Push Yourself to Grow Your Writing Brain

As a freelance writer, I push myself certain ways.

Sometimes I have to push myself to meet a client's deadline. Often I push my own boundaries by stepping outside my realm of knowledge to work on a new style or genre.

I am a writer. Straight up. I do not know how to program or code, minus how to center images here on Steemit and itlaicize or enlarge text.

A few months ago I decided I was going to turn a book into a game app.

Turning a novel into episodes is strangely difficult work. A book has a Setup, Conflict, and Resolution- a Beginning, a Middle and an End, if you will. To turn it into the game, I am having to make each chapter have a distinct Setup, Conflict and Resolution. Each Episode must stand all on it's own.

Back when Twilight was popular and Fifty Shades was being fan fiction'ed from that, I jumped on the erotic author bandwagon. Being a fairly new writer I had to go where the trend road wound. And at the time erotica was paying quite well.

The demographic was clamoring for 2 men and one woman. Stuff like she's torn between the sexy best nurturing friend guy and the steaming hot mysterious bad boy. So that is the sexy fantasy I created.

I have not written erotica for a while. It sortof fell out and I moved on to other projects. I do write my EveryDay Erotica Episodes here on Steemit, but those, lol, well if you haven't read those give them a try. They are not what you expect- the cliche'd "wait for it" is completely accurate for this series ;)

Sometimes you push yourself to grow as a writer, or because something inspired you, or even to increase your paycheck.

And sometimes a client pushes you in new direction.

Recently a client came to me with a series gig. Basically it is to bring an inanimate object to life. But with a twist.

I am used to and easily able to write erotic scenes between humans. I know the proper verbs, adverbs, adjectives, etc. Now I am totally pushing the boundaries of my mind by not only personifying an inanimate object, but doing so in an erotic way.

It is much more difficult than I had imagined- and I have a terribly overactive imagination! I am giving life and wants and needs to a bot, a bot which is no gender but all genders... Add steamy sex scenes and you have the ultimate pushing of brain boundaries!

It is also the most interesting writing I have had the pleasure of creating. The fact that I have no boundaries in this assignment is going to prove very conducive to both my personal growth, and the growth of the character.

Push yourself! No one is going to do it for you.

Never deny an assignment. If you have a creative mind, which you do or you wouldn't be here on Steemit, you can create anything. You can write anything. Your mind can create worlds.

You mind is a wonderland. A galaxy of ideas intermixed with thoughts and experimental fragments. You can make it happen. Don't be afraid to push yourself and step outside of your comfort zone.

You can weave worlds together and create the impossible.

Happy weekend! Write beautiful :)