Write Better, Write Happier...

By HeyMysty

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Enjoy your writing! ☺ 2022. Help from a Watty Award-Winning Author, Wattpad Creator, and long-tenured Senior... More

Why Mysty's Book?
① ✍️ Writing Tip: How To Stay Inspired
② ✍️ Writing Tip: Notice "Was"
③ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Reader Isn't You
④ ✍️ Writing Tip: Finding the Middle Way
💚 Write Happier 💚
⑤ ✍️ Writing Tip: Show, Don't Tell
⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Using Descriptions as Space
⑦ ✍️Writing Tip: The Word:Idea Ratio
⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: Double Justification
⑨ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Gaining a Following
①⓪ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: The Truth About Feedback
①① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Intro to Contests & The Wattys
#1 in Nonfiction - Thank You!
①② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: User Contests and Wattpad Genre Profiles
①③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Naver, Wattpad Stars, Studio, Etc.
①④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Appearances + Blurbs
①⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Cover + Title
💚 Positive Motivation - ☯︎ Yin 🌚
①⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Where You Write Matters
①⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: Editing with Basic Tips
①⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: How to Begin a Book
①⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: Outline Your Story
②⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: "Said" Never Died
②① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Chapter Length, Rankings, and Release Schedules
②② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Keeping Up With Your Release Schedule
②③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Wattpad Burnout
②④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Your Happiness
❤️ More Help! ❤️
②⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Help Books and Advice
②⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Write Stronger Characters
②⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: Write Stronger Characters ❷
②⑧ ✍️Writing Tip: Characters, A Big Entrance
②⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: One Main Character
③⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: POV and The Narrator
③① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Avoid the Mature Rating
③② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Multimedia
③③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Wattpad Friendships
③④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Dealing with People on Wattpad
💚 Meditation For Writing and Wattpad 💚
③⑤ ✍️ Writing Tip: Pacing
③⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Editing, and Giving Your Story Some Space
③⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Art of a Paragraph
③⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Semi-Colon
③⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Ellipsis
④⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Dash, and Read a Book!
💚 You Get Out What You Put In 💚
④① 🧡 Wattpad Help: Getting Others Involved
④② 🧡 Wattpad Help: Getting Others Involved ➋
④③ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Disclaimers, Front Matter, Warnings, etc.
④④ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Copyright
④⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Mirror Sites
④⑥ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Translations
💚 It's Never the End 💚
𝘾 𝙖 𝙡 𝙢 🌼 A Pocket Guide To Breathe Easy
➊ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Writing Poetry
➋ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Thesaurus
➌ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Is It Too Big?
➍ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Perfect Story
➎ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Asking For Follows
➏ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Trying to Surprise the Reader
➐ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Problem with Flashbacks
🧩 Bonus Advisory - You MUST Do This 🧩
➑ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Rich Fictional Settings
➒ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: No Really, When Do I Get Readers?
➊⓿ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Planning Your Story Saves Lives
➊➊ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Writing Drama
💌 Mysty's Mailbox (#1-3)
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💚 Positive Motivation - ☯︎ Yang 🌞

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By HeyMysty

Guiltless, you walk outside into a lovely day. Your story is in your head. Your characters are alive and you want to share them with everyone. You want to make them alive for everyone.

Do you feel like writing right now?

If you do, do.

Sometimes it can feel like you don't have the time to write. You do, though, if you make the time. Although it's not ideal, write in the smallest moments if you must. I used to write waiting for the bus, just right there with my phone on the sidewalk. And I don't even write on my phone! I use paper or my computer.

If you really want to write, you won't be happy until you do so. So think, 'is there something else that I'm doing that doesn't make me as happy, that I could forego?' 'That' might be an extra hour of Netflix or Twitch. 'That' might even be an extra fifteen minutes of studying. I work part-time to pursue a career as an author; I do it because I can still make ends meet, and because I know it's what I really want.

Don't sacrifice what you can't afford to let go, of course. As implied, you have to make ends meet. While it's true you can't buy complete happiness, in this society you can buy (or obtain) the soil for your happiness to flourish. You need security in terms of your finances and your family. So, do what you have to, but just remember: if writing truly does make you happy, as it does for me, you have to write as well.

If you're serious about writing, be sure writing really does make you happy. If you think writing will make you happy by getting you a lot of fame and fortune, it won't. Writing only makes you happy if you love words, if you have words you want to share with people, and if you share those words. For someone whom writing is a real source of happiness: Even if, at the end of this life, you've touched only a few people with your writing, you'll be happy because you did so.


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