Writing Tip

[ashling]

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thinking maybe I should write today...

Just a hunch!

[Chan790]

2. Might as well write.

I can't do anything else, I pulled my calf and can hardly get out of this chair.

What should I write about?

[kag]

7. How about...

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pulled calves. In fact, that sounds like a title, huh? "Pulled Calves" by Chan790. I'd read that.




On edit...

if it's short.

,,,and funny.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Damn, I so excel in procrastination! n/t

[ashling]

4. Procrastination is in the mind of the beholder

or the becrastinator, as it were, since time and color are merely pigments of our imagination.

Therefor, if a tree falls in your forest get out of the way
and never put off today what you can do tomorrow ... or maybe next week - or was it last weak... er, week.

now my head hurts .. so I'll go back to bed

[TexasTowelie]

5. I'm heading there in about 9 minutes.

[ashling]

6. Good!

at least I know I can go to bed without missing anything new over in the Texas group.

Goodnight.

[classof56]

8. Yes! That sums it up perfectly!

As a writer I say--Write On!

[roguevalley]

9. I write two hours a day and have a story that I have written at least 2500 words a

day every day since november, 2010. Even if you don't type a word, go and sit there every day at the same time. It is a muscle. Exercise it. No excuses short of malaria.

[kestrel91316]

10. A friend is coming over this afternoon. After he leaves I am doing laundry AND

finishing up a little paid project I'm working on.

Even though it's my birthday and I should take the day off. It just doesn't feel like WORK to me when I write. I just typetypetype about stuff I'm an expert in already. And people PAY me. Still shaking my head in amazement about that.

[SheilaT]

11. Sadly, that's true.

When I write regularly, as in every day, it's amazing how much I can accomplish.

My dirty little secret is that I have a job where I can spend at least two of the four hours I'm there writing. I've been working on a novel for almost a year now, and it's coming along quite nicely, thank you. I more or less have the beginning and the middle drafted, but I'm not at all sure how it will end. Eventually it will come to me.

What I'm finding most interesting about this whole process, is just how the novel is coming together. I do go off in directions that won't work, or I realize that I need to make some basic changes in some of what happens, so I have to go back and change some other stuff. But I am having a great time doing it.

I just hope eventually some publisher likes it as well as I do. And of course, the book-buying public.