Create Power Paragraphs for Stronger Storytelling by Anthony Ehlers
This article is about turning your regular paragraphs into paragraphs that will give a powerful start to any story. In order to this four type of sentences are focused on which are a dominant sentences, flow sentences, linking sentence, and a call-out sentence. A dominant sentence is the first sentence of the paragraph, and gives off the first impression for the story. This sentence needs to be strong and unambiguous. The flow sentences work with the dominant sentence to make you paragraph come alive. The linking sentence is the end of the paragraph.This sentence should round the ideas of the flowing sentences but without breaking the narrative flow for the next paragraph. Last the call-out sentence is a type of sentence that can stand out on its own. This sentence should catch the eye of the reader and should leave a lasting impact. This are the four type of sentences that are recommended to use in order to improve your paragraphs.

Bibliography: 3 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Writing by Anthony Ehlers
                       Create Power Paragraphs for Stronger Storytelling by Anthony Ehlers