Daily writing is important to me, but there have been some days when I just haven’t put myself in the seat and started typing. While out walking recently, I tried to figure out the why’s, the reasons for my resistance. It proved to be a useful exercise, so I decided to share my process in […]
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#8 – NaNoWriMo Is Great For Productivity
If you read my post for October, #7 – Looking Forward to NaNoWriMo, you will know that I signed up for NaNoWriMo, the annual writer’s 30-day challenge that runs from 1st to 30th November. I can tell you now that I made the target. I wrote 50,000 words in 30 days. 50,435 to be exact. […]
#5 – Engage With Your Characters
I love the idea of setting my characters loose to figure out the storyline themselves, while I sit at my laptop, fingers poised over the keyboard, ready to type furiously when the action starts. Alas, whenever I’ve employed this tactic, very little has happened. So recently I decided to try something a little different. Instead […]
#4 – Be Prepared When You Sit Down to Write
From a writing perspective, July was a reasonably good month for me. If you read my blog post earlier this month entitled ‘Reboot Your Writing‘, you will know that I was very disappointed with my progress in June. Since that post on 4th of July, I’ve kept a record of my Words Per Day on […]