How to think like a writer?

>>10024354
What kind of writer? A woman writer? A Jew writer? A black writer? The white male writer? There are massive differences. Only the last one is interesting and worthwhile. But you have to be born with a rationality and logic that the others can't grasp

>>10024354
>small brain: use made-up sentences
>average brain: follow the teachings of the creative writing 101 class you've taken 10 years ago in community college
>big brain: train yourself to think only in words: write fluidly
>giant brain: train yourself to think only in images, then describe them in words
>infinite brain: paint pictures that convey every possible information about them

>>10024354
Well sometimes in conversation I might hear a certain word that I either have never heard before or rarely ever hear/think of and think "good word..." or hear a saying either I've never heard or VERY rarely ever heard and think "Ooo, that's good, I've got to remember that one." The latest one to make me do that was "heavy lies the crown", I was quite unfamiliar with that saying but I like it. Then there's pleasant spontaneous moments of getting ideas for books, or if you're at a point in a book where you're not sure how to proceed and find yourself with some spare time just waiting for something you might think on the scenario to consider different possibilities. I never leave the house without a pen and a small pocket-sized pad of paper, but to be fair I mostly just use it for making grocery lists. I need to pick up some more bread and rum soon. Crackers and vegetable soup would be good too.

Oh, also, seeking experience. Trying different jobs, even weird ones, like chicken catcher. Trying new things out, seeing new sites, trying new experiences, or seeking out kinds of education that might typically be seen as useless. For instance, I love history, one of my favourite genres is historical fiction, and I wish to write historical fiction eventually, so I'd love to get a degree in history. It would certainly be a good thing to put on my books for marketing too, that I'm an actual professionally-educated historian, even perhaps mentioning what College and/or University I might have gone to.

As for instances that really make me feel like a writer, days when I pump out over 3000 words, or finish writing a scene that I think was PARTICULARLY good. Then there's days when there's a nice jump in sales, or pretty much every time another book is finished, expanding the ol' bibliography. I fucking love that word, it almost gives me a hard-on...