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All of the creative writing games, including how to write a family, serve a general purpose. They mean to inspire and engage you with writing creative, descriptive, innovative pieces of work that are uniquely yours. Click for Free Writer's Block Help E-Zine and Free E-Book So, just what do you have to do to to learn how to write a family? First and foremost, you must be versed in the art of character mapping, as knowing the intricacies and idiosyncrasies that define each of your characters and their personalities will be of vast importance as you prepare your very own writing tree. A writing tree is very similar to a family tree. However, the difference lies in the fact that a family tree lists names and relationships, but a writing tree delves into whom each person is, and what their underlying relationships are with all the different people they connect with on a regular or not-so-regular basis. The creative writing game for learning how to write a family plays out like so:
Draw your best tree, with at least seven branches branching off of it. Choose one name to go in the trunk of your tree. This name can be that of a family member, a friend, or it can even be a made-up name of your choosing to get the ball rolling. On each of the seven or more branches, write names of people whom the main character in the trunk of the tree has some sort of relationship with. They may be family, friends, classmates, acquaintances, or just people that main character is passing on the street. You may later decide to write these people into your story as people with whom the main character seemingly had no connection, but they found out they had a mutual friend, or some other interesting and relevant connection.
Your creativity and ingenuity will go into the way you progress in how to write your family. It can be a made-up family, or you may use your own family as a basis for getting started. The relationships and details about people you truly know will be easier to remember and understand. You can then use these notes and details about real people to formulate the characters for your story, or other writing adventure. All of the branches of the tree should relate back to the main person in the trunk of the tree, but interconnections between branches are allowed as well. See how many connections you can make between characters, but focus mainly on that one main character about whom you are trying to convey a story. Then "grow" more and more trees around the main one, and make the branches of one tree turn into the trunks of other trees. By doing so, each subordinate character (or branch, in this case), will be given equal opportunity to grow and engage with other characters until every trunk and every branch of every tree is full of meaning and life. Once you have completed your writing tree and learned how to write a family all your own, you will be ready to transform it all into a story, novel-in-verse, or something else that catches your fancy. Have fun!
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