After an hour or so catching up on posts over at Fangs, Fur & Fey, I was finally ready to dig back into The Book. I'm fast discovering that the reason everyone insists it's critical to write every single day is just as much to keep your head in the story as it is to build discipline and treat writing as the job it will (hopefully!) someday be. This writing-a-few-days-a-week thing just isn't cutting it. It takes me forever to ramp up and even then I usually have to re-read at least a portion of what I previously wrote to get back into the story and voice. Re-reading always causes me to edit, which isn't necessarily bad (and often bolsters my confidence because I'm usually pleasantly surprised to find that what I'm writing isn't total crap) but makes it that much harder for me to turn off the internal editor when it's time to make new words on the rough draft.
Has anyone figured out a way for me to stop sleeping yet? Because that would really solve a lot of my scheduling issues and allow me to write every night and spend time with my husband and dog. Please email me post-haste if you've got it figured out.
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2 comments:
I suggest lots of caffeine if you want to try late nights. :D
And to get decent length blocks of writing time try to schedule it into your weekend. Say, 2 hours every Saturday morning or something. Perhaps before your husband even wakes up. :)
That's it exactly! That's why I write every day. If I don't, I have to spend more than an hour a day re-reading what I wrote last to make sure I'm in the right mind-set to continue.
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